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Representations of global poverty : aid, development and international NGOs / Nandita Dogra ; foreword by Stanley Cohen.
Lippincott Library HC79.P63 D637 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dogra, Nandita.
- Series:
- Library of development studies (London, England) ; v. 6.
- Library of development studies ; v. 6
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Non-governmental organizations--Developing countries.
- Non-governmental organizations.
- International agencies.
- Nonprofit organizations.
- Developing countries.
- Poverty--International cooperation.
- Poverty.
- Nonprofit organizations--Developing countries.
- International agencies--Developing countries.
- Economic assistance--Developing countries.
- Economic assistance.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 233 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : I.B. Tauris ; New York : Distributed in the United States and Canada by Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
- Contents:
- 1 Introduction 1
- International NGOs and representations 3
- Global poverty, world history and representations of 'Others': Colonialism, Orientalism and Development 9
- Methods and terminologies 17
- Chapter outlines 22
- Part I Difference and Distance
- Introduction 25
- Overview of INGOs' annual messages: 2005/6 27
- 2 Cast of Characters 31
- Innocent children 33
- Deserving 'Third World women' 39
- 'Givers' and 'takers' 57
- Active-Passive 57
- Giver-Receiver 61
- Conclusion 63
- 3 Distant Spaces 64
- Lands of famine and disaster 64
- The rural-urban divide 67
- Conclusion 73
- 4 Global Poverty - Causes and Solutions 74
- Myths of 'internal' causes 75
- Corruption 75
- Overpopulation 78
- Violence 81
- 'External' causes - Mother Nature and medicalisation 82
- Development as easy solutions 87
- Conclusion 92
- Part II Oneness
- Introduction 93
- 5 One Humanity 95
- Humanism and cosmopolitanism 95
- Human rights 103
- Contesting myths - shared histories and structures 108
- Distancing humanity - the power of dualism and fetishism 118
- 6 Uniform First World - NGO Perspectives 125
- A limited debate - the 'negative'/'positive' divide 126
- Institutional isomorphism - professionalisation, marketisation and branding 135
- Decontextualisation and dehistoricisation of messages 140
- One market - cultural or institutional denial? 145
- Conclusion 151
- Part III Reflexivity
- Introduction 155
- 7 Lives of Others - Audience Responses 157
- INGOs and the genre of charity messages 159
- Connecting 'self with 'others' 165
- History, knowledge and emotions 171
- Porous boundaries of personal and collective 177
- Conclusion 183
- 8 Towards Reflexive Understandings 186
- Distant lives, still voices 187
- Implications for NGO management 189
- Beyond 'the human' 191.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781848858916
- 1848858914
- OCLC:
- 757148790
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