Feb 13
20150
Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Africa Capitalism Colonialism Côte d’Ivoire Doctors Without Borders Fanon Imperialism Jeffrey Sachs Libya paternalism R2P The Virgin Fallacy
"The cover story in The Economist (June 1997) was “Emerging Africa.” It was a classic display of the arrogant paternalism that has come to be the hallmark of the new humanitarianism."
Jan 21
20140
Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex
911 development aid Ecology effeminization environmentalism Humanitarian Intervention Imperialism militarization of anthropology militarization of entertainment media Military Industrial Complex neoliberalism paternalism
"In becoming akin to private, parastatal organizations, NGOs have been presented with multiple crises on which they build themselves further as prostheses of a state-in-absentia. This has caused some to characterize the formation of a new NGO-Industrial Complex where work by charity and aid organizations sometimes resembles profiteering (see Noel, this volume). Lucrative public funds for disaster relief feed the coffers of seemingly countless NGOs which in turn can exacerbate the human suffering of a crisis by providing the illusion of an effective response while in fact doing little to mitigate the suffering of others."