2021
DOI: 10.3390/genealogy5010015
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Evaluation Warriorship: Raising Shields to Redress the Influence of Capitalism on Program Evaluation

Abstract: Evaluation warriorship, as defined by ¡Milwaukee Evaluation! Inc., links the practice of evaluation learning, reflection, and storytelling to the evaluator’s social responsibility as a warrior for justice. Unchecked global capitalism has led to extreme economic and racial injustice, undermined democracies, and accelerated environmental catastrophe. This paper argues that more evaluation warriorship is needed to resist this particular system of oppression. It presents examples of how evaluators reproduce neolib… Show more

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“…Only recently have evaluation scholars such as Robinson (2021aRobinson ( , 2021b started to unpack how neoliberalism has impacted the field, advocating for the development of an anti-capitalist praxis in evaluation, and offering new opportunities for critical systematic reflection. Neoliberalism is "a shorthand for a range of phenomena in the modern era" (Hardin, 2014, as cited in Robinson, 2021a 2), and the term's definition is surrounded by much debate, contestation, and variation (Peck, 2013;Harvey, 2007;Robinson, 2021a).…”
Section: Background: Institutional Histories Of Inequity In Evaluationmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Only recently have evaluation scholars such as Robinson (2021aRobinson ( , 2021b started to unpack how neoliberalism has impacted the field, advocating for the development of an anti-capitalist praxis in evaluation, and offering new opportunities for critical systematic reflection. Neoliberalism is "a shorthand for a range of phenomena in the modern era" (Hardin, 2014, as cited in Robinson, 2021a 2), and the term's definition is surrounded by much debate, contestation, and variation (Peck, 2013;Harvey, 2007;Robinson, 2021a).…”
Section: Background: Institutional Histories Of Inequity In Evaluationmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Only recently have evaluation scholars such as Robinson (2021aRobinson ( , 2021b started to unpack how neoliberalism has impacted the field, advocating for the development of an anti-capitalist praxis in evaluation, and offering new opportunities for critical systematic reflection. Neoliberalism is "a shorthand for a range of phenomena in the modern era" (Hardin, 2014, as cited in Robinson, 2021a 2), and the term's definition is surrounded by much debate, contestation, and variation (Peck, 2013;Harvey, 2007;Robinson, 2021a). For this article, we will not elaborate on these discussions, and instead will draw on Harvey (2007) to summarize neoliberalism as "a theory of political economic practices proposing that human well-being can best be advanced by the maximization of entrepreneurial freedoms within an institutional framework characterized by private property rights, individual liberty, unencumbered markets, and free trade."…”
Section: Background: Institutional Histories Of Inequity In Evaluationmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Since the foundation of development evaluation, there has been a focus on conceptual evaluation use, and how evaluators can facilitate changing the lenses through which programmes are planned, designed and implemented. This can appear in evaluation practice in a range of ways, from challenging neoliberal approaches the public sector may take to service provision to developing process steps that shift leadership in the evaluation process from commissioners of the evaluation to the intended beneficiaries of the programme being evaluated (Robinson 2021).…”
Section: Context Of Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Evaluationmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The development evaluation sector has had long-standing debates around what decoloniality means for the sector (Chilisa & Mertens 2021;Omosa et al 2021). In Africa, this has been because of the neocolonial nature of the development industry in general and what it means for evaluation to operate primarily in this donor-driven context (Auriacombe & Cloete 2019;Robinson 2021). This has made reliable and valid evaluation findings difficult to obtain in a context where evaluation practitioners often know little about the local culture, political system and developmental context within which a programme is being implemented (Tirivanhu & Mapitsa 2019).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%