Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/281271 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Publisher: 
Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK
Abstract: 
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 myriad ways in which development is conceived, encountered, experienced, justified, courted, and/or resisted by different groups at particular times and places. This wide-ranging collection from a diverse group of academic and non-academic authors engages with the broad field of development through twelve chapters that deal with music, theatre, fiction, photography, festivals, computer games, the arts, blogging, and other media. It explores three broad areas of alternative forms of knowledge about development, organized around the three themes of 'translation', 'advocacy', and 'engagement'. The first of these is concerned with how popular representations of development can successfully compete with and complement formal social scientific representations; the second relates to the politics of popular representations of development, and the way that popular productions shape debates; and the third asks whether popular representations of development can generate alternative critiques that allow for the articulation of views that would be unacceptable to more orthodox means.
Subjects: 
international development
popular representations of development
culture
translation
advocacy
arts and international development
media and development
development studies
festivals
music
theatre
fiction
photography
computer games
blogging
politics of representation
decolonizing knowledge
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ISBN: 
978-0-19-189088-8
Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Book

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