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Having people, having heart : charity, sustainable development, and problems of dependence in Central Uganda / China Scherz.
LIBRA HV447 .S34 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Scherz, China, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Charities--Uganda.
- Charities.
- Non-governmental organizations--Uganda.
- Non-governmental organizations.
- Charity.
- Sustainable development.
- Uganda.
- Hope Child (Organization : Uganda).
- Mercy House (Uganda).
- Sustainable development--Uganda.
- Charity--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 170 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2014.
- Summary:
- Believing that charity inadvertently legitimates social inequality and fosters dependence, many international development organizations have increasingly sought to replace material aid with efforts to build self-reliance and local institutions. But in some cultures-like those in rural Uganda-people see this shift not as an effort toward empowerment but as a suspect refusal to redistribute wealth. In Having People, Having Heart, China Scherz travels to Uganda to explore this conflict through detailed studies of two different orphan support organizations. Balancing the negative assessments of charity that have led to this shift with the viewpoints of those who actually receive aid, she offers a sophisticated demonstration of the powerful role that anthropological concepts of exchange, value, personhood, and religion play in the politics of international aid and development. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Introduction: what we are doing here is not charity
- Genealogies: accidental histories of charity, sustainable development, and Kiganda ethics of interdependence
- Waiting: the disappointments of sustainable development
- "Love is the answer": charity and Kiganda ethics of interdependence
- Performance philanthropy: sustainable development and the ethics of audit
- "Let us make God our banker": charity and an ethics of virtue
- Conclusion: the politics and antipolitics of charity and sustainable development.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226119533
- 022611953X
- 9780226119670
- 022611967X
- OCLC:
- 857863453
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