This article calls for a focus on the economic everyday of intervention societies. It opens the d... more This article calls for a focus on the economic everyday of intervention societies. It opens the debate by demonstrating the effects of intervention gentrification and sketching out different forms of local–intervener interactions. We argue that the majority of economic impacts are localised and connected to immediate geographic proximity and thus require a qualitative methodological approach. Further, many of these implications are of a socio-economic rather than economic nature. To demonstrate this, the article explores interactions and (non-)material transactions between residents in the neighbourhood of Jabal al-Weibdeh, Amman showing how the international presence has transformed the neighbourhood’s infrastructure and norms.
This article calls for a focus on the economic everyday of intervention societies. It opens the d... more This article calls for a focus on the economic everyday of intervention societies. It opens the debate by demonstrating the effects of intervention gentrification and sketching out different forms of local–intervener interactions. We argue that the majority of economic impacts are localised and connected to immediate geographic proximity and thus require a qualitative methodological approach. Further, many of these implications are of a socio-economic rather than economic nature. To demonstrate this, the article explores interactions and (non-)material transactions between residents in the neighbourhood of Jabal al-Weibdeh, Amman showing how the international presence has transformed the neighbourhood’s infrastructure and norms.
This paper was written as part of The Syrian Refugee Empowerment Project (SREP), initiated and fu... more This paper was written as part of The Syrian Refugee Empowerment Project (SREP), initiated and funded by the Open Society Foundations in Jordan and implemented by the Arab Renaissance for Democracy and Development (ARDD) and Tamkeen. It was never published by ARDD as OSF decided not to involve them in following phases of the project. However, the paper may still prove useful to other practitioners who wish to explore a community facilitator model in Jordan or other locations. The report is based on data collected through work carried out by ARDD and Tamkeen but all opinions expressed are that of my own, and not of OSF, ARDD or Tamkeen. Other ARDD staff members carried out the initial implementation of the project phase and data collection, while others also supported in proofing and providing comments for the paper.
This article calls for a focus on the economic everyday of intervention societies. It opens the d... more This article calls for a focus on the economic everyday of intervention societies. It opens the debate by demonstrating the effects of intervention gentrification and sketching out different forms of local–intervener interactions. We argue that the majority of economic impacts are localised and connected to immediate geographic proximity and thus require a qualitative methodological approach. Further, many of these implications are of a socio-economic rather than economic nature. To demonstrate this, the article explores interactions and (non-)material transactions between residents in the neighbourhood of Jabal al-Weibdeh, Amman showing how the international presence has transformed the neighbourhood’s infrastructure and norms.
This article calls for a focus on the economic everyday of intervention societies. It opens the d... more This article calls for a focus on the economic everyday of intervention societies. It opens the debate by demonstrating the effects of intervention gentrification and sketching out different forms of local–intervener interactions. We argue that the majority of economic impacts are localised and connected to immediate geographic proximity and thus require a qualitative methodological approach. Further, many of these implications are of a socio-economic rather than economic nature. To demonstrate this, the article explores interactions and (non-)material transactions between residents in the neighbourhood of Jabal al-Weibdeh, Amman showing how the international presence has transformed the neighbourhood’s infrastructure and norms.
This paper was written as part of The Syrian Refugee Empowerment Project (SREP), initiated and fu... more This paper was written as part of The Syrian Refugee Empowerment Project (SREP), initiated and funded by the Open Society Foundations in Jordan and implemented by the Arab Renaissance for Democracy and Development (ARDD) and Tamkeen. It was never published by ARDD as OSF decided not to involve them in following phases of the project. However, the paper may still prove useful to other practitioners who wish to explore a community facilitator model in Jordan or other locations. The report is based on data collected through work carried out by ARDD and Tamkeen but all opinions expressed are that of my own, and not of OSF, ARDD or Tamkeen. Other ARDD staff members carried out the initial implementation of the project phase and data collection, while others also supported in proofing and providing comments for the paper.
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