Humanitarian discourse relocated Third World poverty’s cause from colonialism to state leaders

Evidence

The humanitarians nonetheless played an important role in shifting responsibility for Third World poverty away from the legacy of colonialism and the neocolonial framework of the global economy, and onto the leaders of individual Third World states. — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 437

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to state-blame framings in development economics and postcolonial state theory the reader may know; relates to human-rights discourse about state responsibility. — 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)
• QUESTION: Worth chasing: what specific LSF texts performed this causal shift, and what rhetorical devices did they use?

Broader Connections

• Anti-Third-Worldist NGOs redirected blame for poverty onto postcolonial states themselves #corroborates (0.95) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 391
• Humanitarian discourse recast colonized people as passive objects of sympathy rather than political agents #expands (0.82) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 390
• Welfarist colonial policy substituted social justice rhetoric for political independence #expands (0.78) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 242
• Colonialist justifications recur largely unchanged in post-war development discourse #contradicts (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1590