<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote">This may be of interest to CSAAers.<br></div></div></blockquote><div>Vera Mackie</div><div>University of Wollongong</div><div><a href="mailto:vera@uow.edu.au">vera@uow.edu.au</a></div><div>--- </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><span class=""><span><header class="m_-449595178759752950m_-3225448444844442093m_-3634063842669701391entry-header"><h1 class="m_-449595178759752950m_-3225448444844442093m_-3634063842669701391entry-title">Popular representations of development: creating global alliances or reproducing inequalities?</h1>
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<p><strong>The Centre for Critical Human Rights Research</strong><span class=""><br>
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<p><strong>Professor Uma Kothari (University of Manchester, UK)</strong><br>
<strong>Room 67.101, University of Wollongong</strong></p></span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div class="m_-449595178759752950m_-3225448444844442093m_-3634063842669701391entry-content"><span><span class=""><p><strong>4:30 to 6:00, Thursday 17 November.</strong></p>
<p>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>
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</span></span><span class=""><span><p><a href="http://www.manchester.ac.uk/research/uma.kothari" target="_blank">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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