Aziz Choudry, Dip Kapoor

NGOization (eBook, PDF)

Complicity, Contradictions and Prospects

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781780322599
• Artikelnr.: 39085151

Autorenporträt

Aziz Choudry is assistant professor in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education at McGill University, Canada. He is co-author of Fight Back: Workplace Justice for Immigrants (Fernwood, 2009), and co-editor of Learning from the Ground Up: Global Perspectives on Social Movements and Knowledge Production (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010) and Organize! Building from the Local for Global Justice (PM Press/Between the Lines, 2012). With over 25 years of experience as a social, environmental and political activist, educator and researcher, he currently sits on the boards of the Immigrant Workers Centre, Montreal and the Global Justice Ecology Project. He is also a co-initiator and part of the editorial team of www.bilaterals.org, a website supporting resistance against bilateral free trade and investment agreements.

Dip Kapoor is professor of international education in the Department of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Alberta, Canada. He is Research Associate and Founding Member of the Centre for Research and Development Solidarity CRDS), an Adivasi (original dweller)-Dalit rural peoples' organization in Orissa, India. His relationship with the Adivasi-Dalit Ekta Abhijan (ADEA) land and forest movement in Orissa goes back to the early 1990s. Recent co-edited collections nclude: Education, PAR, and Social Change; Education, Decolonization and Development; Indigenous Knowledge and Learning in Asia/Pacific and Africa; Learning from the Ground Up: Global Perspectives on Social Movements and Knowledge Production and Globalization, Culture and Education in South Asia: Critical Excursions.

Inhaltsangabe

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