[ecrea] Out in Paperback - Representations of Global Poverty

REPRESENTATIONS OF GLOBAL POVERTY: Aid, Development and International NGOs

By Nandita Dogra

Foreword by Stanley Cohen





Through the efforts of increasingly media-aware NGOs, people in the west 
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 - integrating analyses of the public 
messages of international development NGOs in the UK with 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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‘Dogra makes her challenge both clear and readable and as a starting 
point for future debates on building public understanding of global 
poverty and how it might be tackled, it is an important and 
thought-provoking contribution.’

– PHILIP GODWIN, LSE Review of Books



‘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 (nanditadogra[at]hotmail.com) is a freelance academic. She 
has taught in the Departments of Media & Communications and Social 
Policy at the London School of Economics (LSE), UK. She has been an ESRC 
postdoctoral fellow at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. She holds 
an MSc. in NGO Management and a PhD in Social Policy from the LSE and 
has extensive professional experience in communications, development and 
social policy.



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Paperback | 9781780767734 | £19.99

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The author is available to do guest lectures on topics discussed in her 
book. Please feel free to contact her off-list.




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