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Global Solidarity Research and Resources

  • Research and Resources on international service learning compiled by Kurt Ver Beek, Calvin College
    http://www.calvin.edu/academic/sociology/staff/kurt.htm


  • Solidarity Will Transform the World is a collection of inspiring stories of hope written by Jeffry Odell Korgen which describes how Catholic Relief Services' beneficiaries meet the challenges of extreme poverty.  On the website there is also a free Study Guide companion which is available for download.
    http://storiesofhope.crs.org/#intro

  • Representing Poverty, Impoverishing Representation? A Discursive Analysis of a NGOs Fundraising Posters is an essay on the problems NGOs face concerning the images of the developing world they use when they try to mobilize support for solidarity with developing countries.
    http://www.gjss.org/documents/vol2/issue1/Lamers.pdf