NGOization Complicity, Contradictions and Prospects

by Choudry, Aziz; Kapoor, Dip

• ISBN13: 9781780322575
• ISBN10: 1780322577
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781780322599
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2013-08-06
• Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Aziz Choudry is Assistant Professor in the Department of Education, McGill University, Canada.

Dip Kapoor is Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Policy Studies, University of Alberta, Canada. He is a voluntary Research Associate, Center for Research and Development Solidarity (CRDS), a rural people's organization in Orissa, India and President/founding member of a voluntary development organization that has been working with Adivasi (original dweller) and Dalit ('downtrodden' castes) communities on land, forest and food sovereignty struggles/movements in India since 1995.

Table of Contents

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 Kapoor3. NGOs, Indigenous Peoples and the United Nations; Sharon H. Venne4. From Radical Movement to Conservative NGO and Back Again? A Case Study of the Democratic Left Front (DLF) in South Africa; Luke Sinwell5. Philippine NGOs: Defusing Dissent, Spurring Change; Sonny Africa6. Disaster Relief, NGO-led Humanitarianism and the Reconfiguration of Spatial Relations in Tamilnadu; Raja Swamy7. Peace-Building and Violence Against Women: Tracking the Ruling Relations of Aid in a Women's Development NGO in Kyrgyzstan; Elena Kim & Marie Campbell8. Alignment and Autonomy: Food Systems in Canada; Brewster Kneen9. Seven Theses on Neobalkanism, the 'New' Military Humanitarianism, and NGOization in Transitional Serbia; Tamara Vukov