The Paradoxes of Aid Work: Passionate Professionals - Brossura

Libro 4 di 34: Routledge Humanitarian Studies

Roth, Silke

 
9781138200005: The Paradoxes of Aid Work: Passionate Professionals
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ISBN 10: 113820000X ISBN 13: 9781138200005
Casa editrice: Routledge, 2016

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This book explores what attracts people to aidwork and to what extent the promises of aidwork are fulfilled. 'Aidland' is a highly complex and heterogeneous context which includes many different occupations, forms of employment and organizations. Analysing the processes that lead to the involvement in development cooperation, emergency relief and human rights work and tracing the pathways into and through Aidland, the book addresses working and living conditions in Aidland, gender relations and inequality among aid personnel and what impact aidwork has on the life-courses of aidworkers.

In order to capture the trajectories that lead to Aidland a biographical perspective is employed which reveals that boundary crossing between development cooperation, emergency relief and human rights is not unusual and that considering these fields as separate spheres might overlook important connections. Rich reflexive data is used to theorize about the often contradictory experiences of people working in aid whose careers are shaped by geo-politics, changing priorities of donors and a changing composition of the aid sector.

Exploring the life worlds of people working in aid, this book contributes to the emerging sociology and anthropology of aidwork and will be of interest to professionals and researchers in humanitarian and development studies, sociology, anthropology, political science and international relations, international social work and social psychology.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Silke Roth is Associate Professor in Sociology, University of Southampton, UK.

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Editore
Routledge
Data di pubblicazione
2016
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
113820000X
ISBN 13 
9781138200005
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero edizione
1
Numero di pagine
224
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
gpsr@libri.de
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9780415745925: The Paradoxes of Aid Work: Passionate Professionals

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ISBN 10:  0415745926 ISBN 13:  9780415745925
Casa editrice: Routledge, 2015
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