| The Aid Triangle: Recognizing the Human Dynamics of Dominance, Justice and Identity Contributor(s): MacLachlan, Malcolm (Author), Carr, Stuart (Author), McAuliffe, Eilish (Author) |
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ISBN: 1842779117 ISBN-13: 9781842779118 Publisher: Zed Books OUR PRICE: $40.54 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2009 Annotation: This book focuses on the human dynamics of the myriad relationships underlying international aid; from impoverished farmers to aid workers; donor diplomats to multilateral beaurocrats; celebrities to activists, and to the unconcerned and uninvolved. This book illustrates how the aid system incorporates power relationships, and therefore relationships of dominance. It explores how such dominance can be both a cause and a consequence of injustice. It explains how the experience of injustice is both a challenge to, and a stimulus to, personal, community and national identity, and how such identities underlie the human potential that international aid should seek to enrich. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Social Psychology - Business & Economics | Development - Economic Development - Social Science | Sociology - General |
| Dewey: 338.900 |
| Series: Development Studies Association |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.5" W x 8.4" (0.55 lbs) 184 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Aid Triangle focuses on the human dynamics of international aid and illustrates how the aid system incorporates power relationships, and therefore relationships of dominance. Using the concept of a triangle of dominance, justice and identity, this timely work explains how the experience of injustice is both a challenge and a stimulus to personal, community and national identity, and how such identities underlie the human potential that international aid should seek to enrich. This insightful new critique provides for the reader an innovative and constructive framework for producing more empowering and more effective aid. |