New Mediums, Better Messages?
How Innovations in Translation, Engagement, and Advocacy Are Changing International
Development
Co-edited by David Lewis, Dennis Rodgers and Michael Woolcock
The notion of development influences and is influenced by all aspects of human life. Social science is but one representational option among many for conveying the ways in which development is conceived, encountered, experienced, justified, courted, and/or resisted by different groups at particular times and places. As international development has become more quantitative and economics-centred, there is an enduring sense that what is measured (and thus “valued” and prioritised) has become too narrow, that the powers of prediction has overreached, and that the human dimension is in danger of being lost. Reflecting this concern, this book contributes to new conversations between science, social science and the humanities around the roles different kinds of knowledge, stories and data play in relation to global development through multidisciplinary representations of development, including music, photography, theatre, radio, video games, blogs and fiction.
Oxford University Press. October 2022. Available in open access.