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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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* Explores the social and cultural worlds shaping aid workers and their development practices* Shows how aid workers in the "field" negotiate a variety of often conflicting and contradictory imperatives of the development systemMuch and warranted attention is paid to the lives of aid recipients - their household lives, saving habits, gender relations, etc. It's held that a key to measuring the effectiveness of aid is contained in such details. Rarely, however, is the lens turned on the lives of aid workers themselves. Yet the seemingly impersonal network of agencies and donors that formulate a. |
| 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 Workers. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Non-governmental organizations -- Employees.
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Non-governmental organizations -- Employees. |
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Non-governmental organizations. |
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Charities -- Employees.
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Charities -- Employees. |
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Charities. |
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International relief.
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International relief. |
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Fechter, Anne-Meike.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Hindman, Heather. Inside the everyday lives of development workers. Bloomfield, Conn. : Kumarian ; London : Eurospan [distributor], 2010 9781565493247 (OCoLC)648099552 |
| ISBN |
9781565493889 (electronic book) |
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1565493885 (electronic book) |
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9781565493247 |
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1565493249 |
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1565493230 |
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9781565493230 |
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