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“It’s a coffee with a purpose”: perspectives on thinking and working politically in the Pacific
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posted on 27.08.2021, 01:48 by Kayli WildKayli Wild, Linda KellyLinda Kelly, Christopher RocheChristopher RocheThinking and working politically is an approach to manoeuvring within social and political realities to achieve development goals, which some see as a new orthodoxy [Teskey 2017.Thinking and Working Politically: Are We Seeing the Emergence of a Second Orthodoxy? Governance Working Paper Series, Issue 1. Massachusetts: Abt Associates]. This research explores the practice of thinking and working politically in the Pacific, through in-depth interviews and observation with nine Pacific Islander staff working within a bilateral aid programme in Samoa,Tonga, Vanuatu, and Solomon Islands. The findings provide a rich description of what thinking and working politically entails in small,highly connected island communities, with insights into how these processes can be supported in official aid programmes.