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

  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 
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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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