Charities under austerity : ethnographies of poverty and marginality in Western non-profit and charity associations
Valenzuela García, Hugo (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Antropologia Social i Cultural)
Rice, James (Háskóli Íslands (Reykjavik, Islàndia). Faculty of Social and Human Sciences)
Lubbers, Miranda J. (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Antropologia Social i Cultural)

Data:	2019
Resum:	In an era of growing inequality, poverty and marginality are among the gravest challenges in the political agendas of many so-called "developed" countries. However, neoliberal policies and welfare state retrenchment imply that poverty alleviation, formerly one of the main duties of welfare states, increasingly relies on non-profit and charity organizations. In contrast to the attention that such organizations in the global south have attracted among ethnographers, ethnographies of non-profit and charity.
Resum:	associations in Western societies addressing poverty relief is scarce. With the special issue "Ethnographies of Poverty and Marginality in Western Non-Profit and Charity Associations", we aim to fill this void. In this introductory article, we discuss the implications that current societal transformations have for the forms, functionality and effects of NGOs and charity associations, as well as the role that ethnographies of such organizations may have to shed light on the social processes through which poverty relief as a policy objective become institutionalised and practiced. Last, we present the participating authors and their contributions to this special issue.
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Llengua:	Anglès
Document:	Editorial ; recerca ; Versió acceptada per publicar
Matèria:	Charity organizations ; Organizational ethnography ; Poverty ; Volunteering ; Marginalization
Publicat a:	Journal of Organizational Ethnography, Vol. 8 Núm. 1 (2019) , p. 2-10, ISSN 2046-6757

DOI: 10.1108/JOE-04-2019-076

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