Lecture by Professor Uma Kothari
24 Feb 2016
"Is water safer than the land? Public perceptions of Syrian refugees and the power of a warm welcome" on Thursday, 17 March at 6pm for 6.30pm in University Place
Staff, students and alumni are welcome to attend this 'Your Manchester Insights' event.
At present, news bulletins, television documentaries, newspaper articles, radio programmes and forms of social media are debating the 'refugee crisis'. How does this unprecedented media coverage shape our understandings of refugees? How can we interpret and challenge the ideas and meanings that generate powerful, and often negative, connotations around terms such as 'migrant' and 'refugee'.
Professor Kothari will explore how current images and texts of refugees reinforce global inequalities or alternatively might forge new kinds of global alliances.
Professor Kothari is the Managing Director of the Global Development Institute and has spent the last 25 years teaching and researching international development history, theory and practice.
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