Having People, Having Heart: Charity, Sustainable Development, and Problems of Dependence in Central Uganda by Scherz, China

Having People, Having Heart: Charity, Sustainable Development, and Problems of Dependence in Central Uganda

Believing that charity inadvertently legitimates social inequality and fosters dependence, many international development organizations have increasingly sought...
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Author: China Scherz
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Having People, Having Heart: Charity, Sustainable Development, and Problems of Dependence in Central Uganda by Scherz, China

Having People, Having Heart: Charity, Sustainable Development, and Problems of Dependence in Central Uganda

€68,52

Having People, Having Heart: Charity, Sustainable Development, and Problems of Dependence in Central Uganda

€68,52
Author: China Scherz
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Believing that charity inadvertently legitimates social inequality and fosters dependence, many international development organizations have increasingly sought to replace material aid with efforts to build self-reliance and local institutions. But in some cultures--like those in rural Uganda, where Having People, Having Heart takes place--people see this shift not as an effort toward empowerment but as a suspect refusal to redistribute wealth. Exploring this conflict, China Scherz balances the negative assessments of charity that have led to this shift with the viewpoints of those who actually receive aid.

Through detailed studies of two different orphan support organizations in Uganda, Scherz shows how many Ugandans view material forms of Catholic charity as deeply intertwined with their own ethics of care and exchange. With a detailed examination of this overlooked relationship in hand, she reassesses the generally assumed paradox of material aid as both promising independence and preventing it. The result is a sophisticated demonstration of the powerful role that anthropological concepts of exchange, value, personhood, and religion play in the politics of international aid and development.

Author: China Scherz
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 07/04/2014
Pages: 184
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.64lbs
Size: 8.97h x 6.14w x 0.54d
ISBN: 9780226119670

About the Author
China Scherzis assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Virginia."

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