Academic publications

History of Development

• Escobar, Arturo. 1995. Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
• Gudynas, Eduardo. 2017. ‘Post-Development and Other Critiques of the Roots of Development’. In The Essential Guide to Critical Development Studies, edited by Henry Veltmeyer and Paul Bowles, 1–27. Abingdon: Routledge.
• Kapoor, Ilan. 2008. The Postcolonial Politics of Development. London: Routledge.
• Rist, Gilbert. 2008. The History of Development: From Western Origins to Global Faith. 3rd ed. London: Zed Books.

Theories of Mediated Suffering

• Boltanski, Luc. 1999. Distant Suffering: Morality, Media and Politics. Translated by Graham Burchell. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Chouliaraki, Lilie. 2013. The Ironic Spectator: Solidarity in the Age of Post-Humanitarianism. Cambridge: Polity Press.
• Linklater, Andrew. 2007. ‘Distant Suffering and Cosmopolitan Obligations’. International Politics 44 (1): 19–36.
• Sontag, Susan. 2003. Regarding the Pain of Others. New York: Picador.

Celebrity Humanitarianism

• Brockington, Dan. 2014. ‘The Production and Construction of Celebrity Advocacy in International Development’. Third World Quarterly 35 (1): 88–108.
• Dieter, Heribert, and Rajiv Kumar. 2008. ‘The Downside of Celebrity Diplomacy: The Neglected Complexity of Development’. Global Governance 14 (3): 259–64.
• Goodman, Michael, and Christine Barnes. 2011. ‘Star/Poverty Space: The Making of the “Development Celebrity”’. Celebrity Studies 2 (1): 69–85.
• Littler, Jo. 2008. ‘“I Feel Your Pain”: Cosmopolitan Charity and the Public Fashioning of the Celebrity Soul’. Social Semiotics 18 (2): 237–51.

Organizations and NGO’s

• Manzo, Kate. 2008. ‘Imaging Humanitarianism: NGO Identity and the Iconography of Childhood’. Antipode 40 (4): 632–57.
• Nolan, David, and Akina Mikami. 2013. ‘“The Things That We Have to Do”: Ethics and Instrumentality in Humanitarian Communication’. Global Media and Communication 9 (1): 53–70.
• Orgad, Shani. 2013. ‘Visualizers of Solidarity: Organizational Politics in Humanitarian and International Development NGOs’. Visual Communication 12 (3): 295–314.
• Seu, Irene Bruna, and Shani Orgad. 2017. Caring in Crisis? Humanitarianism, the Public and NGOs. Palgrave Macmillan.

Stereotypes and the Imagery Debate

• Campbell, David. 2011. ‘The Iconography of Famine’. In Picturing Atrocity: Reading Photographs in Crisis, by Geoffrey Batchen, Mick Gidley, Nancy Miller, and Jay Prosser, 79–92. London: Reaktion Books.
• Dogra, Nandita. 2013. Representations of Global Poverty: Aid, Development and International NGOs. London: I.B.Tauris.
• O’Sullivan, Kevin. 2014. ‘Humanitarian Encounters: Biafra, NGOs and Imaginings of the Third World in Britain and Ireland, 1967–70’. Journal of Genocide Research 16 (2–3): 299–315.
• Shohat, Ella, and Robert Stam. 1994. Unthinking Eurocentrism: Multiculturalism and the Media. London ; New York.

Markets, Marketing and Branding

• Biccum, April. 2007. ‘Marketing Development: Live 8 and the Production of the Global Citizen’. Development and Change 38 (6): 1111–26.
• Seu, Irene Bruna, Frances Flanagan, and Shani Orgad. 2015. ‘The Good Samaritan and the Marketer: Public Perceptions of Humanitarian and International Development NGOs’. International Journal of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Marketing 20 (3): 211–25.
• Stride, Helen, and Stephen Lee. 2007. ‘No Logo? No Way. Branding in the Non-Profit Sector’. Journal of Marketing Management 23 (1–2): 107–22.
• Vestergaard, Anne. 2010. ‘Identity and Appeal in the Humanitarian Brand’. In Media, Organisations and Identity, by Lilie Chouliaraki and Mette Morsing, 168–84. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Disaster Relief and Events

• Carrigan, Anthony. 2015. ‘Towards a Postcolonial Disaster Studies’. In Global Ecologies and the Environmental Humanities: Postcolonial Approaches, edited by Elizabeth DeLoughrey, Jill Didur, and Anthony Carrigan, 117–39. New York ; London: Routledge.
• Compton, James R., and Edward Comor. 2007. ‘The Integrated News Spectacle, Live 8, and the Annihilation of Time’. Canadian Journal of Communication 32 (1): 29–53.
• Cottle, Simon. 2014. ‘Rethinking Media and Disasters in a Global Age: What’s Changed and Why It Matters’. Media, War & Conflict 7 (1): 3–22.
• Franks, Suzanne. 2013. Reporting Disasters: Famine, Aid, Politics and the Media. London: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd.

Human Rights Discourse

• Cheah, Pheng. 2007. Inhuman Conditions: On Cosmopolitanism and Human Rights. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
• Dembour, Marie-Bénédicte. 2010. ‘What Are Human Rights? Four Schools of Thought’. Human Rights Quarterly 32 (1): 1–20.
• Mignolo, Walter. 2013. ‘Who Speaks for the “Human” in Human Rights’. In Human Rights from a Third World Perspective: Critique, History and International Law, edited by Jose-Manuel Barreto, 44–64. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
• Moyn, Samuel. 2012. The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History. Cambridge: Belknap Press.

Representing Migration

• Agier, Michel. 2010. ‘Humanity as an Identity and Its Political Effects (A Note on Camps and Humanitarian Government)’. Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development 1 (1): 29–45.
• Chouliaraki, Lilie, Myria Georgiou, Rafal Zaborowski, and Wouter Oomen. 2017. ‘The European “Migration Crisis” and the Media: A Cross-European Press Content Analysis’. London: London School of Economics and Political Science.
• Georgiou, Myria. 2018. ‘Does the Subaltern Speak? Migrant Voices in Digital Europe’. Popular Communication 16 (1): 45–57.
• Nail, Thomas. 2015. The Figure of the Migrant. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press.

Fundraising and Audiences

• Chouliaraki, Lilie. 2006. The Spectatorship of Suffering. London: SAGE Publications.
• Höijer, Birgitta. 2004. ‘The Discourse of Global Compassion: The Audience and Media Reporting of Human Suffering’. Media, Culture & Society 26 (4): 513–31.
• Joye, Stijn, and Johannes von Engelhardt. 2015. ‘Audiences in the Face of Distant Suffering: An Introduction to the Special Issue’. International Communication Gazette 77 (7): 603–6.
• Von Engelhardt, Johannes. 2018. ‘Regarding Distant Suffering: Audience Engagement with Representations of Humanitarian Disaster’. Rotterdam: Erasmus University Rotterdam.