Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction -- International NGOs and representations -- Global poverty, world history and representations of `Others': Colonialism, Orientalism and Development -- Methods and terminologies -- Chapter outlines -- pt. I Difference and Distance -- Introduction -- Overview of INGOs' annual messages: 2005/6 -- 2.Cast of Characters -- Innocent children -- Deserving `Third World women' -- `Givers' and `takers' -- Active-Passive -- Giver-Receiver -- Conclusion -- 3.Distant Spaces -- Lands of famine and disaster -- The rural-urban divide -- Conclusion -- 4.Global Poverty - Causes and Solutions -- Myths of `internal' causes -- Corruption -- Overpopulation -- Violence -- `External' causes - Mother Nature and medicalisation -- Development as easy solutions -- Conclusion -- pt. II Oneness -- Introduction -- 5.One Humanity -- Humanism and cosmopolitanism -- Human rights -- Contesting myths - shared histories and structures --

Contents note continued: Distancing humanity - the power of dualism and fetishism -- 6.Uniform First World - NGO Perspectives -- A limited debate - the `negative'/`positive' divide -- Institutional isomorphism - professionalisation, marketisation and branding -- Decontextualisation and dehistoricisation of messages -- One market - cultural or institutional denial? -- Conclusion -- pt. III Reflexivity -- Introduction -- 7.Lives of Others - Audience Responses -- INGOs and the genre of charity messages -- Connecting `self' with `others' -- History, knowledge and emotions -- Porous boundaries of personal and collective -- Conclusion -- 8.Towards Reflexive Understandings -- Distant lives, still voices -- Implications for NGO management -- Beyond `the human'.