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The Production of Geopolitical and Gendered Images through Global Aid Organisations

2007; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 12; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/14650040701546111

1557-3028

Anke Strüver,

Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development

Abstract In looking at micro-mechanisms of the production of regionalisations in global governance discourses, this article argues that definitions of global disparities between regions are an outcome of representations. Against the background of "critical geopolitics" and conceptualising representations as space-producing practices, the contribution examines the ways how global aid organisations (re-)produce regionalisations in their campaigns' spatial representations in relation to images of gender. Since critical geopolitics do not provide a consistent methodical research framework, the article also provides a reflection on interpretative approaches in combination with a poststructuralist background as a methodological guide to study spatial representations. In the last section this is exercised in exemplary fashion on illustrative examples in order to deconstruct dominant mechanisms of territorial differentiation and regional order. Notes 1. See, in overview: M. Albert, P. 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