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From Charity to Justice - How NGOs Can Revolutionise Our Response to Extreme Poverty (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
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From Charity to Justice - How NGOs Can Revolutionise Our Response to Extreme Poverty (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
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This book focuses on the ethical demands of extreme poverty and
develops a political theory of practical change. Welding together
political realism and moral aspirations, it argues that a
re-imagined form of development NGO can help the global North break
free from the dominant and persistent charity paradigm and drift
towards a justice-based understanding of extreme poverty. It offers
an original explanation of why the charity paradigm persists and
why the "justice not charity" messages from development NGOs have
changed few minds. The author argues that anyone concerned with a
paradigm shift from charity to justice need to radically rethink
the problem of political communication: who should communicate what
messages about extreme poverty in what ways? Based on a rational
choice critique of the competitive development NGO sector, the
author calls for sector-wide reform and the emergence of a new
political agent - the Avant-garde NGO - which transcends the
charity frame that NGOs currently find themselves locked in.
Further, inspired by literary theory and social psychology, he
offers a fresh account of how the Avant-garde NGO could, through
reflective public engagement, induce attitude change and lead
genuine social and political reform.
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