1st Edition
The Personal and the Professional in Aid Work
1. Introduction: The Personal and the Professional: Aid workers’ relationships and values in the development process 2. Fellow Travellers in Development 3. Befriending the Field: culture and friendships in development worlds 4. Aid Relations and Aid Legitimacy: mutual imaging of aid workers and recipients in Nepal 5. Professionalisation Trends and Inequality: experiences and practices in aid relationships 6. ‘Living Well’ while ‘Doing Good’? (Missing) debates on altruism and professionalism in aid work 7. ‘Struggling to Do the Right Thing’: challenges during international volunteering 8. Is the Non-unitary Subject a Plausible and Productive Way to Understand Development Bureaucrats? 9. A Moral Economy? Social interpretations of money in Aidland 10. Effective Aid: the poetics of some aid workers’ angles on how humanitarian aid ‘works’
Biography
Anne-Meike Fechter is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Sussex. She has previously studied corporate expatriates (Transnational Lives: Expatriates in Indonesia, 2007); her current work focuses on aid workers as mobile professionals. She is co-editor of Inside the Everyday Lives of Development Workers: The Futures and Challenges of Aidland (2011).
