1. Popular Culture and the Representations of Poverty

2. The debate March 5 Celebrity involvement is good for development? Key Arguments FOR? Key Arguments AGAINST?

3. Last lecture What do the fundraising and advocacy messages that International NGOs send out, actually tell us about global poverty? How do they help us to understand and respond to it? How do they influence our understanding?

4. Key issues What is “popular culture” and what is its role in pubic debate and policy decision making? How pop culture represents “poverty” and its implications Why “poverty” – cause or consequences? – An inherent part of society, or the outcomes of policy decision? – Why the poor stay poor? Slumdog Millionaires as a case study

5. Dhavari, Mumbai http://cbschazenstudenttravel.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/dharavi-roof4.jpg

9. ‘what really matters is that this film has focused attention on the poverty that’s so prevalent in this part of the world. This creates a unique opportunity to leverage the success of this Best Picture winner into action... Popular culture has proved an awesome agent of change throughout history... [It] can shock, educate and, yes, even entertain people into taking action for a compelling cause’. Huffington Post, as cited in Sengupta 2010:602

10. Neo-liberalism revisited The ideology of development (William Easterly) The new imperialism “accumulation by dispossession” (David Harvey 1973 ) Urban Bias Thesis – Lipton M. 'Why poor people stay poor: urban bias in world development.'(Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1977)

11. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqAi5KyGWvw

12. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rMPea0lm9U

13. “ The only “answer” to poverty reduction is freedom from being told the answer” Easterly, 2007 http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2007/06 /11/the_ideology_of_development

14. reframe the development debate away from aid and charitable giving towards one focused on global justice and addressing the structural causes of poverty.

15. Neo-liberalism and Poverty

16. Why Poverty Series http://ww3.tvo.org/whypoverty/docs Is poverty simply part of the human condition or is it a social construct, a result of the decisions we make as a society?

17. Why Poverty: Wilbur Sargunaraj http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gklTtzNMNms