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Latency and Crisis: Mutual Aid Activism in the Covid-19 Pandemic
Activists have responded to the Covid-19 pandemic by organizing for mutual aid: creating collective action to meet people’s material needs and build...
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COVID-19, Digital Technologies, and Mutual Aid
COVID-19 set millions of people in motion working to provide practical solidarity and support to vulnerable or isolatedisolated people in local...
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The Failing Aid Complex in Uganda’s Northeast
Every year about thirty billion dollars are spent on aid across Africa, yet recurrent crises followed by a blame game amongst different actors, and a...
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Researching Alongside: Engagements Inside and Outside the Academic Domain—A Look Back at Participatory Research on Mutual Aid
In this chapter, we propose to question the engagement of the researcher from the perspective of citizen participation in social science research. To...
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Foreign Aid, Norm Diffusion, and Local Support for Gender Equality: Comparing Evidence from the World Bank and China’s Aid Projects in Africa
Does foreign aid change local attitudes toward gender equality? Drawing on a theory of norm diffusion through intervention, we contend that when...
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Informally Formal: Women’s Mutual Aid Organizations in the Informal Sector of the Economy
Who is included in civil society metrics? An ethnography of a women’s organization is used to explore the unaccounted—or under-accounted...
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Aid Relationships and Power Dynamics in the Global Fund Grants
This chapter discusses the types of aid relationships formed between stakeholders involved in the Global Fund grants to the Kyrgyz Republic. Building...
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The possibilities and limits of international status: Evidence from foreign aid and public opinion
States use symbolic gestures to increase their international status, or relative po- sition, within the international community. But how do the...
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Migrant Mediators as Promoters of Social Cohesion During the Pandemic: An Analysis of the Mutual Learning Process
After a brief insight into the impact of the health emergency on migrants and a brief description of how the concept of mutual learning can be...
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Aid Relationships and Power Dynamics in the “Community Action for Health” Project
This chapter discusses the types of aid relationships formed between stakeholders involved in the “Community Action for Health” project. Building on...
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Effect of Participation and Alignment on the Sustainability of Development Aid Output: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Uganda
Most aid project output does not last long after the departure of external donors. This inconvenient truth remains unchanged despite the introduction...
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Mutual Aid, Anarchist Preparedness and COVID-19
The focus of this chapter is on mutual aid disaster relief and associated forms of preparedness instantiated by anarchist and allied autonomous...
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Living a Path of Mutual Respect: Technological Stone Ontologies in the Horn of Africa
Boreda Indigenous knowledge prescribed that humans respect all entities with whom they co-inhabit, including stone. Humans, stone, and water’s...
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Coronavirus, Class and Mutual Aid in the United Kingdom
This book considers how the UK government’s response to the recent COVID-19 pandemic disadvantages the working class, and how mutual aid, based on...
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Mutual Benefits: Delving into Leader-Member Exchange (LMX) and Pay Dynamics with Social Exchange Theory
The global workforce, post-COVID-19, grapples with challenges like burnout, high turnover, and pay disparities, intensifying the need for transparent...
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An African Perspective on the Ethics and Politics of Foreign Medical Aid in a Pandemic
This chapter attempts an interrogation of the political and ethical dimensions of foreign medical aid during a pandemic. One of the moral conundrums...
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The Relationship between Aid and Quality of Life
This chapter reviews the current types of aid and looks at how more and more people and organizations are getting involved in aid and philanthropy...
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