Inside the everyday lives of development workers : the challenges and futures of Aidland /

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Fechter and Hindman break new ground by illuminating the social and cultural world of the aid agency, a world that is neglected in most discussions of aid policy. They examine how aid workers' moral beliefs interlink and conflict with their initial motivations, how they relate to aid beneficiar...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Fechter, Anne-Meike, Hindman, Heather
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Sterling, Va. : Kumarian Press, 2011.
Subjects:
Nonprofit organizations > Employees > Case studies.
Social service > Case studies.
Humanitarian assistance > Social aspects > Case studies.
International relief > Social aspects > Case studies.
Associations sans but lucratif > Personnel > Études de cas.
Service social > Études de cas.
Aide humanitaire > Aspect social > Études de cas.
Secours international > Aspect social > Études de cas.
Nonprofit organizations > Employees
Social service
Aid workers
Case studies
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 False Binaries: Altruism and Selfishness in NGO Work
  • 3 Maintaining Independence: The Moral Ambiguities of Personal Relations Among Ghanaian Development Workers
  • 4 Intercultural Encounters, Colonial Continuities and Contemporary Disconnects in Rural Aid: An Ethnography of Development Practitioners in Madagascar
  • 5 Orienting Guesthood in the Mennonite Central Committee, Indonesia
  • 6 Everywhere and Everthrough: Rethinking Aidland
  • 7 Anybody at Home? The Inhabitants of Aidland
  • 8 Dealing With Danger: Risk and Security in the Everyday Lives of Aid Workers9 The Hollowing Out of Aidland: Subcontracting and the New Development Family in Nepal
  • 10 Epilogue: Who Is International Aid? Some Personal Observations
  • Contributors
  • Index
  • A
  • B
  • C
  • D
  • E
  • F
  • G
  • H
  • I
  • J
  • K
  • L
  • M
  • N
  • O
  • P
  • R
  • S
  • T
  • U
  • V
  • W
  • Y

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