The Violence of Aid? Giving, power and active subjects in One World Conservatism

Joanne Sharp, Patricia Campbell and Emma Laurie

Third World Quarterly, 2010, vol. 31, issue 7, 1125-1143

Abstract: Using Žižek's theorisation of power, we analyse the UK Conservative Party's Green Paper on international development, ‘One World Conservatism’ (OWC). We argue that by placing the West's giving of development aid as something beyond politics, on the moral high-ground of self-evident certainty, it acts to deflect attention from critical engagement with the nature of globalisation, power and aid itself, hiding both economic and epistemological violences behind the apparently benevolent act of giving. An analysis of the nature of the green paper demonstrates the ways in which it draws in UK citizens as active subjects complicit with this vision of the world.

Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2010.518789

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