Campaign Africa: Exploring the Representation of Africa and Its Role in British Identity

• Autores: Graham Harrison
• Localización: The British Journal of Politics & International Relations, ISSN-e 1467-856X, Vol. 15, Nº. 4, 2013, págs. 528-547
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This article explores the way that Africa has been represented within British political modernity through the representations of campaign organisations. Using a model of framing, campaigns are reviewed in terms of the ways that Africa is rendered diagnostically, prognostically and motivationally. In each case, one can identity a �layering� within a single campaign tradition. This tradition is based in a Christian, liberal and humanitarian nationalism that emphasises notions and norms of good Britishness at least as much as it does specific realities in African spaces. As a result, representations of Africa within campaigns are �domesticated� for national consumption. The article concludes by considering the prospects of this tradition in a period when development campaigning has become more globalised.