Un/Making CSC: A Critical Engagement with Communication for Social Changemaking is a research project being undertaken by Dr Jessica Noske-Turner, as part of an Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Early Career Research, Development and Engagement Fellowship (grant number AH/W009242/1).
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Un/Making CSC investigates issues of funding, power, control, autonomy and sustainability in development. Specifically, it examines the implications of growing entrepreneurial discourses and capitalist discourses within communication for social change (CSC), with the overall aim to advance theory and practice on a justice-driven approach to communication for social ‘changemaking’.
The research was undertaken in two distinct sites: youth and girls engagement in Malawi which has historically been reliant on international development funding; and feminist digital justice efforts India, where there are complex tensions being negotiated in terms of funding sources, especially philanthropic funding, and the political principles of the organisation. Find out more about the research questions and approaches.