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[ecrea] New book - Representations of Global Poverty

Fri Aug 17 20:42:34 GMT 2012


*New Book Publication*

*REPRESENTATIONS OF GLOBAL POVERTY: Aid, Development and International NGOs*

*By Nandita Dogra*

Foreword by Stanley Cohen

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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, much neglected, media role of international NGOs and how they portray the global South. The book examines a full cycle of representation- in addition to the first annual review of recent fundraising and advocacy messages of international NGOs, such as Oxfam, Save the Children, ActionAid, Plan, Christian Aid and War on Want, it also includes the views of their staff and audiences.

The book utilizes an original postcolonial analytical framework to better understand and evaluate NGOs' public messages. Exploring NGO communications across the discourses of charity, justice, humanism, cosmopolitanism, colonialism and Eurocentrism, it argues for a greater acknowledgement of NGOs as significant mediating institutions which can expand understandings of global inequalities.


The book will be a key resource for academics, policymakers and practitioners alike who have an interest in global poverty, development, human rights, aid, NGOs, media and the politics of representation.

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'How exactly do international non-government organisations conceptualise the developing world when they legislate their mandate? This valuable book addresses precisely this question by insightfully and skilfully unearthing the subtext of NGO representations of global poverty, development and rights.'

- Neera Chandhoke, Professor of Political Science, University of Delhi

'This provocative analysis of the visual language of British international non-governmental development organisations raises a set of important and pressing questions, and deserves to be read by practitioner and researcher alike.'

- David Lewis, Professor of Social Policy and Development, London School of Economics

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NANDITA DOGRA is a postdoctoral fellow at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. She holds an MSc. in NGO Management and a PhD in Social Policy from the London School of Economics and has extensive professional experience in development and social policy.

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Hardback | 9781848858916 | £54.50

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