Communication in International Development

Florencia Enghel is a Senior Lecturer Fellow at the School of Education and Communication, Jönköping University, Sweden. Jessica Noske-Turner is a Lecturer in Media and Communication at the University of Leicester, UK.

Introduction. Communication in international development: towards theorizing across hybrid practices Florencia Enghel & Jessica Noske-Turner Part I "For" and "about": interrogating practices across domains 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 & 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 Part II What next? Rethinking conventional approaches 5. Becoming visible: an institutional histories approach to understanding the practices and tensions in communication for development Jessica Noske-Turner, Jo Tacchi & 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 & 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