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.

Rebecca Dingo is an assistant professor in the Department of English and the Department of Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Missouri. She is the coeditor of The Megarhetorics of Global Development.