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The aid triangle : recognizing the human dynamics of dominance, justice and identity / Malcolm MacLachlan, Stuart C. Carr and Eilish McAuliffe.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- MacLachlan, Malcolm, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Economic assistance--Sociological aspects.
- Economic assistance.
- Economic assistance--Political aspects.
- Economic assistance--Developing countries.
- Economic development--Developing countries.
- Economic development.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (184 p.)
- polychrome.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Distribution:
- [London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021
- Place of Publication:
- London, England : Zed Books, 2010.
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- The Aid Triangle focuses on the human dynamics of international aid and illustrates how the aid system incorporates power relationships, and therefore relationships of dominance. Using the concept of a triangle of dominance, justice and identity, this timely work explains how the experience of injustice is both a challenge and a stimulus to personal, community and national identity, and how such identities underlie the human potential that international aid should seek to enrich. This insightful new critique provides for the reader an innovative and constructive framework for producing more em
- Contents:
- About the authors
- Tables, figures and boxes
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- 1 Oxfamming the world
- 2 Philanthropy vs the generosity of the taxpayer
- The idea of development
- Relational development
- A systems triangle
- Figure 1.1 The aid triangle
- Our approach
- 2 Aid
- The idea of aid
- Table 2.1 Some emphatic and emotive book titles attesting to problemsin international aid
- The political economy of aid
- The new millennium
- Inclusive development
- Conclusion
- 3 Dominance
- Dominance in 'knowing what is best for' development
- It's the contradiction, stupid
- What about the 'underdeveloped' guys?
- No, I'm not going to show you the money!
- Table 3.1 Planning balance sheet for project aid and direct budget support
- Dominance behind insinuations of 'corruption'
- Dominance, governance and the tangle of accountability
- Celebrity as dominance
- Box 3.1 Some thoughts on celebrity and international aid
- Table 3.2 Causes associated with most popular celebrities
- Dominance in organizations
- Dominance in institutions
- Figure 3.1 An inverse resonance effect in Tanzania
- Dominance against individuals
- Figure 3.2 Perceived social dominance in different countries
- The system
- Context
- Socialization
- Expatocracy
- A culture myth
- Dominance is not everything
- 4 Justice
- More corruption
- Types of justice
- Table 4.1 A taxonomy of work justice
- Functionality
- From justice to productivity
- Figure 4.1 Relationship between job satisfaction and managerial consideration
- Figure 4.2 Degree of job satisfaction related to satisfaction with different aspects of the job
- Interventions
- Project aid
- Coping strategies
- Figure 4.3 Theoretical coping strategies in aid projects
- Table 4.2 Items on which pay groups differed
- Box 4.1 Indicative quotes from qualitative research in the Solomon Islands
- 5 Identity
- Soul wounds
- Group identity
- Institutional identity
- Individual identity
- Figure 5.1 Navigating the dynamics of aid and development
- Inclusion
- Exclusion
- Reactance
- Conversion
- Capacity and capability
- Case example
- Case analysis
- Identity and civil society
- Brand aid
- 6 Learning
- Capabilities and justice
- Organizational learning theory
- Table 6.1 A taxonomy of organizational learning
- Table 6.2 Principles to facilitate learning in partnerships
- Box 6.1 Reported Irish NGO activity in Africa, circa 2005
- Recognizing complexity
- 7 Conclusion
- Contemporary grand narratives
- Incremental improvement
- The scale and rate of change
- Personal transformation and the aid triangle
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 154-166) and index.
- Print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9786612738715
- 9781350250925
- 1350250929
- 9781282738713
- 1282738712
- 9781848138353
- 1848138350
- OCLC:
- 662259101
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