Philanthronationalism: Junctures at the Business–Charity Nexus in Post‐war Sri Lanka

Widger, Tom

doi:10.1111/dech.12185

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“…That multiple kinds of funders have been observed in other NGO contexts (e.g. see Mueller‐Hirth, ) points to ‘new configurations of market, state and society’, distinct from those associated with less entangled forms of philanthropy (Widger, : 47). The case studies also exemplify how a range of agendas are attracting this funding, suggesting that LGBT advocacy is at a significant juncture in terms of transnational development aid — both more attractive to mainstream donors than in earlier decades when the cause was more controversial, and a site of pushback against perceived foreign encroachments in politically fraught post‐colonial contexts.…”

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confidence: 98%

LGBT Advocacy and Transnational Funding in Singapore and Malaysia

Ng¹

2018

Development and Change

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LGBT advocacy is an emergent site attracting transnational funding from an expanded set of donor types that now include private corporations, national governments, NGOs, intergovernmental organizations and public–private partnerships. This article discusses LGBT advocacy as involving an expanded range of issues that go beyond a traditional focus on HIV/AIDS prevention. The geographical focus is on Singapore and Malaysia, two Southeast Asian countries where homosexuality is officially illegal. Alongside the global politics of LGBT rights, previous critiques about external funding and North/South asymmetries in transnational aid raise questions about its effectiveness for transformative socio‐political change, and its political and theoretical implications. Three case studies are examined: Pink Dot Singapore, and the PT Foundation and Kuala Lumpur activist workshops in Malaysia. The data demonstrate the capacity for transnational support to contribute to grassroots activism and coalitional politics. However, significant observable outcomes are currently limited, partly because most of the grants are modest, and Singapore and Malaysia's high‐ and middle‐income status excludes them from various funding bodies. Furthermore, domestic resistance to transnational funding has emerged, constituting more widespread discourses in which anti‐LGBT sentiment is framed in terms of opposing Western encroachments and the dominance of the global North.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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LGBT Advocacy and Transnational Funding in Singapore and Malaysia

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2018

Development and Change

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“…Abeysuriya, Mitchell and White (2007) suggest a moral code based on Buddhist values to guide firms in solving sanitation questions via CSR. Widger (2016) identifies four indigenous forms of CSR in Sri Lanka that promote Buddhism as the nation's dominant religion.…”

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Religion and CSR: a systematic literature review

Aaken

Buchner

2020

J Bus Econ

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Around the turn of the millennium, a growing body of literature emerged that focuses on the relationship between religion and corporate social responsibility (CSR). Although the connection between religion and CSR seems obvious at first, the literature in this field yields conflicting results. This paper provides the first systematic review of the literature that deals with the relation between religion and CSR. We categorized the literature into a matrix, which distinguishes the level of analysis (micro/macro) on the one hand and types of approaches (normative/empirical) on the other. Results are clustered according to the religions they address to identify similarities between and locate trends in research.

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“…12 Widger has shown that in Sri Lanka, the private sector's philanthrocapitalism is reflecting and shaping dominant Sinhala Buddhist nationalist narratives. 13 Atia has argued that Egyptian faith-based development organisations have linked Islamic charity to forms of self-help such as financial investment and entrepreneurship to produce a 'pious neoliberalism'. 14 Akcali and Korkut's work on Hungary and Turkey demonstrates that the ruling parties, the Hungarian Civic Union (Fidesz) and Justice and Development Party (AKP) have promoted their respective conservative Christian and Islamist politics through urban development projects that entail gentrification and privatisation in a bid for global competitiveness.…”

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MarketizingHindutva: The state, society, and markets in Hindu nationalism

Chacko¹

2018

Mod. Asian Stud.

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The embrace of markets and globalization by radical political parties is often taken as reflecting and facilitating the moderation of their ideologies. This article considers the case of Hindu nationalism, or Hindutva, in India. It is argued that, rather than resulting in the moderation of Hindu nationalism, mainstream economic ideas are adopted and adapted by its proponents to further the Hindutva project. Hence, until the 1990s, the Hindu nationalist political party, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), its earlier incarnation, the Jana Sangh, and the grass-roots organization, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), adopted and adapted mainstream ideas by emphasizing the state as the protector of (Hindu) society against markets and as a tool of societal transformation for its Hindu nationalist support base. Since the 1990s, Indian bureaucratic and political elites, including in the BJP, have adopted a view of the market as the main driver of societal transformations. Under the leadership of Narendra Modi, in particular, the BJP has sought to consolidate a broader support base and stimulate economic growth and job creation by bolstering the corporate sector and recreating the middle and ‘neo-middle’ classes as ‘virtuous market citizens’ who view themselves as entrepreneurs and consumers but whose behaviour is regulated by the framework of Hindu nationalism. These policies, however, remain contested within the Hindu nationalist movement and in Indian society generally. The BJP's discourse against ‘anti-nationals’ and the use of legal sanctions against dissent is an attempt to curb these challenges.

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Philanthronationalism: Junctures at the Business–Charity Nexus in Post‐war Sri Lanka

Cited by 19 publications

References 29 publications

LGBT Advocacy and Transnational Funding in Singapore and Malaysia

LGBT Advocacy and Transnational Funding in Singapore and Malaysia

Religion and CSR: a systematic literature review

MarketizingHindutva: The state, society, and markets in Hindu nationalism

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