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[ecrea] Popular representations of development: creating global alliances or reproducing inequalities?

Tue Nov 01 15:38:37 GMT 2016





  Popular representations of development: creating global alliances or
  reproducing inequalities?

*The Centre for Critical Human Rights Research*
*presents a Public Lecture by
*

*Professor Uma Kothari (University of Manchester, UK)*
*Room 67.101, 4:30 to 6:00, Thursday 17 November.*

Most people gain their knowledge about poverty and inequality and other development-related concerns from very public representations of the lives of other people in distant places. Indeed, since the 1980s there has been a vast proliferation of campaigns, charity adverts, musical movements, fair trade marketing, celebrity endorsements, and media promotions to support international development. But do these popular representations of international development concerns, and the diverse public spheres in which engagements with development take place, have the potential to instill ideas of global interconnectedness, produce an ethos of care for distant suffering others and forge new kinds of global alliances? Or do popular, visual images and the increasing involvement of public figures, celebrities and the media reproduce global inequalities, obscure the structural realities of poverty and, rather than forging a common humanity, reinforce hierarchies between people and places? This lecture explores these issues through an analysis of historical and contemporary representations of international development and the use of popular, visual campaigns to strengthen global connections.

Uma Kothari <https://www.uowblogs.com/cchrr/files/2016/09/Uma-Kothari-y1lclh.png>

Uma Kothari <http://www.manchester.ac.uk/research/uma.kothari> is Professor of Migration and Postcolonial Studies and Director of the Global Development Institute in the School of Environment, Education and Development at University of Manchester. Her research interests include international development and humanitarianism and migration, refugees and diasporas. Her research has involved a number of funded projects, most recently an Australian Research Council project on International Volunteering and Cosmopolitanism, and a Norwegian Research Council project on Perceptions of Climate Change and Migration. Her current research is on Visual Solidarity and Everyday Humanitarianism. She has published numerous articles. Her books include Participation: the new tyranny? (2001), Development Theory and Practice: critical perspectives (2001), and A Radical History of Development Studies (2005). She is currently writing a book on Time, Geography and Global Inequalities. She was recently made a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and conferred the Royal Geographical Society’s Busk Medal for her contributions to research in support of global development.

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RSVP: (abrown /at/ uow.edu.au) <mailto:(abrown /at/ uow.edu.au)>



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