Places of Poverty and Powerlessness: INGOs Working ‘At Home’

Susannah Pickering-Saqqa ()
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Susannah Pickering-Saqqa: University of East London

The European Journal of Development Research, 2019, vol. 31, issue 5, No 8, 1388 pages

Abstract: Abstract The search for transformatory development practice, distanced from colonial binaries and representations, has been the focus of decades of scholarship. Recent research suggests that international development non-governmental organisations (INGOs) are central in this regard, whether in their governance, fundraising, advocacy, knowledge-management, engagement with others or approach to programme design. This paper progresses these debates by providing empirical evidence of the value of domestic programming in this ‘project’. Drawing on three case studies, the paper finds evidence of INGOs’ search for a programme strategy, which moves minimising the violence of ‘othering’ from theory to practice. Findings indicate that domestic programmes incorporate dimensions of a development practice, which make visible a theory of poverty as powerlessness, distance it from the violence of ‘othering’ and are grounded in an ethic of ‘everyone matters’. If development practice and intervention design can incorporate these elements, a transformatory, decolonised development practice may be possible.

Keywords: INGOs; Power; Othering; Ethics; Transformation; Decoloniality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1057/s41287-019-00214-6

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