New Donors On The Postcolonial Crossroads
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New Donors On The Postcolonial Crossroads
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Author : Profant, Tomáš
language : en
Publisher: kassel university press GmbH
Release Date : 2020-01-20
New Donors On The Postcolonial Crossroads written by Profant, Tomáš and has been published by kassel university press GmbH this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-20 with Political Science categories.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Eastern European countries were said to be playing catch up with the West, and in the field of development cooperation, they were classified as ‘new donors.’ This book aims to problematize this distinction between old and new development donors, applying an East–West dimension to global Orientalism discourse. The book uses a novel double postcolonial perspective, examining North – South relations and East–West relations simultaneously, and problematizing these distinctions. In particular, the book deploys an empirical analysis of a ‘new’ Eastern European donor (Slovakia), compared with an ‘old’ donor (Austria), in order to explore questions around hierarchization, depoliticization and the legitimization of development. This book’s innovative approach to the East–West dimension of global Orientalism will be of interest to researchers in postcolonial studies, Eastern European studies, and critical development studies.
Towards A Collaborative Memory
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Author : Sara Jones
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2022-08-12
Towards A Collaborative Memory written by Sara Jones and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-12 with History categories.
Focusing on the memory of the German Democratic Republic, Towards a Collaborative Memory explores the cross-border collaborations of three German institutions. Using an innovative theoretical and methodological framework, drawing on relational sociology, network analysis and narrative, the study highlights the epistemic coloniality that has underpinned global partnerships across European actors and institutions. Sara Jones reconceptualizes transnational memory towards an approach that is collaborative not only in its practices, but also in its ethics, and shows how these institutions position themselves within dominant relationship cultures reflected between East and West, and North and South.
Institutionalised Dreams
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Author : Elżbieta Drążkiewicz
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2020-01-01
Institutionalised Dreams written by Elżbieta Drążkiewicz and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-01 with Political Science categories.
Using examples from Poland, Elżbieta Drążkiewicz explores the question of why states become donors and individuals decide to share their wealth with others through foreign aid. She comes to the conclusion that the concept of foreign aid requires the establishment of a specific moral economy which links national ideologies and local cultures of charitable giving with broader ideas about the global political economy. It is through these processes that faith in foreign aid interventions as a solution to global issues is generated. The book also explores the relationship linking a state institution with its NGO partners, as well as international players such as the EU or OECD.
European Civil Society And International Development Aid
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Author : Balázs Szent-Iványi
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2022-10-26
European Civil Society And International Development Aid written by Balázs Szent-Iványi and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-26 with Political Science categories.
This book explains how and why European non-governmental development organisations (NGDOs) engage in advocacy towards the European Union (EU). It analyses the heterogenous structure of the sector, with examples ranging from large multinational networks to essentially single person NGDOs. The book provides a detailed map of the topics which have featured in NGDO advocacy since 2006, arguing that NGDOs have generally been reactive in their advocacy towards the EU. The author explains how they have contested a number of policy issues on the agendas of the EU institutions, especially around the diversion of aid to manage migration and leverage private sector investments. Furthermore, some NGDOs have used the COVID-19 pandemic as an opportunity to re-package their pre-existing policy demands. Based on an analytical framework focused around three variables, namely moral vision, funding concerns, and the need to build/maintain a ‘good’ reputation, the book explains these advocacy choices, and argues that much of NGDO advocacy seems to be consistent with funding motivations. The author highlights the importance of moral vision and reputational concerns in moderating how far NGDOs will go with funding-driven advocacy, arguing that motivations need to be looked at in their complexity, and within the specific policy context. Drawing on a range of quantitative and qualitative data sets to provide a rich and varied picture of the advocacy work of European development NGOs, European Civil Society and International Development Aid is a key reference for researchers and practitioners working in the field.
Global Business Cycles And Developing Countries
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Author : Eri Ikeda
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-09-17
Global Business Cycles And Developing Countries written by Eri Ikeda and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-17 with Business & Economics categories.
