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Horizontal development : shifting power and privilege in aid / Shonali Banerjee, Anne-Meike Fechter and Thabani Mutambasere.
De Gruyter Bristol University Press/Policy Press Complete eBook-Package 2025 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Banerjee, Shonali, author.
- Fechter, Anne-Meike, author.
- Mutambasere, Thabani, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Humanitarian assistance.
- International agencies.
- Non-governmental organizations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (iv, 162 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- Accessible and comprehensive, this book puts forth an innovative perspective on international aid, going beyond top-down attempts to centre local voices and practices.
- Contents:
- Front Cover
- HORIZONTAL DEVELOPMENT: Shifting Power and Privilege in Aid
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Reorienting aid: from vertical to horizontal
- Why horizontal development?
- Power, privilege and decoloniality
- Positionality of the book and authors
- Logic and organization
- 1 South-South Cooperation and Development
- Roots of SSC
- The dynamics of SSC
- SSC: power and privilege among aid workers
- Southern responses to displacement and circuits of education
- South-South education circuits
- Conclusion
- 2 Professional Volunteering and Voluntourism
- The standardization of volunteering for development
- Professional volunteers
- Voluntourism
- Rustic Pathways: a cautionary tale
- 3 Localization and 'Local' Aid
- What does it mean to 'localize' aid?
- Barriers to localization
- Definitions of the local: 'strategic ambivalence'?
- Provincializing humanitarianism and unpacking 'local' aid
- Unpacking 'local aid'
- What constitutes 'local aid'?
- Nan Mu's story
- Starting a new life in the settlement
- Food and community support
- 4 Faith-Based Approaches
- Importance of faith in giving - is it new?
- Value of faith-based approaches to development
- Defining FBOs
- Faith-.based humanitarianism
- Faith-.based giving in action: Zimbabwean Catholics in London
- Muslim charity and humanitarianism
- 5 Diaspora-Led Development
- Understanding diaspora
- Financial remittances and philanthropic transfers
- Social remittances
- Modalities of development
- Hometown associations
- Engagement in homeland civic and political processes
- Case study: Zimbabweans in the UK - the Zimbabwe Citizens Initiative
- Diaspora philanthropy.
- Diaspora humanitarianism
- 6 Transnational Citizen Aid
- Citizen aid as relational
- Case study: pub quizzing for 'Kolkata Cares'
- Citizen aid and inequality
- 7 Digital Humanitarianism
- Can platforms truly be neutral?
- Digital divides and understanding 'access'
- P2P crowdfunding: horizontal power relations in a digital era
- 8 Mutual Aid and Solidarity
- Mutuality, NGOs and the state
- Mutual aid in development
- Mutual aid and solidarity in displacement
- Mutual aid in Myanmar
- Beyond power and privilege in aid
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 12 Sep 2025).
- ISBN:
- 1-5292-2462-4
- 1-5292-2460-8
- 1-5292-2461-6
- OCLC:
- 1524423330
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