Reimagining Aid uses a multi-sited ethnography to examine aid from Japan and the United States that aims to upgrade women's health in Cambodia. The book highlights how Cambodian development actors are not just aid recipients but active participants who reshape development by blending regional “Asian" perspectives and “Western" influences. It ultimately calls for a rethinking of development aid and gender policies in an increasingly multipolar world.

Mary-Collier Wilks, PhD, is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology & Criminology at University of North Carolina-Wilmington.

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