IDSC08 Feb. 12, 2013 Representation of "development" by NGOs and what they means in terms of impact and outcomes

1. Representation,
INGOs and the Ethics of
Seeing
IDSC08H3 Feb. 12,
2013

2. House keeping
Self-intro video
Adjusting grade (to 15%)
Film Critique (due Feb. 26)
Please read instructions carefully!!
Sample from past submissions
Major Project
Planning, discussion, annotated bibliography
Adjusting lecture topics
Debate outcomes
Next debate
Online participation – raise issues in readings and relevant
sources

3. Agenda
How is development “represented” ?
By the main stream media
By development agencies
By NGO
Understanding “representation”
Impact of representation and mis-
representation
Ethics of “Seeing”

4. http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/vis/images/?src=4e3c0222/world_newspap
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9. What is “representation”?
How is development “represented”?
By whom, and for whom?
From the National Geographic effect to
the “CNN effect” and “Al-Jazeera
phenomenon”
Description or action?
Performativity: Development as
Representation

10. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTzMsPqssOY

11. Kinds of Representation
Mental
Language
Mental
Visual
Visual Language

12. “Representation is the way in
which MEANING is given to
the things depicted”
Stuart Hall

13. Reception
What influence do
these factors have on
interpreters?
Class
Age
Gender
Ethnicity
Representation as
Process
Class Class
Age Age
Gender Gender
Ethnicity Ethnicity
Production Reference
What part do these What sort of realities
factors play in media are depicted?
production?

14. Representation is dynamic
It Is highly dependent on
historical, social and political
contexts

15. Systems of representation
are the means by which
ideologies are framed
So who is in control of the systems?

16. Media Analysis
“Gap of representation”
"true meaning" and what
the media depicts

17. Online Discussion
Provide an image of “development” from an
iNGO
Analysis the image in terms of the “gap”

18. http://www.ted.com/talks/leslie_dodson_don_t_misrepresent_africa.html