Race, Power, and Philanthropy

Exploring the Role of Race in Non-governmental Socioeconomic Interventions: Insights from Makhanda, South Africa

Datos Bibliográficos

ID22335877
AutoresSinazo Nomsenge (0000-0003-4949-039X, University of KwaZulu-Natal, autor de correspondencia)
Año2022
Volumen52
Número1
Páginas58-71
Fecha de publicación2022-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSociety in Transition (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1028-9852 • E-ISSN: 2072-1978
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/21528586.2021.2019610
OpenAlexW4207039529
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas18

Non-governmental socioeconomic intervention exists within a framework and history of racialised proximity to power and privilege. The arrangements of race and power in and beyond the sector along with the inequitable distribution of material and nonmaterial resources have therefore been used to affirm the sector’s affinity to colonial relations of exploitation and racism. This paper recounts the genealogy of this affinity and outlines the ways in which current arrangements of poverty, power and non-state mediation interpolate with the historical arrangements of race and power through non-state interventions. Data collected with non-governmental organisations (NGOs) working in Makhanda in South Africa’s Eastern Cape Province inform the proposition that race and power remain central features of socioeconomic intervention in part, through organisational structures, traditions of engagement with communities, dominant explications of poverty and depictions of “the poor”. The paper concludes that the world and work of NGOs—despite dominant assertions of its independence and neutrality—is inextricably bound to its historical and sociopolitical context and is thus a site wherein race and power are not only present but at play

Colonialism · Geography · Mediation · Political science · Population · Poverty · Psychological intervention · Racism · Social science · Socioeconomic status · Sociology · Demography · Development, Ethics, and Society · Gender Studies · International Development and Aid · Law · Psychology · Religion, Society, and Development