Representations of global poverty : aid, development and international NGOs

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Title:

Author:

Dogra, Nandita.

ISBN:

9781848858916

Personal Author:

Dogra, Nandita.

Publication Information:

London : I.B. Tauris, 2012.

Physical Description:

xxi, 233 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series:

Library of development studies ; v. 6

Library of development studies ; v. 6.

Contents:

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'.

Subject Term:

Non-governmental organizations -- Developing countries.

Poverty -- International cooperation.

Nonprofit organizations -- Developing countries.

International agencies -- Developing countries.

Economic assistance -- Developing countries.

Added Author:

Cohen, Stanley.

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Through the efforts of increasingly media-aware NGOs, people in rich nations are bombarded with images of poverty and suffering. Representations of Global Poverty is the first comprehensive study of the communications and imagery used by international NGOs to represent the global South. In this meticulously researched and original book, Nandita Dogra examines a full cycle of representation âe" integrating analyses of an annual cycle of fundraising and advocacy messages of international development NGOs in the UK with the views of their staff and audiences. Exploring NGO messages across the discourses of charity, justice, humanism, cosmopolitanism, colonialism and Eurocentrism, she argues for a greater acknowledgement of NGOs as significant mediating institutions which can expand understandings of global inequalities. The book is a timely addition to the growing fields of development, media and postcolonial 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.