Personal and the Professional in Aid Work

Informationen zum Autor Anne-Meike Fechter is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Sussex. She has previously studied corporate expatriates (Transnational Lives: Expatriates in Indonesia! 2007); her current work focuses on aid workers as mobile professionals. She is co-editor of Inside the Everyday Lives of Development Workers: The Futures and Challenges of Aidland (2011). Zusammenfassung The contributions in this book demonstrate how aid workers’ personal and professional relationships and values influence their perspectives on, and practices of aid, and argue that these need to be taken into account to achieve a more comprehensive understanding of development. This book was published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: The Personal and the Professional: Aid workers' relationships and values in the development process 2. Fellow Travellers in Development 3. Befriending the Field: culture and friendships in development worlds 4. Aid Relations and Aid Legitimacy: mutual imaging of aid workers and recipients in Nepal 5. Professionalisation Trends and Inequality: experiences and practices in aid relationships 6. 'Living Well' while 'Doing Good'? (Missing) debates on altruism and professionalism in aid work 7. 'Struggling to Do the Right Thing': challenges during international volunteering 8. Is the Non-unitary Subject a Plausible and Productive Way to Understand Development Bureaucrats? 9. A Moral Economy? Social interpretations of money in Aidland 10. Effective Aid: the poetics of some aid workers' angles on how humanitarian aid 'works'

Product details

• Authors: Anne-Meike Fechter
• Assisted by: Anne-Meike Fechter (Editor), Fechter Anne-Meike (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.10.2016
• EAN: 9781138209718
• ISBN: 978-1-138-20971-8
• No. of pages: 182
• Series: ThirdWorlds
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disasters & Disaster Relief, PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, Politics & government, Political structure & processes, Social, group or collective psychology, Social welfare and social services, Politics and government, Political structure and processes, Aid and relief programmes