Patricia Ward
Biographic Data
| ID | 3887648 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patricia Ward |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patricia |
| FAMILY NAME | Ward |
| SIGNATURE | WARD P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Technische Universität Dresden |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6567-7392 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 69 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Where Are Workers? Centring Logistics Labour in Humanitarian Aid Analyses
Scholarship on humanitarian work relations often overlooks the logisticians and related supply chain personnel who strategically plan how to procure, stock and deliver aid to those affected by man-made and natural disasters. Drawing on interviews with ethnographic observations with this critical group of workers, this article shows how centring their backstage labour and workplace experiences expands and disrupts dominant constructions of humanit…
Putting “Us” in Place
This article centers the labor aid workers perform to manage researchers in the humanitarian aid sector in Jordan. It examines how workers move and manage researchers’ bodies (including the author’s) as part of their daily job routines. Drawing from sociological and postcolonial scholarship on labor and the body to document the latter highlights multiple “knowledge producers” that shape and contest data collection in this context. The goal in des…
Beyond the binary
What explains why reductive explanations of social phenomena in the global South persist? This paper addresses this question by considering how researchers' assumptions of their positionality premised upon global North–South explanations of power shape how they collect and determine the scope of their data. Building upon standpoint theory's emphasis of knowledge production as material sites of inquiry, we first consider how researchers' positiona…
Give and Take
As the saying goes, we need to see the forest from the trees.Starting this review with such a cliché seemed only appropriate for a book on foreign aid, a topic that, as its author and many note, is the subject of an overwhelming number of publications.Yet, these texts and the conversations they often elicit have focused on the same questions for too long.That is, whether foreign aid is effective, and if so, how much?Nitsan Chorev's Give and Take:…
The Worth of Their Work
Scholarship on invisible work highlights how volunteers' labour is devalued and obfuscated because it is framed as something 'noneconomic'. This article shows how volunteers' labour is invisible and noneconomic when it is reframed as aid. Drawing upon a case of refugee volunteers in Jordan's humanitarian aid sector highlights how framing work as aid transforms their labour into objects they 'receive' and 'consume' as benefits because 'work' is un…
Capitalising on 'local knowledge
Humanitarian aid stakeholders increasingly call for localisation: to ensure aid projects utilise, and are informed by, local actors and their 'local knowledge'. This article explores what this means in practice. Drawing upon the case of Jordan, a major global aid hub, the author shows how national aid workers' local knowledge is critical for their employers' projects in at least two ways: they work as 'vulnerability finders' to reach communities …
“What Do They Want from Us?”
Stakeholders in the transnational aid sector are increasingly calling for more aid “localization”: relying more on local workers to implement aid projects in their respective home countries. This paper asks: What do aid organizations expect from their local employees, and how do these expectations shape local employees’ work routines? Drawing on data collected from over seven months of fieldwork in Jordan, a major global aid hub, I find that orga…
Continuing Professional Education for the Information Society
Empowerment as Fostering Positive Youth Development and Citizenship
Empowerment emerged as a transactional partnering process between adults and youth
Patient participation in decision-making
The Nature of Pathological Functioning From a Gestalt Perspective
Patient participation in decision-making
Capitalising on 'local knowledge
Humanitarian aid stakeholders increasingly call for localisation: to ensure aid projects utilise, and are informed by, local actors and their 'local knowledge'. This article explores what this means in practice. Drawing upon the case of Jordan, a major global aid hub, the author shows how national aid workers' local knowledge is critical for their employers' projects in at least two ways: they work as 'vulnerability finders' to reach communities …
The Worth of Their Work
Scholarship on invisible work highlights how volunteers' labour is devalued and obfuscated because it is framed as something 'noneconomic'. This article shows how volunteers' labour is invisible and noneconomic when it is reframed as aid. Drawing upon a case of refugee volunteers in Jordan's humanitarian aid sector highlights how framing work as aid transforms their labour into objects they 'receive' and 'consume' as benefits because 'work' is un…
Beyond the binary
What explains why reductive explanations of social phenomena in the global South persist? This paper addresses this question by considering how researchers' assumptions of their positionality premised upon global North–South explanations of power shape how they collect and determine the scope of their data. Building upon standpoint theory's emphasis of knowledge production as material sites of inquiry, we first consider how researchers' positiona…
The Nature of Pathological Functioning From a Gestalt Perspective
Patient participation in decision-making
Empowerment as Fostering Positive Youth Development and Citizenship
Empowerment emerged as a transactional partnering process between adults and youth
Continuing Professional Education for the Information Society
“What Do They Want from Us?”
Stakeholders in the transnational aid sector are increasingly calling for more aid “localization”: relying more on local workers to implement aid projects in their respective home countries. This paper asks: What do aid organizations expect from their local employees, and how do these expectations shape local employees’ work routines? Drawing on data collected from over seven months of fieldwork in Jordan, a major global aid hub, I find that orga…
Capitalising on 'local knowledge
Humanitarian aid stakeholders increasingly call for localisation: to ensure aid projects utilise, and are informed by, local actors and their 'local knowledge'. This article explores what this means in practice. Drawing upon the case of Jordan, a major global aid hub, the author shows how national aid workers' local knowledge is critical for their employers' projects in at least two ways: they work as 'vulnerability finders' to reach communities …
Beyond the binary
What explains why reductive explanations of social phenomena in the global South persist? This paper addresses this question by considering how researchers' assumptions of their positionality premised upon global North–South explanations of power shape how they collect and determine the scope of their data. Building upon standpoint theory's emphasis of knowledge production as material sites of inquiry, we first consider how researchers' positiona…
Give and Take
As the saying goes, we need to see the forest from the trees.Starting this review with such a cliché seemed only appropriate for a book on foreign aid, a topic that, as its author and many note, is the subject of an overwhelming number of publications.Yet, these texts and the conversations they often elicit have focused on the same questions for too long.That is, whether foreign aid is effective, and if so, how much?Nitsan Chorev's Give and Take:…
The Worth of Their Work
Scholarship on invisible work highlights how volunteers' labour is devalued and obfuscated because it is framed as something 'noneconomic'. This article shows how volunteers' labour is invisible and noneconomic when it is reframed as aid. Drawing upon a case of refugee volunteers in Jordan's humanitarian aid sector highlights how framing work as aid transforms their labour into objects they 'receive' and 'consume' as benefits because 'work' is un…
Putting “Us” in Place
This article centers the labor aid workers perform to manage researchers in the humanitarian aid sector in Jordan. It examines how workers move and manage researchers’ bodies (including the author’s) as part of their daily job routines. Drawing from sociological and postcolonial scholarship on labor and the body to document the latter highlights multiple “knowledge producers” that shape and contest data collection in this context. The goal in des…
Where Are Workers? Centring Logistics Labour in Humanitarian Aid Analyses
Scholarship on humanitarian work relations often overlooks the logisticians and related supply chain personnel who strategically plan how to procure, stock and deliver aid to those affected by man-made and natural disasters. Drawing on interviews with ethnographic observations with this critical group of workers, this article shows how centring their backstage labour and workplace experiences expands and disrupts dominant constructions of humanit…
Political science (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Law (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Public relations (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Engineering (3 works) · International Development and Aid (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Religion, Society, and Development (3 works)