This book investigates how global business cycles impact the economies of developing countries. Global business cycles, the wave-like movements of economic expansion followed by contraction in aggregate economic activities, impact all economies comprising the global economy. The patterns being shown in developing countries correspond increasingly to those in the global north, and yet there is a relative dearth of studies exploring whether global business cycles exist and how they operate in developing economies. This book explores how cycles operate at the global and sub-global developing country levels, with a particular focus on the level of development and the structure of the economies. Drawing an important distinction between cycles and fluctuations, the book criticises mainstream conceptualisation and identification of cycle phenomena, and instead proposes an alternative conception and methodology for the identification of cycles. Along the way, the book also delves into the manufacturing and rise of China, and other potential competitors in the industrial arena, as increasingly important drivers of global cycles and global economic growth. This book will be an important read for researchers and upper-level students of development economics and international political economy.
Practices Of Citizenship In East Africa
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Author : Katariina Holma
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-11-04
Practices Of Citizenship In East Africa written by Katariina Holma and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-04 with Political Science categories.
Practices of Citizenship in East Africa uses insights from philosophical pragmatism to explore how to strengthen citizenship within developing countries. Using a bottom-up approach, the book investigates the various everyday practices in which citizenship habits are formed and reformulated. In particular, the book reflects on the challenges of implementing the ideals of transformative and critical learning in the attempts to promote active citizenship. Drawing on extensive empirical research from rural Uganda and Tanzania and bringing forward the voices of African researchers and academics, the book highlights the importance of context in defining how habits and practices of citizenship are constructed and understood within communities. The book demonstrates how conceptualizations derived from philosophical pragmatism facilitate identification of the dynamics of incremental change in citizenship. It also provides a definition of learning as reformulation of habits, which helps to understand the difficulties in promoting change. This book will be of interest to scholars within the fields of development, governance, and educational philosophy. Practitioners and policy-makers working on inclusive citizenship and interventions to strengthen civil society will also find the concepts explored in this book useful to their work. The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9780429279171, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license
The Power Of Civil Society In The Middle East And North Africa
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Author : Ibrahim Natil
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-05-24
The Power Of Civil Society In The Middle East And North Africa written by Ibrahim Natil and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-24 with Political Science categories.
This book investigates the power of civil society in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), in the context of the post-Arab Spring era, as well as more long-standing challenges and constraints in the region. In recent years, local civil society actors have faced significant challenges from social conservatism, conflict, violence, and the absence of democracy and exclusive political systems. Over the course of the book, the authors investigate how the sector has succeeded in achieving its own objectives despite these shifting conditions, the restrictive political environment and the complexity of the socio-cultural and economic context. Structured around the three themes of peace-building, development, and change, the book also addresses challenges faced by civil society organizations linked to ethnic, linguistic, and cultural diversities as well as religious salient differences that are crucial markers of social and political identity. Case studies are drawn from the Palestinian Occupied Territories, Jordan, Iran, Nigeria, Niger, Egypt, and Morocco, and particular effort has been made to showcase original research from contributors who are from the region . This book will be of particular interest to researchers working on development, peace-building, conflict resolution, civil society, and politics within the MENA region.
Dilemmas Of Regional And Local Development
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Author : Jerzy Bański
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-02-13
Dilemmas Of Regional And Local Development written by Jerzy Bański and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-13 with Political Science categories.
Dilemmas of Regional and Local Development aims to identify, diagnose and evaluate various approaches towards regional and local socio-economic development. Over the course of the book, authors from 12 countries and four continents come together to review experiences and solutions related to regional development in a range of different economic, social and political systems. The first part of the volume focuses on the fundamentals of planning regional and local development, particularly focusing on theoretical solutions and development policy concepts. The second part is more applied, looking at practical instruments and solutions for shaping the local economy, and analysing effective development policy. This book will be of interest to economics, geography, politics, and planning scholars and researchers working on regional sciences and local development.
Western Aid At A Crossroads
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Author : Øyvind Eggen
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2013-12-13
Western Aid At A Crossroads written by Øyvind Eggen and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-13 with Social Science categories.
