Empowerment and the Role of Advocacy in a Globalized World
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12902202 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christine M Koggel (0000-0002-8041-5972, Bryn Mawr College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 8-21 |
| Publication date | 2007-03-30 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethics and Social Welfare (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1749-6535 • E-ISSN: 1749-6543 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17496530701237142 |
| OpenAlex | W2139595105 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 9 |
To understand empowerment, I argue, we need to situate it in a context of the growing impact of economic globalization on groups, communities, countries, and the people in them. I begin by using feminist and postcolonial insights on relations of power at local and global levels to sketch the central concepts of empowerment, advocacy, and globalization. I then use these insights to examine the World Bank's recent work on empowerment. While the World Bank is alert to the complexity of empowerment processes, it ignores the ways in which the local is increasingly being reshaped by features of economic globalization. This lack can be explained by the World Bank's role in the global context, one that assumes that economic globalization can alleviate the disempowerment of “poor people in poor countries”. This position undercuts its claims to advocate for the poor. Its role as advocate is problematic because it fails to attend to relationships at the global level, including relationships it develops with poor people and Third World countries. To give substance to this critique, I discuss work being done by SATUNAMA, a non-profit, non-political organization that advocates for and works to empower people in different regions and sectors of Indonesia
Context (archaeology · Economic growth · Economics · Empowerment · Globalization · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Sociology · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Law · Religion, Society, and Development · Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development
Empowering Children, Disempowering Women
Durable empowerment
Advocacy Networks Through a Multidisciplinary Lens
Why should they listen to me? Developing social work education and social work in Tajikistan
Women Against Children
Ethics and Social Welfare
Policy Narratives and Empowerment
Interiority and government of the child
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,44 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2026 (19) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |