Inside the everyday lives of development workers : the challenges and futures of aidland /

* 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 recip...

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Other Authors: Fechter, Anne-Meike, Hindman, Heather
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomfield, Conn. : Kumarian ; 2011.
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505 0 |a 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. 
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