Development Made Sexy: how it happened and what it means

John Cameron and Anna Haanstra

Third World Quarterly, 2008, vol. 29, issue 8, 1475-1489

Abstract: This article examines the recent trend among Northern development organisations to represent development as sexy in awareness and fundraising campaigns. The article argues that the ways in which development organisations represent the global South and development work play an important role in the construction of social power relations between people in the global North and the global South. The representation of development as sexy is compared and contrasted to other representations of development that highlight scarcity and deprivation. The article argues that, although the representation of development as sexy avoids portrayals of poor people in the global South as helpless victims, it presents an image of development in which the most important form of agency is Northern charity.

Date: 2008
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