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fennia-159961	Dzigurski, Sever; Horst, Cindy; Horst, Cindy	Discussions on locally-led humanitarian assistance amongst European INGOs and donors — shifting practices or challenging mental models? 	2025	7	.pdf	application/pdf	3996	164	32	Mental models underlying ‘localization’ Examples of mental models that have driven Western societies for centuries are linear ideas of progress where societies are malleable and progress can be socially engineered; related Eurocentric understandings of the world in binary ‘developed’-‘underdeveloped’ oppositions; the transactional, profit-based logic of cost-benefit analyses; the rational actor theory that is based on the idea that individuals are rational decision makers that act according to self-interest (based on cost-benefit analysis); and hierarchies of knowledge that favour scientific data over other forms of knowing, academic over experiential and professional knowledges. While at present, discussions on locally-led approaches often separate the realm of mental models and practical operationalisations, we argue that there are elements that connect the two — with mental models impacting ideas about technical solutions and vice versa.	cache/fennia-159961.pdf	txt/fennia-159961.txt