The Foreign Aid Regime: Gift-Giving, States and Global Dis/Order

146 Pages·2015·1.171 MB·English

by  Annalisa Furia (auth.)

The Foreign Aid Regime
DOI: 10.1057/9781137505903.0001
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The Foreign Aid
Regime: Gift-Giving,
States and Global
Dis/Order
Annalisa Furia
Research Fellow, University of Bologna, Italy
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This book is dedicated to J. & M.,
to my husband Gianpaolo,
to my parents Anna-Clelia and Euclide,
and to my sister Arianna
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Contents
Acknowledgements vii
Introduction 1
1 Foreign Aid Is Gift 9
Modernising the order 11
The Maussian gift 17
Many gifts 21
Internationalising the gift 29
2 The Foreign Aid Regime 37
The new name of peace 38
Development can be developed 47
Countries and peoples that cannot be trusted 63
The logic of the gift 70
3 Dis/Ordering the World 82
Conflict, poverty and quasi-states 85
Cooperation, friendship and justice 97
Conclusion: playing communitas against
immunitas, and the other way round 108
References 116
Index 131
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Acknowledgements
This work is the result of a process of research and reflec-
tion that could not have been possible without the support
and input of many colleagues and friends. I am sincerely
grateful to Fulvio Cammarano and Igor Pellicciari for
having provided the very first stimulus to elaborate around
foreign aid as a political practice, and for having continued
to sustain such stimulus with the exchange of ideas and
the invitation to conferences on the matter. I am also very
grateful to Raffaella Baritono for having encouraged me to
start putting ideas on paper and for having offered crucial
suggestions for the development of the study. I owe the
same debt of gratitude to Silvia Vida and Lorenzo Gradoni
who have many times shared with me their very precious
inputs, have triggered many reflections and have contrib-
uted to make this challenging endeavour also a pleasant
one. I would like to express my gratitude to Carlo Carini,
Raffaella Gherardi, Maurizio Ricciardi and Fausto Proietti
for having supported this work from the very beginning,
and to Michele Filippini, Lorenzo Fioramonti and the
external reviewer at Palgrave Macmillan for their precious
preliminary feedback and suggestions. Despite all these
valuable contributions, the responsibility of the book’s
content, including any flaws and omissions that remain,
is mine alone. I would like to express my sincere thanks
and appreciation to Daniela DeBono for having proofread
and copy-edited the manuscript, and to Christina M.
Brian, Ambra Finotello and the editorial and production
staff at Palgrave Macmillan for their precious professional
support.
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viii Acknowledgements
This work would not have been possible without the support of the
Department of Cultural Heritage at the University of Bologna, Ravenna
campus, and the continued support of Fondazione Flaminia, particularly
of its director Antonio Penso. It would not have been possible without
the continued and enriching support of Gustavo Gozzi, whose many
professional and personal ‘gifts’ have been, and will always remain,
profoundly inspirational.
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Introduction
Abstract: This chapter illustrates the main characteristics of
the analytical perspective adopted within the study. It starts by
comparing this perspective to other approaches dealing with
the same matter, and goes on to illustrate the hermeneutical
challenges posed by the analysis of foreign aid. ‘The Foreign
Aid Regime’, this chapter argues, represents an original,
though preliminary and self-consciously limited, attempt to
investigate the specific regime of governmental practices that
is established and maintained by and through North–South
foreign aid.
Keywords: development foreign aid; donor/recipient
relationship; foreign aid as gift; governmentality; political
thought
Furia, Annalisa. The Foreign Aid Regime: Gift-Giving, States
and Global Dis/Order. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan,
2015. doi: 10.1057/9781137505903.0003.
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