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Representations of global poverty : aid, development and international NGOs / Nandita Dogra ; foreword by Stanley Cohen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dogra, Nandita, author.
- Series:
- Library of development studies (London, England) ; v. 6.
- Library of development studies ; v. 6
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Economic assistance--Developing countries.
- Economic assistance.
- International agencies--Developing countries.
- International agencies.
- Non-governmental organizations--Developing countries.
- Non-governmental organizations.
- Nonprofit organizations--Developing countries.
- Nonprofit organizations.
- Poverty--International cooperation.
- Poverty.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (256 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : I.B. Tauris ; New York : Distributed in the United States and Canada by Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "Through the efforts of increasingly media-aware NGOs, people in the west are bombarded with images of poverty and inequality in the developing world. Representations of Poverty is the first comprehensive study of the communications and imagery used by international NGOs to represent the developing world. In this meticulously researched and original book, Nandita Dogra examines the full cycle of representation - integrating analyses of the public messages of international development NGOs in the UK with the views of their staff and audiences. Exploring the Europeanised discourses inherent in appeals to this notion of a 'common humanity', she argues for a greater acknowledgment of NGOs as significant mediating institutions which can expand understandings of global inequalities and their historical causation. The book is a timely addition to the growing fields of development and media studies and will be a key resource for academics, policymakers and practitioners alike who have an interest in global poverty, aid, NGOs, and the politics of representation."--Bloomsbury publishing.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Part I - Difference: People, Spaces and Problems
- Ch. 2 - Cast of Characters
- Ch. 3 - Distant Spaces
- Ch. 4 - Causes and Solutions of Global Poverty Part II - Oneness
- Ch. 5 - One Humanity
- Ch. 6 - Uniform First World Part III - Reflexivity
- Ch. 7 - Connecting with the Lives of Others
- Ch. 8 - Conclusions: Towards Reflexive Understandings
- Annex 1 Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 210-222) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780755620005
- 0755620003
- 9780857722492
- 0857722492
- OCLC:
- 855906950
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