NGOization: Complicity, Contradictions and Prospects

Aziz Choudry

ISBN 10: 1780322577 / ISBN 13: 9781780322575

Published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2013

About this Item

2013. New ed. Paperback. Drawing on global case studies, this collection challenges existing models of NGO's and offer insight into possible alternatives Editor(s): Choudry, Aziz; Kapoor, Dip. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: GTF; JKSR. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 215 x 139 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: NGOization: Complicity, Contradictions and Prospects
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1780322577
• ISBN 13: 9781780322575
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Dip Kapoor is a professor in international development education at the University of Alberta, Canada. He is also a board member at the Center for Research and Development Solidarity (CRDS), an organisation in Odisha, India which advocates for peasant and Adivasi-Dalit communities. His previous books include NGOization (Zed 2013) as well as the edited collections Beyond Colonialism, Development and Globalization (Zed 2015) and Against Colonization and Rural Dispossession (Zed 2017).