Inside the Everyday Lives of Development Workers
The Challenges and Futures of Aidland
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4956052 |
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| Authors | Thomas Franklin (, New York, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 272-273 |
| Publication date | 2012-04-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | Inside the Everyday Lives of Development Workers: The Challenges and futures of Aidland, A M Fechter, 2011 |
| Venue | Development in Practice (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0961-4524 • E-ISSN: 1364-9213 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09614524.2012.640991 |
| OpenAlex | W1977425147 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
"Inside the Everyday Lives of Development Workers: The Challenges and Futures of Aidland." Development in Practice, 22(2), pp. 272–273
Business · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Ethnology · Futures contract · Political science · Sociology · South asia · Microfinance and Financial Inclusion · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development · Finance
Between threat and infantilisation
You’re juicy
Developmental Knowledge Production in Cambodia
Understanding International Organizations’ Headquarters as Ecosystems
Humanitarian urbanism in a post-conflict aid town
Donors dealing with 'aid effectiveness' inconsistencies
The everyday emotional lives of aid workers
Life in a ‘Peace-kept’ City
How to Translate ‘Good Governance’ into Tajik? An American Good Governance Fund and Norm Localisation in Tajikistan
Transactions and Interactions
When Aidland Becomes Absurdland
(Im)mobile workers
Expert for a day
The Role of Local Staff in the International Organization for Migration (IOM)'S State-Building Work in Djibouti
For the Country, the Corporation and the Métier
Work in crisis
Intervention Gentrification and Everyday Socio-economic Transactions in Intervention Societies
Peacekeeping as Enterprise
When IOM encounters the field
Aid work as edgework – voluntary risk-taking and security in humanitarian assistance, development and human rights work
Linguistic Capital and Inequality in Aid Relations
Affective dimensions of teaching and doing development
Decolonising Southern knowledge(s) in Aidland
Using critical reflection to question self and power in international development
Going Micro
Intervention as a social practice
Aidland in South Asia
Improving the use of history by the international humanitarian sector
Opening Up the “Black Box” of “Volunteering”
Half-Connecting
TED Talks on International Development
Negotiating Gender Relations
Having it all overseas
An excess of goodness? Volunteering among aid professionals in Cambodia
Cambodia – Donor Playground
Re-Proportioning, Re-Framing, Re-Purposing
Gendered and racialized experiences and subjectivities in volunteer tourism
Humanitarian remoteness
Humanitarian capitalism
Reflexive engagements
Passion, paternalism, and politics
Lessons in a bottle
The Art of Reception
What Motivates Young African Leaders for Public Engagement? Lessons from Ghana, Tanzania, and Uganda
The Spectrum of Motivations, Experiences and Attitudes in Technical Development Cooperation
A Quest for State Contracts
Learning’ Development
The moral sense of humanitarian actors
Humanitarians' ethics
Listing for change? Exploring the politics of relief lists in Bangladesh after Cyclone Sidr
Public discourse narratives
The impact of humanitarian context conditions and individual characteristics on aid worker retention
The local labour building the international community
Beyond the looking glass? 'Aidland' reconsidered
Extra-ordinary aid and its shadows
Conservationland
Audit as confession
Moral sentiments in Aidland
Professionalizing Persons and Foretelling Futures
Aid or exploitation
Repopulating Development
Social Media and Global Development Rituals
Humanitarian fables
Civil society knowledge networks
Practising what they preach? Development NGOs and the EU’s Emergency Trust Fund for Africa
Data hubris? Humanitarian information systems and the mirage of technology
Building a humanitarian sector career
What Might International Development Assistance Be Able to Tell Us About Contemporary “Policy Government” in Developed Countries
There Aren't Any Gays Here
Work Opportunities and Organizational Commitment in International Organizations
Local Recruits in Development Finance Institutions
Displaced security? The relationships, routines and rhythms of peacebuilding interveners
Usages du développement
Building Trust, Gaining Truth
The Contingency of Humanitarianism
Expert Ignorance
What Have We Learned?
Exploring the Black Box
Translating religion and development
Vulnerability as ethical practice
The Anthropology of International Development
Commitments of Debt
The Paradoxes of Aid Work
Gender, embodiment and reflexivity in everyday spaces of development in Afghanistan
Sometimes fear gets in all your bones’
| Highly cited | No |
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