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Inside the Everyday Lives of Development Workers Values, Motives, and Aspirations

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ISBN-10: 1565493249

ISBN-13: 9781565493247

Edition: 2010

Authors: Heather Hindman, Anne-Meike Fechter

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List price: $67.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
Publication date: 3/1/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Anne-Meike Fechter 's early work focused on Euro-American corporate expatriates in South East Asia. The resulting monograph, entitled "Transnational Lives: Expatriates in Indonesia" (Routledge 2007), analyzes Euro-Americans working in Jakarta within the context of transnationalism and globalisation. More recently, she has begun a research project on aid workers as mobile professionals with particular regard to Cambodia, which follows their careers, life courses and experiences of place while on an overseas posting. She is also editor, with Anne Coles, of the volume "Gender and Family among Transnational Professionals" (Routledge 2007), and with Katie Walsh, of a recent special issue of the…    

Introduction
False Binaries: Altruism and Selfishness in NGO Work
Maintaining Independence: The Moral Ambiguities of Personal Relations Among Ghanaian Development Workers
Intercultural Encounters, Colonial Continuities and Contemporary Disconnects in Rural Aid: An Ethnography of Development Practitioners in Madagascar
Orienting Guesthood in the Mennonite Central Committee, Indonesia
Everywhere and Everthrough: Rethinking Aidland
Anybody at Home? The Inhabitants of Aidland
Dealing With Danger: Risk and Security in the Everyday Lives of Aid Workers
The Hollowing Out of Aidland: Subcontracting and the New Development Family in Nepal
Epilogue: Who Is International Aid? Some Personal Observations
Contributors
Index