Social Representations of Foreign Aid: Exploring Meaning-Making in Aid Practice in Sulu, Southern Philippines

• Main Authors: de Guzman, Judith M, Montiel, Cristina Jayme
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2012
• Subjects: social representations; foreign aid; development; Mindanao; Philippines; aid practice; Psychology
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/psychology-faculty-pubs/13; https://archium.ateneo.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1012&context=psychology-faculty-pubs
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

Conceptualising foreign aid as a controversial social object, this study utilised Social Representations Theory as a social constructionist framework to understand the meanings that arise from people's social interactions in relation to foreign aid practice in a particular historical, political...