From non- to for-profits, expats to locals, and the personal to the professional: Relocating the scholarly gaze in “Aidland”
In this paper I reflect on my anthropological research on Tanzanian foreign aid experts and private sector development professionals in Kenya and Europe. Their cases serve as examples of three possible shifts in attention in research on aid workers: from Euro-American expats to development professio...
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| Format: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Język: | Anglais |
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Anthropologie & développement
2025
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| Dostęp online: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Streszczenie: | In this paper I reflect on my anthropological research on Tanzanian foreign aid experts and private sector development professionals in Kenya and Europe. Their cases serve as examples of three possible shifts in attention in research on aid workers: from Euro-American expats to development professionals from the global South; from state agencies and NGOs to the growing field of profit-making aid; and from the personal to the professional. The paper explores some of the methodological and ethical implications of studying these “new” areas of Aidland for the many aidnographers, like myself, whose roots lie in its “traditional” (white, expatriate, grants-based) areas. |
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