[ecrea] New book - Representations of Global Poverty

*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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