Amateurs without Borders (eBook)

The Aspirations and Limits of Global Compassion

Allison Schnable (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
262 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-97212-4 (ISBN)

Infos

Amateurs without Borders examines the rise of new actors in the international development world: volunteer-driven grassroots international nongovernmental organizations. These small aid organizations, now ten thousand strong, sidestep the world of professionalized development aid by launching projects built around personal relationships and the skills of volunteers. This book draws on fieldwork in the United States and Africa, web data, and IRS records to offer the first large-scale systematic study of these groups. Amateurs without Borders investigates the aspirations and limits of personal compassion on a global scale.

Inhalt

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

Introduction 
1 Origin Stories
2 Who, What, Where? The Projects of Grassroots International NGOs
3 Amateurs without Borders: A Role for Everyday Citizens in Development Aid
4 Provide and Transform: Grassroots INGOs' Models of Aid
5 Resources, Relationships, and Accountability
6 Seen It with Their Own Eyes: Grassroots INGOs' Discourse
7 Networks, Frames, Modes of Action: Roles for Religion
Conclusion: Possibilities and Perils of Amateur Aid 

Appendix 1: Note on Methods 
Appendix 2: Codes Used in Content Analysis
Appendix 3: Grassroots International NGOs in Website Sample
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.2.2021
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• ISBN-10: 0-520-97212-0 / 0520972120
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-97212-4 / 9780520972124