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Volunteering For Development: Tensions Around Conducting Multi-Sited Ethnography With Volunteers, Nichole Georgeou
Volunteering For Development: Tensions Around Conducting Multi-Sited Ethnography With Volunteers, Nichole Georgeou
Nichole Georgeou
A scholarly and personal account of the ethical, and human issues and values involved in a specific example of ethnographic research and field-work, with wider research implications and relevance.
"Looks Good On Your Cv": The Sociology Of Voluntourism Recruitment In Higher Education, Colleen Mcgloin, Nichole Georgeou
"Looks Good On Your Cv": The Sociology Of Voluntourism Recruitment In Higher Education, Colleen Mcgloin, Nichole Georgeou
Nichole Georgeou
The recruitment for what has become known as 'voluntourism' takes place on the campuses of many Australian universities. Students are recruited to travel to developing countries to aid poor communities. In doing so, according to recruiters, student CVs will be enhanced. The authors critically examine this process and argue that it reinforces the idea that 'poor' countries require outside help from affluent westerners to induce development, thereby reinforcing a hegemonic discourse of need.
Review: Regulation Of Sexual Conduct In Un Peacekeeping Operations, Nichole Georgeou
Review: Regulation Of Sexual Conduct In Un Peacekeeping Operations, Nichole Georgeou
Nichole Georgeou
Review of the 2012 study by Olivera Simic, 'Regulation of Sexual Conduct in UN Peacekeeping Operations', Springer: Heidelberg. The reviewer critically examines this study and explains what sets it apart from previous studies of sexual exploitation and sexual abuse in the context of international peacekeeping.
Foreign Aid Budget: Promoting Australia's Interests At The Expense Of The Poor, Nichole Georgeou, Charles Hawksley
Foreign Aid Budget: Promoting Australia's Interests At The Expense Of The Poor, Nichole Georgeou, Charles Hawksley
Nichole Georgeou
A brief, critical discussion of the Foreign Aid provisions of the 2014-15 Australian budget of the Abbott government, published in the 'Academics Stand Against Poverty Oceania, 2014-15 Budget Response'.
Police-Building And The Responsibility To Protect: Civil Society, Gender And Human Rights Culture In Oceania, Charles Hawksley, Nichole Georgeou
Police-Building And The Responsibility To Protect: Civil Society, Gender And Human Rights Culture In Oceania, Charles Hawksley, Nichole Georgeou
Nichole Georgeou
Forthcoming: This book examines how the United Nations and states provide assistance for the police services of developing states to help them meet their human rights obligations to their citizens, under the responsibility to protect (R2P) provisions. It examines police-capacity building ("police-building") by international donors in Timor-Leste, Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea (PNG). All three states have been described as "fragile states" and "states of concern", and all have witnessed significant social tensions and violence in the past decades. The authors argue that globally police-building forms part of an attempt to make states "safe" so that they can adhere …
Rtop's Second Pillar: The Responsibility To Assist In Theory And Practice In Solomon Islands, Charles Hawksley, Nichole Georgeou
Rtop's Second Pillar: The Responsibility To Assist In Theory And Practice In Solomon Islands, Charles Hawksley, Nichole Georgeou
Nichole Georgeou
This paper explores the implementation of a regional capacity-building program in Solomon Islands, a state that experienced significant violence and political tension between 1998 and 2003. The July 2003 intervention of the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (RAMSI) is a useful and relevant case study for understanding the operationalization of Pillar II of RtoP, which the authors have termed the “Responsibility to Assist” (RtoA). While RAMSI has not consciously adopted RtoP language in its operations, the rationale for the intervention included humanitarian as well as wider regional security concerns. The mission’s emphasis on developing the state’s capacities in policing …
How Volunteering In Development Became "Duchessed", Nichole Georgeou
How Volunteering In Development Became "Duchessed", Nichole Georgeou
Nichole Georgeou
Discussion of the ways in which development volunteering has been stripped of its political meaning and lost its social justice and political dimensions. While the language of 'participation', 'partnership' and 'empowerment' is retained, volunteering has become infused with national interest and economic agendas. It is not a process, however, that is unchallenged.
