Saving Which Children How? The Importance of Cultural Capital in Youth-Focused International Aid and Development

This review discusses the book Saving the Children: Humanitarianism, Internationalism, and Empire by Emily Baughan. In the book, Baughan documents and discusses the first 100 years of the Save the Children Fund, which was established in the United Kingdom in 1919. In this article, I review the book...

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International aid
Community capitals framework
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spelling Saving Which Children How? The Importance of Cultural Capital in Youth-Focused International Aid and DevelopmentAshdown, BrienSave the childrenCultural capitalInternational developmentInternational aidCommunity capitals frameworkThis review discusses the book Saving the Children: Humanitarianism, Internationalism, and Empire by Emily Baughan. In the book, Baughan documents and discusses the first 100 years of the Save the Children Fund, which was established in the United Kingdom in 1919. In this article, I review the book in the context of the Community Capitals Framework, paying particular attention to the importance of cultural capital. I argue that one of the major shortcomings of Save the Children was the willful ignorance of and, at times, the purposeful destruction and elimination of the cultural capital of the communities, families, and children they were serving. I discuss the consequences of ignoring and damaging cultural capital and provide examples of how, rather than being only a historical problem of large and complex organizations such as Save the Children, some current scholars and practitioners continue to neglect and harm cultural capital in their own community development work.Routledge2022-10-18T12:52:53Z2022-10-18T12:52:53Z2022Peer-ReviewedPreprintinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfAshdown, B. K. (2022). Saving Which Children How? The Importance of Cultural Capital in Youth-Focused International Aid and Development. In Community Development (pp. 1–6). Informa UK Limited. https://doi.org/10.1080/15575330.2022.21318631944-7485http://hdl.handle.net/11073/2503810.1080/15575330.2022.2131863en_UShttps://doi.org/10.1080/15575330.2022.2131863oai:repository.aus.edu:11073/250382024-08-22T12:01:22Z
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Ashdown, Brien
Save the children
Cultural capital
International development
International aid
Community capitals framework
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title Saving Which Children How? The Importance of Cultural Capital in Youth-Focused International Aid and Development
title_full Saving Which Children How? The Importance of Cultural Capital in Youth-Focused International Aid and Development
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title_full_unstemmed Saving Which Children How? The Importance of Cultural Capital in Youth-Focused International Aid and Development
title_short Saving Which Children How? The Importance of Cultural Capital in Youth-Focused International Aid and Development
title_sort Saving Which Children How? The Importance of Cultural Capital in Youth-Focused International Aid and Development
topic Save the children
Cultural capital
International development
International aid
Community capitals framework
url http://hdl.handle.net/11073/25038