Fetishizing Altruism: Myths, Power, and Corruption in the International Aid Context

• In Event: Nonprofit Programs

Brief Overview

Globalized and modernized, altruism offers an automatic validation of the International Aid System from a religious, moral, and ethical perspective. We examine here this unquestionable system and its interaction with money, high politics, and markets

Author

• Maria Del Mar Bermudez, University of California-Irvine