Dear Study Group Members,

One of our tribe, Nandita Dogra,  has recently published the following that may be of interest.  A description , link and a discount promotional code can be found below: 

regards
Julian 
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Representations of Global Poverty
Aid, Development and International NGOs
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 developing world. 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. Exploring NGO messages across the discourses of charity, justice, humanism,
cosmopolitanism and Eurocentrism, she argues for a greater acknowledgment of NGOs as significant
mediating institutions which can expand understandings of global inequalities and their historical
causation. The book is a timely addition to the growing fields of development and media studies and
will be a key resource for academics, policymakers and practitioners alike who have an interest in global
poverty, aid, NGOs, and the politics of representation.

Nandita Dogra is a postdoctoral fellow at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. She holds an
MSc. in NGO Management and a PhD in Social Policy from the London School of Economics (LSE),
and has extensive professional experience in development and social policy.

The publisher's link is below -
http://www.ibtauris.com/Books/Reference%20information%20%20interdisciplinary%20subjects/Interdisciplinary%20studies/Development%20studies/Representations%20of%20Global%20Poverty%20Aid%20Development%20and%20International%20NGOs.aspx?menuitem={79234E17-1EF2-405E-83B2-B30EFB60F3A0<http://www.ibtauris.com/Books/Reference%20information%20%20interdisciplinary%20subjects/Interdisciplinary%20studies/Development%20studies/Representations%20of%20Global%20Poverty%20Aid%20Development%20and%20International%20NGOs.aspx?menuitem=%7b79234E17-1EF2-405E-83B2-B30EFB60F3A0>}

30% discount (promotion code 6GD).

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Dr Julian Matthews
Course Director, MSc Media and Communication Research
Department of Media and Communication
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Editor, Sociology Compass
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Convenor, BSA Media Study Group
http://www.britsoc.co.uk/specialisms/Media.htm