1. Popular Culture - Mass Media

2. Economic Development - Social Aspects

3. Developing Countries

Contents
List of figures and tables x
List of contributors xii
Acknowledgements xv
PARTI Introduction 1
1 Introduction: popular representations of development 3 DAVID LEWIS, DENNIS RODGERS AND MICHAEL WOOLCOCK
PART II Literature and fiction 17
2 The fiction of development: literary representation as a source of authoritative knowledge 19
DAVID LEWIS, DENNIS RODGERS AND MICHAEL WOOLCOCK
3 Notes on teaching international studies with novels: Hard Times, Half of a Yellow Sun and The Quiet
American 38 JOHN HARRISS
4 Considering 'pedagogical' fictions and metanarratives of development: 1 World Manga
VERONICA DAVIDOV 53
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Part III Media and television 71
5 More news is bad news: why studies of 'the public faces of development' and 'media and morality' should be concerned with reality TV programmes 73 MARTIN SCOTT
6 "Hidden in plain sight": Baltimore, The Wire and the politics of under development in urban America 92 SIMON PARKER
Part IV Film 111
7 The projection of development: cinematic representation as an(other) source of authoritative knowledge? 113 DAVID LEWIS, DENNIS RODGERS AND MICHAEL WOOLCOCK
8 Affective histories: imagining poverty in popular Indian cinema 131 ESHA SHAH
Part V Public campaigns 149
9 Visual representations of development: the Empire Marketing Board poster campaign, 1926-1933
151 UMA KOTHARI
10 Band Aid reconsidered: sentimental cultures and populist humanitarianism 174 CHERYL LOUSLEY
Part VI New media 193
11 Blogs + Twitter = Change? Discursive reproduction of global governance and the limits of social media 195 TOBIAS DENSKUS AND DANIEL E. ESSER
12 FollowMe.IntDev.Com: international development in the blogosphere RYANN MANNING
Part VII Conclusion
13 Conclusion: popular representations of development - taking stock, moving forward DAVID LEWIS, DENNIS RODGERS AND MICHAEL WOOLCOCK
Index