Communication in international development : doing good or looking good? / edited by Florencia Enghel and Jessica Noske-Turner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Enghel, Florencia, editor.

Noske-Turner, Jessica, editor.

Series:

Rethinking development

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic assistance--International cooperation.

Economic assistance.

Economic development--International cooperation.

Economic development.

Physical Description:

xiv, 182 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.

Contents:

Introduction : communication in international development : towards theorizing across hybrid practices / Florencia Enghel and Jessica Noske-Turner

1. A "success story" unpacked : doing good and communicating do-gooding in the Videoletters Project / Florencia Enghel

2. "Doing good" and "looking good" in global humanitarian reporting : is philanthro-journalism good news? / Martin Scott, Kate Wright and Mel Bunce

3. Shifting development discourses in public and in private : the case of the Scotland-Malawi partnership / Ben Wilson

4. Communication about development and the challenge of doing well : donor branding in the West Bank / Karin Gwinn Wilkins

5. Becoming visible : an institutional histories approach to understanding the practices and tensions in communication for development / Jessica Noske-Turner, Jo Tacchi and Vinod Pavarala

6. For celebrity communication about development to do good : reframing purpose and discourses / Lauren Kogen

7. Communication and evaluation : can a decision-making hybrid reframe an age-old dichotomy? / Ricardo Ramírez and Wendy Quarry

8. Communicating development results in an emerging "post-aid" era / Peter da Costa

Epilogue : what's bad about "looking good"? Can it be done better? / Silvio Waisbord.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Communication in international development.

ISBN:

9781138569911

1138569917

9781138569928

1138569925

OCLC:

1019606463