ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the power of representation in framing how we think about development, where development happens, who ‘needs’ development, and who can deliver this. Building on consideration of the language used to talk about global development, this chapter explores how images and imaginaries are used – and produced – in ways that reinforce a spatiality of popular understandings of global development. From fundraising videos from Oxfam to the role of celebrities in global development, particular geographical representations are created in ways that continue to construct binaries – us and them, developed and underdeveloped.
