Democratic philanthropy

MacKenzie, Michael K.

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“…The mediating role of philanthropy in the appropriation of public space considers how the public spaces available to citizens are accessible, as well as whether they can be used to facilitate the exercise of their agency and interests. For example, MacKenzie (2020, p.578) discusses how foundations might adopt participatory budgeting (PB) models, suggesting that PB may be particularly suited to foundations that work in spatially defined areas, though adaptable to wider contexts too. As philanthropic individuals and foundations play prominent, proactive leadership roles in public/urban governance, the risk is that the appropriation of public spaces is crowded out by the dominance of philanthropy (Reckhow et al, 2020; Thomson, 2019).…”

Section: Philanthropy and The Re‐appropriation Of Public Spacementioning

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What is the relationship between philanthropy, materiality and public space?

Daly

2023

Journal of Philanthropy and Marketing

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This article explores the dynamic between public space and material representations of philanthropy. It adapts the conception of public space in terms of layers: physical, code and content (Lessig, 2001;Németh, 2012). The article discusses physical forms of philanthropy and the codified norms, processes and relationships in material representations of philanthropy (code). To this end, part one examines how gifts of buildings and the memorialisation of philanthropy embody the philanthropic dominance of public space. Part two explores how the (re)appropriation of public space(s) encapsulates what happens in, and in relation to physical manifestations of philanthropy (content). Specifically; (i) the uses of spaces (ii) deliberation in public spaces; (iii) the decolonisation of philanthropic processes and practices; and (iv) the complementarity of public space and the public sphere. The article offers a novel heuristic for philanthropy and public space that can also inform conversations between development professionals and donors, and public debate.

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Section: Philanthropy and The Re‐appropriation Of Public Spacementioning

confidence: 99%

What is the relationship between philanthropy, materiality and public space?

Daly

2023

Journal of Philanthropy and Marketing

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All Things Considered, Should Egalitarian Movements Accept Philanthropic Funding?

McCrea

2023

Res Publica

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Philanthropy is a contentious and often polarising topic within egalitarian social movements. There are good reasons for this. Philanthropy is reliant on the inequalities inherent in the capitalist system, is fundamentally at odds with democratic relationships, and can moderate or control the activities of recipients. This article therefore starts from the premise that philanthropy violates egalitarian ideals in very significant ways. However, it goes on to suggest that, absent a ruptural change that would drastically weaken the bases of philanthropic wealth, there is a strategic and contingent case for its selective use so long as it pushes existing configurations of power in more egalitarian directions. In making this case, the article draws primarily on the work of Wright (2010) but also on recent developments in the political theory of philanthropy. It calls for a critical literacy around philanthropy that combines an openness to experimentation with a clear-eyed sense of its significant risks. In this respect, it outlines specific conditions and strategies that movements should adopt if they pursue or accept philanthropic funding. Firstly, movements must deliberately articulate and actively defend their transformative vision, clarifying in the process the tactical place of philanthropy within this. Secondly, they must resist funder conditionalities, and preserve egalitarian modes of organising in the face of practices which undermine participatory ideals and threaten relations of care and solidarity. The article’s chief contribution is to integrate normative insights with lessons from the sociological literature on movement-philanthropy relations, for the sake of systematically untangling a live and troublesome issue within the praxis of radical movements.

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Small Money Donating as Democratic Politics

Rubenstein¹

2021

Perspect. polit.

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Since 2008, the number of people in the United States making small monetary donations to political causes, both within and beyond electoral politics, has skyrocketed. While critics of “big money” in politics laud these donations because they are small, proponents of small-scale democratic political action eye them suspiciously because they are monetary. Neither group interrogates whether the monetariness of these donations might be a source of their democratic potential. Building on Wendy Brown’s conceptual distinction between monetization and economization, I argue that small-money political donations are potentially democratic not only because they are small, but also because they are monetary. More specifically, the mobility, divisibility, commensurability, and fungibility of money help make small-money political donations potentially democratic, by making them potentially accessible, non-intrusive, and collective. Money is the coin of the economic realm, but it can also be a currency of democratic politics.

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Democratic philanthropy

Cited by 4 publications

References 26 publications

What is the relationship between philanthropy, materiality and public space?

What is the relationship between philanthropy, materiality and public space?

All Things Considered, Should Egalitarian Movements Accept Philanthropic Funding?

Small Money Donating as Democratic Politics

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