"The text provides advanced undergraduate, and postgraduate, students with an introduction to the key theoretical perspectives in both media theory and development studies. It also brings these two bodies of theory into dialogue with each other, by examining the ways in which both media and...

Education and development a brief history -- Education as an economic investment -- The right to education -- Education and human development -- Education, gender and development -- Education and/as violence -- Education and sustainable development a new development agenda

"The relationship between food and development has always been controversial. Over the last 30 years, development in the north and south has failed to deliver people a decent diet. While some people have too little food and die as a consequence; some people have too much food and die from...