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Women saving the world: Narratives of gender and development on global radio (2022)
Book Chapter
LeRoux-Rutledge, E. (2022). Women saving the world: Narratives of gender and development on global radio. In New mediums, better messages? How innovations in translation, engagement, and advocacy are changing international development. New York: Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198858751.001.0001

Radio has long been used as a tool for development – particularly when promoting gender equality and women’s empowerment – but far more attention has been paid to local community radio than to radio with a global reach. This chapter seeks to understa... Read More about Women saving the world: Narratives of gender and development on global radio.

Narratives (2022)
Book Chapter
LeRoux-Rutledge, E. (2022). Narratives. In The Palgrave Encyclopedia of the Possible (1-7). Palgrave Macmillan (part of Springer Nature). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98390-5_182-1

While many definitions of narrative exist, at its most basic, a narrative is a temporal sequence of events with a plot connecting those events. When we express our identity -- who we are -- we often do so in narrative form, telling a life story that... Read More about Narratives.

How identities and discrimination catalyze global entrepreneurship (2016)
Book Chapter
Ramarajan, L., & LeRoux-Rutledge, E. (2016). How identities and discrimination catalyze global entrepreneurship. In L. M. Roberts, L. P. Wooten, & M. N. Davidson (Eds.), Positive Organizing in a Global Society: Understanding and Engaging Differences for Capacity Building and Inclusion (37-42). New York, NY: Routledge

In this book chapter, Lakshmi Ramarajan, Assistant Professor at Harvard Business School, and Emily LeRoux-Rutledge, PhD candidate at LSE, illustrate that when people resist discrimination by embracing their marginalized identities, it can spur them t... Read More about How identities and discrimination catalyze global entrepreneurship.

“Africa talks climate”: Comparing audience understandings of climate change in ten African countries (2012)
Book Chapter
Godfrey, A., Burton, M., & LeRoux-Rutledge, E. (2012). “Africa talks climate”: Comparing audience understandings of climate change in ten African countries. In I. Volkmer (Ed.), The Handbook of Global Media Research (504-520). Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley-Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118255278.ch29

Summary This chapter contains sections titled: The Case of Africa Talks Climate Climate Change in Africa The Role of the Media Comparative Research: Challenges and Opportunities Why Compare? What to Compare? How to Compare? Common Framin... Read More about “Africa talks climate”: Comparing audience understandings of climate change in ten African countries.