Against Charity
I wrote my first book as a critique of charity work in Kolkata, India. I attempted a critique of western ‘charity’ workers helping those they saw as the…
Tag: Charity
The Rumour of Calcutta: Tourism, Charity and the Poverty of Representation
Reposted from three years ago because – the stats tell me – at least one copy has been downloaded every day this month. Either its a dedicated bot…
Getrübte „Hoffnung“? – Eine Wohltätigkeitsorganisation unter der Lupe
Es gibt trotz aller Beschneidungen und gesetzlichen Änderungen der letzten Jahre verschiedene rechtliche Organisationsformen in China, innerhalb derer sich Bürger sozial engagieren können. Das über 30…
Care – a Christmas Carol
The inadequacy of charitable care as an international cure is evidenced despite the widespread propagation of philanthropic intervention. Bill Gates dedicates millions towards eradication of less glam…
The Rumour of Calcutta – digital book
22 years ago my first book was typeset and laid out in the days before electronics – well, an electric typesetting machine was plugged into a wall, but…
Book Review: Kids – Child Protection in Britain: The Truth by Camila Batmanghelidjh with Tim Rayment
In Kids – Child Protection in Britain: The Truth, Camila Batmanghelidjh with Tim Rayment sets out a defence of Kids Company, the charity that she ran from 1996 until its…
Backpackers in Calcutta again
From: The Global Nomad: Backpacker Travel in Theory and Practice edited by Dr. Greg Richards, Dr. Julie Wilson 2004 And From: A Common Mission: Healthy Patterns in Congregational…
Academic work as charity
In so many ways, academic work is hard to recognize as being work in the standard wage-labor sense of that word. It can take place at all hours of day…
In Afrika kann jede_r helfen (und was für den CV tun)
Vor einigen Wochen war ich bei einem Vortrag zu “Women in Revolution: Political Leadership in Africa” von Minna Salami. Es ging dabei auch um (feministische) Zusammenarbeiten über Ländergr…