Institutionalised Dreams - The Art of Managing Foreign Aid

Using examples from Poland, El¿bieta Dr¿¿kiewicz explores the question of why states become donors and individuals decide to share their wealth with others through foreign aid. She comes to the conclusion that the concept of foreign aid requires the establishment of a specific moral economy which links national ideologies and local cultures of charitable giving with broader ideas about the global political economy. It is through these processes that faith in foreign aid interventions as a solution to global issues is generated. The book also explores the relationship linking a state institution with its NGO partners, as well as international players such as the EU or OECD.

List of contents

Introduction

Chapter 1. From Recipient to Donor

Chapter 2. To the West through the East and Back

Chapter 3. Global Education: Discovering Africa for Polish Aid

Chapter 4. Moral Economy of Foreign aid: Religion and Institutions

Chapter 5. The Mission

Chapter 6. Vocation, Profession or Private Enterprise

Chapter 7. The System - The Hope for the Better Future

Conclusion: Institutionalised Dreams

Index

About the author

Elżbieta Drążkiewicz is currently a lecturer at the Institute for Sociology, Slovak Academy of Sciences. She has worked with several Polish development NGOs, as well as with the Solidarity Fund and the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and its Department of Development Cooperation. Her work has appeared in such journals as Human Organization, Focaal, Critique of Anthropology, and Social and Cultural Geography.

Product details

• Authors: Dr&, El¿bieta Dr¿¿kiewicz, Elzbieta Drazkiewicz, Elżbieta Drążkiewicz
• Publisher: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2020
• EAN: 9781789205534
• ISBN: 978-1-78920-553-4
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: EASA Series; Easa
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Philanthropy & Charity, Poland, International Relations, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Political Economy, Social and cultural anthropology, SDG 8