Ragged Trousered Ngos: Development Work Under Neoliberalism

ISBN-13: 9780367134709 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 206 str.

Charles Buxton

Opis

Ragged Trousered NGOs is a compelling insider account of the NGO sector and wider civil society over the past 40 years, examining how and why people take collective action and engage in social development projects.

Spis treści

Introduction: A story of civil, social and political activism that starts in East London and travels to the USSR and post-soviet Russia and Central Asia  1. On time, place and youth activism, from Kyrgyzstan’s 2010 revolution to the anti-racist movement in East London in the 1970s  2. Schools of self-management: promoting an alternative urban strategy in the face of Thatcherism in the 1980s  3. International volunteering and solidarity and the fall of soviet socialism  4. NGO capacity builder: organisational development in Central Asia in the transition period  5. Improving services or promoting rights – ideological and practical dilemmas for NGOs faced with cuts to social welfare East and West  6. Working in conflict: a Gramscian and world systems analysis of NGO responses in the new hot and cold wars  7. Theories of change: new agendas of civil society, social and political activists at the international, national and local levels  Conclusion: towards 2020

O autorze

Charles Buxton was Senior Capacity Building Specialist and Regional Representative for INTRAC’s Central Asia Programme, based in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, from 2002-2018. He still lives in Bishkek, active as an independent civil society analyst and expert.