The new growth patterns and shifting wealth in the world economy fundamentally alter the basis for Western aid. This book demonstrates how Western development aid has been transformed over time, in particular in the 1990s, when the West enjoyed world hegemony. Western aid, once a helping hand to other countries' development strategies, has increasingly been seen as a tool for large-scale attempts to transform states, societies and minds according to Western models. The authors claim that this has made aid more complex and less useful to poor countries in their fight against poverty. Emerging economies, such as China, have demonstrated that other paths to growth and poverty alleviation are available. They are attractive partners in development, offering collaboration without paternalism. Most poor countries experience growth, and are able to finance development with homegrown resources or in collaboration with non-Western partners. Having other options, they may increasingly challenge and reject Western aid if it is accompanied with goals of transforming the recipients based on Western blueprints. The authors claim that aid has a role in the fight against poverty in the future, but only if Western donors are willing to adapt to the new world order, leave paternalism behind and rethink their role in development. Donors must change the way they relate to poor sovereign states, redefine the meaning of 'development', and reinvent aid to make it simpler and more manageable.
Kritika Rozvoje
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Author : Tomáš Imrich Profant
language : cs
Publisher: Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press
Release Date : 2022-02-01
Kritika Rozvoje written by Tomáš Imrich Profant and has been published by Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-01 with Political Science categories.
Již více než sto let rozvoj pozitivně definuje směřování naší společnosti. Je východiskem, ke kterému odkazují jak globální cíle udržitelného rozvoje, tak lokální rozvojové plány městských čtvrtí. Tato kniha zpochybňuje základní rozvojové myšlenky. Poukazuje na existenci alternativ v dávné minulosti i dnes. Ne vždy lidskému myšlení dominovala představa lineárního pohybu dějin vpřed. Cirkulární pojetí historie nám umožňuje uvědomit si, že je možný jiný způsob myšlení o rozvoji. Rozvoj se jako produkt osvícenství začíná plně projevovat na počátku 20. století během kolonialismu, jehož se stal pevnou součástí. Kniha proto začíná důsledným mapováním této vazby, aby se následně mohla kriticky věnovat jak ideologii, tak praxi rozvoje. Institucionální aparát rozvoje v podobě mezinárodních organizaci, expertů, politiků, technokratů, ale i vládních agentur a nevládních aktérů je zde vnímán jako nástroj vládnutí v zemích globálního Jihu. Jeho základem je rasistické rozdělení na rozvinuté a rozvíjející se země, které do velké míry kopíruje koloniální dělení dle civilizační úrovně. Tak jako koloniální diskurz umožňoval intervenovat ve jménu civilizace, umožňuje rozvojový diskurz intervenci ve jménu rozvoje. Postrozvojový diskurz se však neomezuje na kritiku rozvoje, nabízí i příklady z praxe. Ty představují primárně ekologickou alternativu a víru v možnost nekonečného rozvoje ve smyslu ekonomického růstu nahrazují nerůstem. Postrozvojová perspektiva nachází alternativy i na globálním Jihu v konceptech jako Buen vivir nebo Ubuntu a v praxi mexických Zapatistů a mnohých dalších komunit nebo hnutí. Součástí knihy je i kapitola představující diskusi mezi zastánci postrozvoje a jeho kritiky ze strany obhájců rozvojového aparátu. Tomáš Profant (1983) získal doktorát z politologie na Univerzitě v Kasselu. Je seniorním výzkumným pracovníkem v Centru globální politické ekonomie Ústavu mezinárodních vztahů a jako docent působí na Fakultě sociálních a ekonomických věd Univerzity Komenského v Bratislavě. Mezi jeho odborné zájmy patří mezinárodní politická ekonomie, politická ekologie, globální vzdělávání, rozvojová spolupráce a postkoloniální teorie. V roce 2020 mu vyšla kniha New Donors on the Postcolonial Crossroads: Eastern Europe and Western Aid.