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11: Uneven Preoccupations: Motivations and Misalignments |
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Written by Leo Bartlett
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Friday, 07 December 2007 |
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In this chapter, we want to draw attention to two principal issues that arose in the study and which we have described as “uneven preoccupations”. The first focuses on the idea of misalignment of interests where interests may be motivated by a sense of self, egoism, and/or described as vested self interests. The second issue we have called the righteous Social Economy. This issue is closely related to the first because it seemed that the expression of righteousness (being upright but also including self-righteousness) we observed among many members in the sector, was also motivated by forms of self interest.
We make our comments not as any form of criticism or evaluation, but based on our interpretation, observations and participants” comments. If then, the sector has these uneven preoccupations reflected in the above two issues, how does this affect its work and social impact? |