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Charity is Never Free. Discuss. - Coggle Diagram
Charity is Never Free. Discuss.
intro
Thesis: as long as charity is dependent on legitimisation from the state/ existing institutional powers or funding from individuals hoping to gain moral capital from sensationalised representations, charity can never be truly free
Charity's functions, necessity
Types of charity/ roadmap
"Freeness" as true altruism, charity free from systems of obligation or oppression that negatively impact recievers
Top-down approaches + power imbalances
Legitimising the position of the giver
Symbolic violence: moral capital
Structural violence: legitimising structures that giver them power
Marginalising the poor
Symbolic violence: shame
Structural violence: "management" over solutions
Context
Bottom-up approaches + community based solutions?
inequality of resources
Misrepresentation for funding
Remaining transactionalism
Lack of prospects for implementing institutional change
remaining marginalisation by wider society
conc
reiterating disclaimer:
may be exacerbated or mitigated by different social conditions (ie. implications of charity dependent on social norms)
Charity still has a place in the world => without it we may miss addressing immediate needs of people => however, charity is not a lasting solution as it does not transform structural issues that make it necessary + oppressive