Anti-Third-Worldist NGOs redirected blame for poverty onto postcolonial states themselves

Evidence

The invitation framed the colloquium as a challenge to publicly accepted notions like ‘the rich world’s cows eat the soybeans of the poor’, or ’ “a new international economic order” is the only solution to under-development’. LSF was established, as an article in the Guardian noted, to counter Third Worldism, ‘which it accuses of feeding on a European guilt complex that blames all the problems of the Third World on Western economic dominance’. Such an analysis, LSF figures argued, serves to excuse those who should bear responsibility for the problems of former colonies: postcolonial states. — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 391

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the broader debate on how human-rights NGOs reframed responsibility for postcolonial poverty; links to the reader’s interest in how human-rights discourse serves the austerity/neoliberal project. — connects to: Humanitarian NGOs helped shift blame for poverty onto Third World states. — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 381; Humanitarian actors reframed underdevelopment as domestic failure to defend liberal markets. — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 423; US strategy redefined Third World poverty as self-inflicted, defeating redistributive claims. — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 425 (+5 more)
• DEFINE: Clarifies what Third Worldism meant as a target — the claim that Western dominance causes Third World poverty.

Broader Connections

• Humanitarian NGOs like LSF emerged partly to discredit Third Worldist economic critique #corroborates (0.85) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 394
• Neoliberalism induces risk-bearing then blames the victims when risk fails #exemplifies (0.75) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 351
• French social-science thinking redirected blame for poverty onto environments and germs #exemplifies (0.72) — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 148