Communication and Development in a Capitalist World

Unmaking and Remaking Sustainability
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-032-98241-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 222 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Rethinking Development

This book argues that communication practices for development and social change are influenced by an underlying, pernicious spirit of capitalism, which intrinsically assumes that capitalism is good for efficient, sustainable development.

Communication is at the frontlines of the mass disruptions occurring across international development funding. This makes it a particularly novel vantage point for analysing tensions and contradictions associated with the shift towards a privatisation of development financing, such as public private partnerships, corporate social responsibility, and social enterprise. Moreover, the same attributes that make communication and storytelling powerful tools of social change see them frequently captured for branding and neoliberal story curation on platforms governed by digital capitalism. Drawing on rich, empirical, poetic data from Malawi and India, this book reclaims the power of storytelling as part of an innovative suite of arts-based, and participatory research methods. The book argues that we need to radically reconceptualise sustainability. Drawing on anticapitalist, feminist and other futures-oriented theories it proposes an imaginative ‘remaking’ to unearth non-capitalist, alternatives.

Offering nuanced, sometimes counter-intuitive insights, this book will be an important read for researchers and students of international development, social change, and communication and media studies. It will also be of interest to communication and development professionals.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Noske-Turner, Jessica

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Innen-, Bildungs- und Bevölkerungspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Sozialpolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Entwicklungsstudien
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Nichtregierungsorganisation (NGOs)
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword(s): Whose agenda are we developing?  Toward a Solidarity of Care and Justice Author’s Preface: On writing about development in Trumpian times  1. The New Spirit of Capitalism in Development: Communication on the Frontlines  Part 1: UnMaking  2. ‘Development is a Giraffe’: The global development funding landscape 3. Uncomfortable Comforts: The paradoxes of corporate social change funding 4. ‘Life is Capital’: the capitalist spin on communication and sustainability  Part 2: ReMaking  5. Envisioning Anty-entrepreneurship  6. Complicating Sustainability: In search of ‘care-full funding’  7. Earthed Communication: Remaking Platformised Social Change  8. Conclusion: They Call It Sustainability  Epilogue  Appendix: Overview of methods, workshops and other data

Über Autor(innen)

Jessica Noske-Turner is a Reader in Communication and Media in the Institute for Creative Futures in at Loughborough University, UK. Her work typically uses participatory action research approaches combined with arts-based creative research methods leading to the co-creation collaborative outputs and impact case studies. Communication for Development in Capitalist World is Dr Noske-Turner’s fourth book. Her work has also appeared in top-ranking journals including International Journal of Communication and Media, Culture and Society.