Trust Inverted: Dynamics of Trust and Power in Transnational NGO Cooperation in Burkina Faso

Melina C. Kalfelis

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Chapter 1 Trust Inverted: Dynamics of Trust and Power in Transnational NGO Cooperation in Burkina Faso

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Trust-making is commonly considered something good. Scholarship has hardly reflected on the ways it might stabilise unequal relations of power or weaken social ties. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in NGO offices in Burkina Faso, Sweden, and Switzerland, this chapter investigates trust-making within transnational NGO partnerships in West Africa. By examining the history of civil society and everyday practice of social workers in Burkina Faso, it explores the link between trust and power, to illuminate how trust-making is central to and changing through Africaâs global connections. Based on an analysis of three ethnographic examples, the chapter argues that there is an inverted side of trust-making, one that reproduces (neo)colonial hierarchies and disrupts sociality.

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Trust and Trust-Making in Africaâs Global Connections

Series:Â Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies, Volume: 36

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004734777

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 04 Apr 2025

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