NGOization: complicity, Contradictions and Prospects

Description

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 critical scholarship 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. Machine generated contents note: 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 / Marie Campbell -- 9. Alignment and Autonomy: Food Systems in Canada / Brewster Kneen.