Eradicating Extreme Poverty And Hunger In The Pacific: Toward The First Millennium Development Goal, Nichole Georgeou, Charles Hawksley
Eradicating Extreme Poverty And Hunger In The Pacific: Toward The First Millennium Development Goal, Nichole Georgeou, Charles Hawksley
Nichole Georgeou
This is Case Study 28 in the Hawksley and Georgeou edited book "The Globalization of World Politics" (OUP, 2013). The discussion centres on the issues of extreme poverty and hunger in the Pacific region, and strategies to eradicate these.
Sovereignty And Intervention In Southeast Asia, Charles Hawksley, Nichole Georgeou
Sovereignty And Intervention In Southeast Asia, Charles Hawksley, Nichole Georgeou
Nichole Georgeou
Case Study Number 2 in the Hawksley and Georgeou edited book 'The Globalization of World Politics' (2013). An overview and update regarding the politics and issues involved in regional 'intervention' in Southeast Asia.
Socio-Institutional Neoliberalism, Securitisation And Australia's Aid Program, Nichole Georgeou, Charles Hawksley
Socio-Institutional Neoliberalism, Securitisation And Australia's Aid Program, Nichole Georgeou, Charles Hawksley
Nichole Georgeou
This is Case Study Number 8 in the Hawksley and Georgeou edited book 'The Globalization of World Politics' (OUP, 2013).
Australia's Seat On The Un Security Council, Charles Hawksley, Nichole Georgeou
Australia's Seat On The Un Security Council, Charles Hawksley, Nichole Georgeou
Nichole Georgeou
This is Case Study Number 20 in the book edited by Charles Hawksley and Nichole Georgeou, 'The Globalization of World Politics' (OUP, 2013).
Development Volunteering Duchessed, Nichole Georgeou
Development Volunteering Duchessed, Nichole Georgeou
Nichole Georgeou
More and more Australians are getting involved in volunteering for development. The Australian government has welcomed this interest, linking volunteering closely to the aid program. These closer ties have removed the traditional radical elements from development volunteering that were present when the idea first emerged with work camps after WWI. Gone is the emphasis on cross-cultural engagement, participation and empowerment at the grassroots level of people in their own development. Now a service-driven approach has volunteers as the human face of Australian aid. They provide funded, specialist and “non-political” advice. Volunteering has become “duchessed”, but it looks great on a …
Pillar Ii In Focus--The Responsibility To Assist: Police Capacity-Building In Timor-Leste And The 2012 Parliamentary Elections, Charles Hawksley, Nichole Georgeou
Pillar Ii In Focus--The Responsibility To Assist: Police Capacity-Building In Timor-Leste And The 2012 Parliamentary Elections, Charles Hawksley, Nichole Georgeou
Nichole Georgeou
This briefing paper provides a short background to the 2012 elections in Timor-Leste, and explores the UNPOL mandate to support and build the capacity of the Polícia Nacional de Timor-Leste (PNTL – the Timor-Leste National Police), so that Timor-Leste will be able to manage security for its citizens without international assistance. Based on fieldwork conducted during June 2012, including interviews with human rights-focused NGOs, and with international police implementing bilateral and multilateral capacity building, we argue that the 3,200-3,400 strong PNTL is theoretically ready to go it alone when the UN Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste departs, and explore questions as …
Australian Volunteers Abroad In The Asia/Pacific Region: Altruistic And Egoistic Desire In A Neoliberal Paradigm (2006-2009), Nichole Georgeou
Australian Volunteers Abroad In The Asia/Pacific Region: Altruistic And Egoistic Desire In A Neoliberal Paradigm (2006-2009), Nichole Georgeou
Nichole Georgeou
This study is the first detailed, long-term ethnographic study of an International Volunteer Sending Agency (IVSA) and its development volunteers. Through a comprehensive study of Palms Australia and its volunteers between 2006 and 2009 the thesis examines how neoliberal views of aid and development have affected the practice of development volunteering. A multi-sited ethnographic approach (Marcus 1995) was utilised to follow the idea of development volunteering through multiple locals. This thesis unpacks and critically analyses assumptions about the role of development volunteers as understood from a range of perspectives including: the experiences and changing conceptions of a group of 13 …
Tense Relations: The Tradition Of Hoshi And Emergence Of Borantia In Japan, Nichole Georgeou
Tense Relations: The Tradition Of Hoshi And Emergence Of Borantia In Japan, Nichole Georgeou
Nichole Georgeou
In this thesis I examine the transformations of volunteering in Japan from 'hōshi' (mutual obligation) to 'borantia' (borrowed from the English 'volunteer'). I argue changes in the forms of volunteering overtime point to important shifts in state-citizen and state-civil society relations in Japan. Hōshi emerged during a period of Japan's history when the state had an increasingly authoritarian approach to managing its subjects. It reflects this cultural context as it embodies a strong sense of obligation and is characterised by notions of service and sacrifice, particularly dedicated service to the greater good of the Emperor and state. In contrast the …
Neoliberalism, Development, And Aid Volunteering, Nichole Georgeou
Neoliberalism, Development, And Aid Volunteering, Nichole Georgeou
Nichole Georgeou
This is the first qualitative empirical study of international development volunteering. The book contributes theoretical knowledge on International Volunteering Sending Agencies (IVSAs) and examines practitioner experience in development volunteering in the context of emerging policy developments. Critical analysis highlights the impact of global and social changes and provides a nuanced understanding of development volunteer motivation, and the relationship between volunteers and sending agencies. The book also puts forward an agenda and model for volunteer sending that addresses the complexities and diversity of the volunteer experience.
