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Author(s): Silke Roth
ISBN(s): 9780415745925, 0415745926
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 1.30 MB
Year: 2015
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0415745926
ISBN 13: 9780415745925
Author: Silke Roth

This book explores what attracts people to aidwork and to what extent the promises of aidwork are fulfilled. ‘Aidland’ is a highly complex and heterogeneous context which includes many different occupations, forms of employment and organizations. Analysing the processes that lead to the involvement in development cooperation, emergency relief and human rights work and tracing the pathways into and through Aidland, the book addresses working and living conditions in Aidland, gender relations and inequality among aid personnel and what impact aidwork has on the life-courses of aidworkers. In order to capture the trajectories that lead to Aidland a biographical perspective is employed which reveals that boundary crossing between development cooperation, emergency relief and human rights is not unusual and that considering these fields as separate spheres might overlook important connections. Rich reflexive data is used to theorize about the often contradictory experiences of people working in aid whose careers are shaped by geo-politics, changing priorities of donors and a changing composition of the aid sector. Exploring the life worlds of people working in aid, this book contributes to the emerging sociology and anthropology of aidwork and will be of interest to professionals and researchers in humanitarian and development studies, sociology, anthropology, political science and international relations, international social work and social psychology.

The Paradoxes of Aid Work Passionate Professionals 1st Table of contents:

Chapter 1: Mapping Aidland

  • Modernization, Humanitarianism and Development

  • Development Post-Independence

  • Bilateral Organizations

  • Multilateral Organizations

  • Gender and Development

  • The Lost Decade

  • The Rise of NGOs

  • Faith-Based Organizations

  • Complex Emergencies

  • 9/11 and the Global War on Terror

  • Professionalization Processes

  • Buzzwords and Fuzzwords

  • ‘New’ Donors

  • Media Representations and Celebrity Involvement

  • Conclusions

  • Notes

Chapter 2: Theorizing (Aid)Work

  • What is (Aid)Work?

  • Aidwork as a Calling and Vocation

  • Managerialism and Professionalization

  • Mobility and Flexibility

  • Self-Realization, Burnout and Personal Growth

  • Voluntary Risk Taking, Negative Capability, and the Helping Imperative

  • Conclusions

  • Notes

Chapter 3: Entering Aidland

  • Liminality

  • Transnational Experience

  • Inexplicable Attraction

  • Political and Religious Values

  • Crisis and Re-Evaluation of Life

  • Qualifications

  • Language Skills

  • Education and Work Experience

  • Lack of Qualifications and Experience

  • Getting the First Job

  • Volunteering

  • Persistence and Initiative

  • Networks

  • Flexibility

  • Conclusions

  • Notes

Chapter 4: Living and Working in Aidland

  • “It was the Best of Times, it was the Worst of Times”

  • Preparation, Power and Promotion

  • Conflict, Cooperation and Competition

  • Edgework

  • Making a Difference

  • Traumatic Experiences and Psychosocial Support

  • Beyond Tourism

  • What Work–Life Balance?

  • Sex, Romance, Relationships

  • Separate Spheres?

  • Sharing Experiences

  • Conclusions

  • Notes

Chapter 5: Doing Gender in Aidland

  • Familiar Patterns

  • Recruitment and Promotion

  • Gender-Specific Leadership and Work Styles

  • Gender and Culture

  • Conclusions

  • Notes

Chapter 6: Othering and Otherness

  • Hierarchies, Respect and Capacity Building

  • Respecting Local Culture

  • Retreating into the Expat Bubble

  • Encounters with the Local Population

  • Race, Ethnicity and Expatriates

  • Encounters with ‘Beneficiaries’ and ‘Locals’

  • Conclusions

  • Notes

Chapter 7: Should I Stay or Should I Go?

  • Changing Organizations or Assignments

  • Different Forms of Impact

  • Learning and New Challenges

  • Family Planning

  • Leaving Aidland

  • On the Boundaries of Aidland

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