The Ideological Work of Philanthropic Myths: A Study of Post-pandemic Disbursement Quota Reforms in Canada

Ahmad, Fahad; Saifer, Adam

doi:10.1007/s11266-023-00628-1

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2023

DOI: 10.1007/s11266-023-00628-1

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The Ideological Work of Philanthropic Myths: A Study of Post-pandemic Disbursement Quota Reforms in Canada

Fahad Ahmad,

Adam Saifer

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The political economy of accountability: Philanthropy’s ‘double dispossession’ of racial justice organizations under racial capitalism

Saifer,

Zanoni

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Prompted by the Black Lives Matter movement, and COVID-19’s deepening of inequalities, philanthropic foundations are increasingly claiming racial justice as a core part of their mission and strategy. This study uses a racial capitalism lens to examine racial justice organizations’ (RJOs) accountability relations towards the philanthropies that fund them. Drawing on interviews with leaders of Canadian RJOs, we unveil how the racial partitioning of leaders, fantasy and partners in these relations materially and symbolically dispossesses RJOs and the communities they represent. Our study complements the extant literature, which focuses on the depoliticization and co-optation effects of RJO–philanthropy accountability relations. Instead, we show how these accountability relations enforce ‘double dispossession’, thereby reproducing the racial capitalist political economy on which philanthropy is predicated. Our analysis indicates that philanthropy for racial justice, as it is currently practised, is impossible. We further identify the conditions under which it could become feasible.

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The Ideological Work of Philanthropic Myths: A Study of Post-pandemic Disbursement Quota Reforms in Canada

Cited by 2 publications

References 38 publications

Impact, Equity, and Philanthropic Foundations: Can Randomized Controlled Trials Help Account for the Democratic Deficit?

Impact, Equity, and Philanthropic Foundations: Can Randomized Controlled Trials Help Account for the Democratic Deficit?

The political economy of accountability: Philanthropy’s ‘double dispossession’ of racial justice organizations under racial capitalism

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