The public faces of development: an introduction

Smith, Matt Baillie; Yanacopulos, Helen

doi:10.1002/jid.1118

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“…Studies in the field of media and development have looked to the potential for media and information communication technologies to improve the work of development organisations or to help raise funds and awareness (See, for example, Cecchini and Scott, 2003;Hyden and Leslie, 2003;Smith and Yanacopulos, 2004;Cottle and Nolan, 2007). There has also been a related interest in how newspapers and other media outlets report on development issues and the developing world more generally (See, for example, Bullock et al, 2001;Poland, 2004;Chouliaraki, 2006;Cameron and Haanstra, 2008;Franks, 2008;Fenton, 2010;Thomas, 2011).…”

Section: Mediatisation Ngos and Media And Developmentmentioning

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Looking Good: Mediatisation and International NGOs

Jones

2017

Eur J Dev Res

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Section: Mediatisation Ngos and Media And Developmentmentioning

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Looking Good: Mediatisation and International NGOs

Jones

2017

Eur J Dev Res

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“…Such questions are also evident, and often explicit, in much of the advocacy of a self consciously moral approach to tourism consumption. The way development is presented to the public through the media and in everyday life, a process sometimes referred to as the 'public face of development' (Smith and Yanacopulos 2004), emphasises these personal traits. High profile telethons, charity challenges, Fair Trade and ethical consumption generally are examples of this trend.…”

Section: Care Responsibility and Politicsmentioning

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“…It is a part of the wider advocacy of ethical consumption, a trend that emerged in the 1980s, and has become a focal point for people's attempts to act on development and conservation (Nichols and Opal 2005;Barnett et al 2011). As such it is a significant example of the 'public face of development' (Smith and Yanacopulos 2004) Yet just a generation ago, prior to the pervasive influence of consumer politics, the consumption of holidays seemed problem free -you really could "leave your cares behind". It is doubtful anyone seriously considered their holidays a moral intervention into the world's problems until the 1990s (Butcher 2003).…”

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Ethical tourism and development: the personal and the political

Butcher

2015

Tourism Recreation Research

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Ethical tourism and development: the personal and the politicalOver the last twenty five years ethical tourism has become an important point of reference for social scientists, business specialists, campaigns and significant numbers of ordinary people. Yet just a generation ago, prior to the pervasive influence of consumer politics, the consumption of holidays seemed problem free -you really could "leave your cares behind". Political and moral interventions in society were posed in a different way and within a different context prior to the growth of consumer politics in the 1980s.The rise of and dilemmas associated with ethical tourism tell us more about wider social and political consciousness -simply how people make sense of their place and their possibilities in the worldthan it does about a surfeit of lack of ethical behavior. This paper focuses on the growth of a discourse of qualities such as 'care', 'awareness' and 'responsibility'. It draws on the idea of the private and public sphere to argue that a language of private virtue is substituted for political analysis in the advocacy of ethical tourism. Given ethical tourism's association with development and wellbeing, this in turn reinforces assumptions that are damaging from the perspective of reinvigorating political possibilities and debate on development.

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“…Peloza and Hassay, 2007;Fennis et al, 2009) to the marketing communications of the charities themselves (e.g. Coulter, 1989;Radley and Kennedy, 1997;Bennet, 1998;Smith and Yanacopulos, 2004;Merchant et al, 2010;Mittelman and Neilson, 2011;Neilson and Mittelman, 2012). For example, Mittelman (2011 and2012) have focused on the representational issues faced by development agencies.…”

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“…Bennet, 1998;Smith and Yanacopulos, 2004;Merchant et al, 2010;Mittelman and Neilson, 2011;Neilson and Mittelman, 2012). The celebrification of emotion has recently been analyzed through the lens of celebrity advocacy (e.g.…”

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The spectacularization of suffering: an analysis of the use of celebrities in ‘Comic Relief’ UK’s charity fundraising campaigns

Lim

Moufahim

2015

Journal of Marketing Management

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Use policyThe full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. ABSTRACTIn this paper, we engage with recent charity fundraising campaigns in the UK such as 'Sport Relief' and 'Red Nose Day,' both of which are organized by Comic Relief, an operating British charity. These campaigns are increasingly extreme spectacles of celebrity-suffering that concentrate public attention on the spectacle-image itself rather than on the charities these spectacles espouse. Drawing upon Guy Debord's critique of spectacle and celebrity in Society and the Spectacle, we contend that the phenomenon of celebrity fundraising in this context is interesting not only because of its voyeuristic dimensions (as argued by a number of scholars on celebrity humanitarianism) but also because it raises issues about how the use of highly visual and visceral images of celebrities' suffering has banalized the charitable causes to which they lend their names, often erasing them altogether. Celebrities' suffering in this context is framed by the media both as mega-spectacles of entertainment but also as lavishly-staged journeys of heroism and suffering set apart from the material and social abundance celebrities represent. We demonstrate, using a range of empirical sources from news reports and live TV coverage that when celebrities submit to these extreme journeys of physical suffering, it raises new questions about the moral limits of the marketization of emotion and the commodification of the charitable journey itself.

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The public faces of development: an introduction

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Cited by 60 publications

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Looking Good: Mediatisation and International NGOs

Looking Good: Mediatisation and International NGOs

Ethical tourism and development: the personal and the political

The spectacularization of suffering: an analysis of the use of celebrities in ‘Comic Relief’ UK’s charity fundraising campaigns

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