NGOization

Complicity, Contradictions and Prospects

Aziz Choudry, Dip Kapoor

• Verlag: Zed Books
• Jahr: 2013
• ISBN:
  9781780322605
• Auflage: 1
• Thema: Social Sciences
• Thema: Global Development Studies

The growth and spread of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) at local and international levels has attracted considerable interest and attention from policy-makers, development practitioners, academics and activists around the world. But how has this phenomenon impacted on struggles for social and environmental justice? How has it challenged - or reinforced - the forces of capitalism and colonialism? And what political, economic, social and cultural interests does this serve?NGOization - the professionalization and institutionalization of social action - has long been a hotly contested issue in grassroots social movements and communities of resistance. This book pulls together for the first time unique perspectives of social struggles and critically engaged scholars from a wide range of geographical and political contexts to offer insights into the tensions and challenges of the NGO model, while considering the feasibility of alternatives.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• Cover
• About the Editors
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Preface
• Introduction: NGOization: Complicity, Contradictions and Prospects
• 1 Saving Biodiversity, for Whom and for What? Conservation NGOs, Complicity, Colonialism and Conquest in an Era of Capitalist Globalization
• 2 Social Action and NGOization in Contexts of Development Dispossession in Rural India: Explorations into the Un-civility of Civil Society
• 3 NGOs, Indigenous Peoples and the United Nations
• 4 From Radical Movement to Conservative NGO and Back Again? A Case Study of the Democratic Left Front in South Africa
• 5 Philippine NGOs: Defusing Dissent, Spurring Change
• 6 Disaster Relief, NGO-led Humanitarianism and the Reconfiguration of Spatial Relations in Tamil Nadu
• 7 Seven Theses on Neobalkanism and NGOization in Transitional Serbia
• 8 Peace-building and Violence against Women: Tracking the Ruling Relations of Aid in a Women’s Development NGO in Kyrgyzstan
• 9 Alignment and Autonomy: Food Systems in Canada
• About the Contributors
• Index