A Moral Economy? Social interpretations of money in Aidland

Shutt, Cathy

doi:10.1080/01436597.2012.698139

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“…While structural analysis of democracy promotion done by political scholars (Carothers 2009;Pikulik and Bedford 2018) is important, it gives a partial perspective without explaining how subjective choices and strategies animate this structure (Shutt 2012). I strive to rearticulate crit-icism that is sound in the data and turn it toward the eff ects of fi nancial assistance on the protest communities in Belarus.…”

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Belarusian Professional Protesters in the Structure of Democracy Promotion

Minchenia

2020

Conflict and Society

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This article analyzes divisions within Belarusian protest communities by focusing on a particular group: the professional protesters. In Belarus, this group occupies a crucial position in between the international structures of democracy promotion and the internal attempts of political mobilization against the politics of President Aliaksandr Lukashenka. Performativity as an analytical perspective is employed to define positionality of professional protesters in relation to other political subjects and within the system of democracy promotion. The article shows implications of neoliberal rationality for social and political changes for protest communities in Belarus. It argues that the financial assistance obtained by protest professionals, as well as nondemocratic leader ship style of the oppositional leaders, fills the Belarusian protest field with suspicions and accusations, add to a hierarchical and exclusionary way of participation in decision-making, and alienate activists from protest politics.

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Section: "Western Money" In the Construction Of Professional Subjectimentioning

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Belarusian Professional Protesters in the Structure of Democracy Promotion

Minchenia

2020

Conflict and Society

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“…The difference between what I am suggesting and the ways anthropologists have examined moral dilemmas faced by development practitioners is modest, but has critical implications. The anthropology of morality has been generative of ethnographies exploring the competing moral logics that characterize the development arena, and the consequent moral uncertainties and dilemmas faced by aid practitioners (Arvidson ; Fechter ; ; Shutt ), and how these can be generative of new ways of being (Eyben ; Hoffman ; Watanabe ). Much of this literature takes Foucault's (; ) ethics and ‘care of the self’, or Giri and Quarles van Ufford's () normative reading of it, to unravel the reflective practices that aid practitioners do, or should do, as part of their work.…”

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“…Foucault's formulation of ethics has proven useful for understanding the motivations and practices of volunteers and development practitioners (Allahyari 1996;Arvidson 2008;Hoffman 2013;Watanabe 2017). The moral ambiguity that is characteristic of humanitarian and development arenas (Hilhorst & Jansen 2010;Long 2001;Shutt 2012) makes them particularly fecund sites for reflexive practices as part of ethical self-cultivation.…”

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“…I aim to contribute to understandings of the affective dimensions of aid (see Malkki ; Redfield & Bornstein 2010; Schwittay ), and the strategies of developers to be able to continue their work in the face of moral challenges. Rather than examine the ways development practitioners reflect on the moral dilemmas and ambiguities experienced in their work (Arvidson ; Fechter ; Shutt ), I instead focus on the ways volunteers repress doubts, misread situations, and renarrate confronting incidents in order to maintain their durable understanding of the self and protect affective investments in self‐making. The experiences of local development workers and volunteers, embedded within enduring social relations, are distinctly different to those of expat workers (Redfield ).…”

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Being harmed while doing good: affective injuries in a community development programme, Medan, Indonesia

Jakimow

2018

Royal Anthropological Inst

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Complaints, accusations, and failures of gratitude are everyday experiences for volunteers in community‐driven development in Medan, Indonesia. In this article I develop the analytic of ‘affective injury’ to describe the force of such encounters: the sensation of having one's ethical self questioned or put at risk that manifests as an immediate force or lingering hurt. While humanitarian and development workers are all susceptible to affective injuries, I argue that they operate on a different register for developers who belong to, and have an enduring relationship with, the ‘community’. The ways local volunteers respond to, and seek to recover from, affective injuries are distinct from reflective responses to ethical dilemmas. The suppression of, or diversion from, thoughts that could derail self‐understanding is a hindrance to reflexive development practice.

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“…They also define what might be considered good results in a local context, and they impose specific ethical norms on the use of funds. The results can be varying evaluations of the proper allocation for administration, the appropriate standard of living for aid workers, and the resources to be spent on lobbying and educational activities (Fechter 2012;Shutt 2012). Thus, a multitude of moral considerations are involved in the economics of humanitarian assistance, making them a great challenge to account for all along the aid chain.…”

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Accounts along the aid chain: administering a moral economy

Friberg

2015

Journal of Global Ethics

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The purpose of this article is threefold. First, it aims to delineate the flow of resources and the claims on those resources within the humanitarian aid system by locating task structures and functional units across the aid chain. Second, it draws on this account to highlight tensions in the system. Different stations in the organisational process are conditioned by the tasks assigned to them, how those tasks are anchored in a moral economy, and their historical interrelations. Third, it explores how aid organisations are perceived by experts in different parts of the aid chain. Four key agents were invited to recount their work experiences. We then consider how the outlook of the interviewees was shaped by their place in the aid chain. The interviews are an inventory of experiences, a preliminary corroboration of the organisational analysis that preceded them, and a source of future hypotheses.

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A Moral Economy? Social interpretations of money in Aidland

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Belarusian Professional Protesters in the Structure of Democracy Promotion

Belarusian Professional Protesters in the Structure of Democracy Promotion

Being harmed while doing good: affective injuries in a community development programme, Medan, Indonesia

Accounts along the aid chain: administering a moral economy

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