Connecting to the Umma through Islamic Relief: transnational Islamic NGOs in Chad
Connecting to the Umma through Islamic Relief: transnational Islamic NGOs in Chad
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通过伊斯兰救济与乌玛建立联系：乍得的跨国伊斯兰非政府组织
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10.3828/idpr.2011.24
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2011
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M. Kaag
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M. Kaag
本文认为，如果仅仅根据其对当地经济发展的影响来评价阿拉伯世界伊斯兰非政府组织在非洲的活动，就有可能遗漏重要的一点。虽然这些干预措施的范围和涉及的资金数额确实比西方对非洲的援助行业渠道要少得多，但从西方的角度来看，它们通常也可以被认为是相当“传统”的，因为它们通常更注重提供具体的救济和物质设施，而不是“能力建设”。然而，这些伊斯兰非政府组织不仅提供物质救济，还提供与更广泛的乌玛（全球信徒社区）联系的新方式 — — 对地方和全球层面产生影响。我们将通过分析跨国伊斯兰非政府组织在乍得的工作以及乍得案例中这种新的连通性的运作方式来说明这一点。有人认为，对发展的“外向型”跨地方视角...
This paper argues that if the activities of Islamic NGOs from the Arab world in Africa are evaluated merely in terms of their local economic development impact, there is a risk of missing an important point. While it is true that the scope of these interventions and the amount of money involved are generally much less than the western aid industry channels to Africa, they can also generally be considered rather 'traditional' from a western point of view, focused as they usually are more on offering concrete relief and material facilities than on 'capacity building'. These Islamic NGOs, however, offer not only material relief but also new ways of connecting to the wider umma, the global community of the faithful – with consequences both on the local and the global level. This will be illustrated by an analysis of the work of transnational Islamic NGOs in Chad and the ways in which this new connectivity works out in the Chadian case. It is argued that an 'outward looking' translocal perspective on developme...