Horizontal development : shifting power and privilege in aid /
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Bristol :
Bristol University Press,
2025.
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Table of 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
- Introduction
- 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
- Introduction
- The standardization of volunteering for development
- Professional volunteers
- Voluntourism
- Rustic Pathways: a cautionary tale
- Conclusion
- 3 Localization and 'Local' Aid
- Introduction
- 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
- Conclusion
- 4 Faith-Based Approaches
- Introduction
- 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
- Conclusion
- 5 Diaspora-Led Development
- Introduction
- 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
- Conclusion
- 6 Transnational Citizen Aid
- Introduction
- Citizen aid as relational
- Case study: pub quizzing for 'Kolkata Cares'
- Citizen aid and inequality
- Conclusion
- 7 Digital Humanitarianism
- Introduction
- Can platforms truly be neutral?
- Digital divides and understanding 'access'
- P2P crowdfunding: horizontal power relations in a digital era
- Conclusion
- 8 Mutual Aid and Solidarity
- Introduction
- Mutuality, NGOs and the state
- Mutual aid in development
- Mutual aid and solidarity in displacement
- Mutual aid in Myanmar
- Conclusion
- Conclusion
- Beyond power and privilege in aid
- References
- Index