Pillar Ii In Practice: Police Capacity-Building In Oceania, Charles Hawksley, Nichole Georgeou
Pillar Ii In Practice: Police Capacity-Building In Oceania, Charles Hawksley, Nichole Georgeou
Nichole Georgeou
At the recent AusAID sponsored UN Strategy and Coordination Conference on the Regional Capacity to Protect, Prevent and Respond (May 17-18, Bangkok), the UN Secretary General’s Special Representative on Responsibility to Protect (R2P), Edward Luck, noted that while the three pillars of R2P are becoming better known, 90% of the academic work is on Pillar III (Intervention), even though it is comparatively rare. In contrast we know much less about Pillar II: The Responsibility to Assist. In this briefing paper the authors explore police capacity-building (“police-building”) in three developing states of Oceania and its relation to R2P. This activity forms …
Blog: Neoliberalism, Development, And Aid Volunteering, Nichole Georgeou
Blog: Neoliberalism, Development, And Aid Volunteering, Nichole Georgeou
Nichole Georgeou
The focus of this blog is the book "Neoliberalism, Development, and Aid Volunteering" (Routledge, NY, 2012), and the work of its author, Nichole Georgeou.
The Impact Of Neoliberalism And New Managerialism On Development Volunteering: An Australian Case Study, Nichole Georgeou, Susan Engel
The Impact Of Neoliberalism And New Managerialism On Development Volunteering: An Australian Case Study, Nichole Georgeou, Susan Engel
Nichole Georgeou
Within the large volume of research on aid and development there has been limited study of international development volunteering generally and the ways in which it has been affected by neoliberalism. Development volunteering has undergone a resurgence over the past decade and some new forms of volunteering have emerged, but state sponsored development programs are still a key form. These programs were relatively immune from neoliberal ideas and managerial practices until the early 2000s. An interesting puzzle is why neoliberal principles were operationalised in Australia's volunteering program at the same time as it, and other donor states, softened this focus …
Volunteering In A Neo-Liberal Development Paradigm: A Timor-Leste Case Study. Discussion Paper, Palms Australia, Nichole Georgeou, Brendan Joyce
Volunteering In A Neo-Liberal Development Paradigm: A Timor-Leste Case Study. Discussion Paper, Palms Australia, Nichole Georgeou, Brendan Joyce
Nichole Georgeou
Nichole Georgeou and Brendan Joyce from Palms Australia question the role volunteers play in AusAID policy in Timor-Leste, pointing to a risky conflict between the aims of volunteering and those aid programmes in which volunteers work.
From Hōshi To Borantia: Transformations Of Volunteering In Japan And Implications For Foreign Policy, Nichole Georgeou
From Hōshi To Borantia: Transformations Of Volunteering In Japan And Implications For Foreign Policy, Nichole Georgeou
Nichole Georgeou
This study explores the relationship between state-citizen relations and changing notions of volunteering in Japan. I map Japan's state-citizen relations through an analysis of the transformations of volunteering in Japan from “hōshi” (mutual obligation) to "borantia" (borrowed from the English "volunteer"). The article broadly considers these paradigm shifts in terms of the context of the role International Non Profit Organisations (INPOs) play in Japanese foreign policy.