Overview
Provides a systematic analysis of the ideas of charity and justice
Overviews major positions in the global justice debate on extreme poverty
Gives an insightful critique of the charity-centred approach of development NGOs
Imagines a new form of NGO and a novel way of public engagement
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Extreme Poverty
- Development
- Non Government Organisations
- NGOs
- NGOs and Charity
- NGOs and Justice
- Political Communication
- NGOs and Political Theory
- Avant-garde NGO
- NGOs and Public Engagement
- INGOs’ Public Engagement
- INGOs and the Cosmopolitan Agency Gap
- Motivational Gap to the Agency Gap
- Moral Demands of Extreme Poverty
- Poverty and the Global north
About this book
This book focuses on the ethical demands of extreme poverty and develops a political theory of practical change. Welding together political realism and moral aspirations, it argues that a re-imagined form of development NGO can help the global North break free from the dominant and persistent charity paradigm and drift towards a justice-based understanding of extreme poverty. It offers an original explanation of why the charity paradigm persists and why the “justice not charity” messages from development NGOs have changed few minds. The author argues that anyone concerned with a paradigm shift from charity to justice need to radically rethink the problem of political communication: who should communicate what messages about extreme poverty in what ways?
Based on a rational choice critique of the competitive development NGO sector, the author calls for sector-wide reform and the emergence of a new political agent – the Avant-garde NGO - which transcends the charity frame that NGOs currently find themselves locked in. Further, inspired by literary theory and social psychology, he offers a fresh account of how the Avant-garde NGO could, through reflective public engagement, induce attitude change and lead genuine social and political reform.
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Vincent Fang specialises in political theory and obtained his PhD in Politics and International Relations from the University of Auckland. His research focuses on global poverty, development non-governmental organisations, and public engagement. He currently works in New Zealand on refugee issues.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: From Charity to Justice
Book Subtitle: How NGOs Can Revolutionise Our Response to Extreme Poverty
Authors: Vincent Fang
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-1433-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-16-1432-3Published: 04 May 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-16-1435-4Published: 05 May 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-981-16-1433-0Published: 03 May 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 287
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Political Theory, Political Philosophy, Non-Profit Organizations and Public Enterprises, Development Studies