Amateurs Without Borders: The Aspirations and Limits of Global Compassion

Amateurs without Borders examines the rise of new actors in the international development world: volunteer-driven grassroots international nongovernmental organizations. These small aid organizations, now ten thousand strong, sidestep the world of professionalized development aid by launching projects built around personal relationships and the skills of volunteers. This book draws on fieldwork in the United States and Africa, web data, and IRS records to offer the first large-scale systematic study of these groups. Amateurs without Borders investigates the aspirations and limits of personal compassion on a global scale.

Author: Allison Schnable
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 02/02/2021
Pages: 262
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9780520300958
ISBN10: 0520300955
BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | NGOs (Non-Governmental Organizations)
- Social Science | Philanthropy & Charity
- Political Science | Globalization

About the Author
Allison Schnable is Assistant Professor in the O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University.