In the News: “Reductive Seduction” in Creating Meaning from Others’ Lives
One of the issues that The CIHA Blog contends with is the problematic argument that people are just trying to “do good,” that their motives are genuine, that any problem […]
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In the News: Rethinking Food Aid Programs
posted by Jolene McCall
The detrimental effects of food aid programs are not a recent realization. In fact, a variety of reports highlight the necessity to rethink […]
The Fight against Poverty: Humanitarian Idealism and the Elusive Quest for Development
In this three-part series (we post Part Three today), Cilas Kemedjio takes on the ongoing crusade to spread neoliberal dogma and “western values.” Part One addresses the “virgin fallacy,” […]
The Ideology of Freedom and Progress: Western Supremacy, Virgin Africa, and the Fight Against Poverty
In this three-part series (we post Part Two today), Cilas Kemedjio takes on the ongoing crusade to spread neoliberal dogma and “western values.” Part One addresses the “virgin fallacy,” […]
The Virgin Fallacy: From the Famine Cotton Board to the Millennium Village Project
In this three-part series (we post Part One today), Cilas Kemedjio takes on the ongoing crusade to spread neoliberal dogma and “western values.” Part Two addresses William Easterly’s call to […]
In the News: Humanitarian-“ism”
posted by Bangirana Albert Billy
“The concept which is supposed to transcend ideology obscures the role of the west in creating disasters in the first place.” – Jeremy Seabrook
Jeremy Seabrook, in […]
In the News: Poverty is a Moral Problem
The interview with William Easterly in Christianity Today raises important issues around morality, aid, and the rights of people who are supposed to benefit from aid. While Easterly has […]