Globalization, Philanthropy, and Civil Society

by Hammack, David C.; Heydemann, Steven

• ISBN13: 9780253353030
• ISBN10: 0253353033
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-06-01
• Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr

Summary

The essays in this book reflect pioneering efforts to study the global movement of ideas and institutions. They deal with topics of significant contemporary importance: initiatives to address the AIDS epidemic in East Africa; to protect the peoples and ecosystems of the Amazon; to advance the "truth and reconciliation" process in South Africa; to promote "civil society" in Hungary, Russia, and Kyrgyzstan; to advocate for environmental protection in the United States, Great Britain, Germany, and Japan; and to spread Rotary Clubs and encourage "social entrepreneurship" throughout the world. These essays highlight a wide range of research, paying close attention to the realities of particular situations and to current thinking about general processes.

Author Biography

David C. Hammack is Hiram C. Haydn Professor of History at Case Western Reserve University. He is editor of Making the Nonprofit Sector in the United States: A Reader (IUP, 1998).

Steven Heydemann is Vice President of the Grants and Fellowship Program at the U.S. Institute for Peace, and Adjunct and Research Associate Professor in the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University. He is author of Authoritarianism in Syria: Institutions and Social Conflict, 1946--1970.

Table of Contents

Foreword: Social Science and Philanthropic Studies	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction
Philanthropic Projections: Sending Institutional Logics Abroad	p. 3
Nongovernmental Organizations and the Making of the International Community	p. 32
Projecting Logics
Philanthropy and the "Perfect Democracy" of Rotary International	p. 47
Social Entrepreneurship: Success Stories and Logic Construction	p. 71
Moral Globalization and Discursive Struggle: Reconciliation, Transitional Justice, and Cosmopolitan Discourse	p. 95
Contesting Logics
Philanthropic Foundations in Russia: Western Projection and Local Legitimacy	p. 137
Promoting Civil Society or Diffusing NGOs? U.S. Donors in the Former Soviet Union	p. 160
Dialectics of Patronage: Logics of Accountability at the African AIDS-NGO Interface	p. 192
Transnational Logics
The Political Logic of Institutional Adaptation: NGOs' Strategies Abroad	p. 223
Exporting Institutional Logics into the Amazon? American and German Efforts to Protect the Ecosystems and Traditional Peoples of the Amazon Basin	p. 258
List of Contributors	p. 293
Index	p. 295
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