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Title:Aid(s) politics and power: a critique of global governance
Author:Thörn, HåkanISNI
Year:2011
Periodical:Politikon: South African Journal of Political Studies (ISSN 0258-9346)
Volume:38
Issue:3
Pages:433-451
Language:English
Geographic term:South Africa
Subjects:AIDS
civil society
development cooperation
External link:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02589346.2011.623844
Abstract:This article provides a case study of overseas development assistance for AIDS to South African civil society; it analyses how power is exercised as well as resisted in the context of international aid. While it is argued that governance theory tends to underestimate power inequalities in the context of policy networks, this case is instead related to the theoretical debate on whether current global power structures can be analysed in terms of a (US-led) neo-imperialism, or whether they should rather be understood in terms of post-imperialist power constellations based on 'regulation of self-regulation' through market mechanisms, and with an emphasis on 'civil society participation'. While the case demonstrates how US aid under the Bush administrations to a certain extent involved a 'civilizing mission', it is argued that 'regulation of self-regulation' was the more significant form of governing AIDS aid networks, contributing to a development through which AIDS activism went through a process of 'NGO-ization', de-politicizing the AIDS issue. An earlier version of this article was published in 'Power and Transnational Activism', ed. by T. Olesen (London, Routledge, 2011). Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract]
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