Megarhetorics of Global Development, The (Composition, Literacy, and Culture) - Tapa blanda

"This edited volume comes on the scene with a sense of urgency. Through hard-hitting, lucid, yet carefully textured analyses, the authors of these impressive chapters explore rhetoric and economy in development policy, the advertising of multinationals, NGO appeals, documentary filmmaking, and many more sites. Readers will find here provocative critique as well as openings for resistance and creative possibility in the world of transnational capitalism."--Susan C. Jarratt, University of California, Irvine "A progressive and substantial contribution to scholarship in rhetorical studies, The Megarhetorics of Global Development is an analysis of the discourse of global development--'development' in the broadest sense of the term: economic and technological as well as cultural and geopolitical. The chapters in this collection examine the effects and material consequences of the megarhetorics of development as well as the discourse that rhetors and others employ to structure arguments for (and sometimes against) development projects. This is an outstanding contribution to rhetorical studies, and I strongly recommend it to students and scholars of rhetoric. It is likely to open up whole new paths of investigation for future scholars."--Gary A. Olson, Idaho State University This edited volume comes on the scene with a sense of urgency. Through hard-hitting, lucid, yet carefully textured analyses, the authors of these impressive chapters explore rhetoric and economy in development policy, the advertising of multinationals, NGO appeals, documentary filmmaking, and many more sites. Readers will find here provocative critique as well as openings for resistance and creative possibility in the world of transnational capitalism. Susan C. Jarratt, University of California, Irvine" A progressive and substantial contribution to scholarship in rhetorical studies, "The Megarhetorics of Global Development" is an analysis of the discourse of global development development in the broadest sense of the term: economic and technological as well as cultural and geopolitical. The chapters in this collection examine the effects and material consequences of the megarhetorics of development as well as the discourse that rhetors and others employ to structure arguments for (and sometimes against) development projects. This is an outstanding contribution to rhetorical studies, and I strongly recommend it to students and scholars of rhetoric. It is likely to open up whole new paths of investigation for future scholars. Gary A. Olson, Idaho State University" "This edited volume comes on the scene with a sense of urgency. Through hard-hitting, lucid, yet carefully textured analyses, the authors of these impressive chapters explore rhetoric and economy in development policy, the advertising of multinationals, NGO appeals, documentary filmmaking, and many more sites. Readers will find here provocative critique as well as openings for resistance and creative possibility in the world of transnational capitalism." --Susan C. Jarratt, University of California, Irvine "A progressive and substantial contribution to scholarship in rhetorical studies, "The Megarhetorics of Global Development" is an analysis of the discourse of global development--'development' in the broadest sense of the term: economic and technological as well as cultural and geopolitical. The chapters in this collection examine the effects and material consequences of the megarhetorics of development as well as the discourse that rhetors and others employ to structure arguments for (and sometimes against) development projects. This is an outstanding contribution to rhetorical studies, and I strongly recommend it to students and scholars of rhetoric. It is likely to open up whole new paths of investigation for future scholars." --Gary A. Olson, Idaho State University

This volume examines rhetorical strategies used by multinational corporations, NGOs, governments, banks, and others to further their own economic, political, or technological agendas. These wide-ranging case studies employ rhetorical theory, globalization scholarship, and analysis of cultural and historical dynamics to offer critiques of development practices and their material effects.