The Foreign Aid Regime [electronic resource] : Gift-Giving, States and Global Dis/Order /
Furia, A.author.
The author develops an original interpretation of foreign aid by analysing it as a particular domain of international government. She demonstrates how foreign aid practices are contemporary forms of gift-giving that have made recipient countries and populations governable due to a continuously renovated and expanded debt of development.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The author develops an original interpretation of foreign aid by analysing it as a particular domain of international government. She demonstrates how foreign aid practices are contemporary forms of gift-giving that have made recipient countries and populations governable due to a continuously renovated and expanded debt of development.
Introduction -- 1. Foreign Aid Is Gift: Modernising the order; The Maussian gift; Many gifts; Internationalising the gift -- 2. The Foreign Aid Regime: The new name of peace; Development can be developed; Countries and peoples that cannot be trusted; The logic of the gift -- 3. Dis/ordering the World: Conflict, poverty and quasi-states; Cooperation, friendship and justice; Conclusion: playing communitas against immunitas, and the other way round.
Economic policy.
Poverty.
Development economics.
International organization.
Social work.
Political communication.
Development Policy.
Development Aid.
Development Economics.
International Organization.
Social Work.
Political Communication.