Amateurs without Borders

The Aspirations and Limits of Global Compassion
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-0-520-30095-8
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 262 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 139 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 312 g

Amateurs without Borders examines the rise of new actors in the international development world: volunteer-driven grassroots international nongovernmental organizations. These small aid organizations, now ten thousand strong, sidestep the world of professionalized development aid by launching projects built around personal relationships and the skills of volunteers. This book draws on fieldwork in the United States and Africa, web data, and IRS records to offer the first large-scale systematic study of these groups. Amateurs without Borders investigates the aspirations and limits of personal compassion on a global scale.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schnable, Allison

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik Community Care, Bildung, Freizeit, Freiwilligenarbeit
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Globalisierung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Entwicklungspolitik, Nord-Süd Beziehungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Nichtregierungsorganisation (NGOs)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

Introduction 
1 Origin Stories
2 Who, What, Where? The Projects of Grassroots International NGOs
3 Amateurs without Borders: A Role for Everyday Citizens in Development Aid
4 Provide and Transform: Grassroots INGOs' Models of Aid
5 Resources, Relationships, and Accountability
6 Seen It with Their Own Eyes: Grassroots INGOs' Discourse
7 Networks, Frames, Modes of Action: Roles for Religion
Conclusion: Possibilities and Perils of Amateur Aid 

Appendix 1: Note on Methods 
Appendix 2: Codes Used in Content Analysis
Appendix 3: Grassroots International NGOs in Website Sample
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Allison Schnable is Assistant Professor in the O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University.