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Accepted Paper:
Beyond the Securitisation of Development: The 'Nationalisation' of UK Aid
Melita Lazell
(University of Portsmouth)
Paper short abstract:
This paper explores the way in which the UK's aid and development policy is increasingly justified on the basis on the 'national interest' and offers a new framework for understanding this shift.
Paper long abstract:
Drawing on fresh qualitative research, this paper argues that aid as an act of solidarity, economic justice or redistribution, which has always been undermined by donor interest and colonialism, has now been eroded by the securitisation of development. Using data from the thematic analsysis of over 50 policy documents spanning 1997-2021 and new interview data from interviews with FCDO personel, this paper proposes that the process of securitisation has so escalated that the theory of securitisation, used to understand development aid since the late 1990s, no longer provides a suitable framework to understand the aid policy of donors. As such this paper develops a new framework based on the 'nationalisation' of development aid to understand both the current state of donor-recipient relationship and the assess the potential futures of aid.
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Accepted Paper:
Melita Lazell (University of Portsmouth)
Paper short abstract:
Paper long abstract:
Drawing on fresh qualitative research, this paper argues that aid as an act of solidarity, economic justice or redistribution, which has always been undermined by donor interest and colonialism, has now been eroded by the securitisation of development. Using data from the thematic analsysis of over 50 policy documents spanning 1997-2021 and new interview data from interviews with FCDO personel, this paper proposes that the process of securitisation has so escalated that the theory of securitisation, used to understand development aid since the late 1990s, no longer provides a suitable framework to understand the aid policy of donors. As such this paper develops a new framework based on the 'nationalisation' of development aid to understand both the current state of donor-recipient relationship and the assess the potential futures of aid.
Aid provision and donors’ interests in an urbanising and mobile world increasingly affected by climate change
Session 1 Thursday 7 July, 2022, -