Ngoization: Complicity, Contradictions and Prospects

ISBN-13: 9781780322575 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 248 str.

Aziz Choudry

Opis

The growth of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) at local and international levels has attracted considerable interest 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? NGOization - the professionalization and institutionalization of social action - has long been a hotly contested issue in grassroots social movements and communities of resistance. NGO-ization pulls together for the first time unique perspectives of social struggles and critically-engaged scholars from wide range of geographical and political contexts, to offer an evidence-based insight into the tensions and challenges of the NGO model while considering the feasibility of alternatives.

Spis treści

Preface by Sangeeta Kamat Introduction - NGOization: Complicity, Contradictions and Prospects - Aziz Choudry and Dip Kapoor 1. Saving Biodiversity, for Whom and for What? Conservation NGOs, Complicity, Colonialism and Conquest in an Era of Capitalist Globalization - Aziz Choudry 2. Social Action and NGOization in Contexts of Development Dispossession in Rural India: Explorations into the Un-civility of Civil Society - Dip Kapoor 3. NGOs, Indigenous Peoples and the United Nations - Sharon H. Venne 4. From Radical Movement to Conservative NGO and Back Again? A Case Study of the Democratic Left Front in South Africa - Luke Sinwell 5. Philippine NGOs: Defusing Dissent, Spurring Change - Sonny Africa 6. Disaster Relief, NGO-led Humanitarianism and the Reconfiguration of Spatial Relations in Tamil Nadu - Raja Swamy 7. Seven Theses on Neobalkanism and NGOization in Transitional Serbia - Tamara Vukov 8. Peace-building and Violence against Women: Tracking the Ruling Relations of Aid in a Women's Development NGO in Kyrgyzstan - Elena Kim and Marie Campbell 9. Alignment and Autonomy: Food Systems in Canada - Brewster Kneen