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Responsibility and partnership in Swedish aid discourse

Year: 2001

Type: report

Abstract: In 1997 the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs elaborated a 'New Policy for Africa'. Its purpose was to co-ordinate the country's cultural assistance, trade and development aid to African countries by giving these activities a frame of common goals and an ideological rationale, emphasising 'partnership' rather than 'solidarity' or 'aid'. This paper analyses the metaphors and paradoxes of the rhetorical draping of the policy as presented in the main report and the speeches of various officials. Of particular concern is what image of moral and reciprocal relations the policy mediates.

Source: KTH Publication Database DiVA (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)

Author: Gudrun Dahl

Language: English

Topic: International Development and Aid

Subfield: Development

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Partnerships for the goals

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W647082279

Cites: 19

Cited by: 34

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