<div dir="ltr"><p><font face="Calibri, sans-serif">This event may be of interest to CSAAers.<br></font></p><p><font face="Calibri, sans-serif">Vera Mackie<br></font></p><p><font face="Calibri, sans-serif">University of Wollongong<br></font></p><p><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><<a href="mailto:vera@uow.edu.au">vera@uow.edu.au</a>></font><br><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"></font>
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<h1 class="entry-title">Popular representations of development: creating global alliances or reproducing inequalities?</h1>
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<p class="gmail-"><strong class="gmail-">The Centre for Critical Human Rights Research</strong><br class="gmail-">
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<p class="gmail-"><strong class="gmail-">Professor Uma Kothari (University of Manchester, UK)</strong><br class="gmail-">
<strong class="gmail-">Room 67.101, 4:30 to 6:00, Thursday 17 November.</strong></p>
<p class="gmail-">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.</p>
<p class="gmail-"><a href="https://www.uowblogs.com/cchrr/files/2016/09/Uma-Kothari-y1lclh.png" rel="attachment wp-att-356" class="gmail-"><img src="https://www.uowblogs.com/cchrr/files/2016/09/Uma-Kothari-y1lclh-300x171.png" class="gmail-size-medium gmail-wp-image-356 gmail-alignnone" alt="Uma Kothari" width="300" height="171"></a></p>
<p class="gmail-"><a href="http://www.manchester.ac.uk/research/uma.kothari" class="gmail-">Uma Kothari</a>
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.</p>
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