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 viii Contents 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