The Real World of NGOs: Discourses, Diversity and Development

Dorothea Hilhorst

ISBN 10: 1842771655 / ISBN 13: 9781842771655

Published by Zed Books April 2003, 2003

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Real World of NGOs: Discourses, Diversity and Development
• Publisher: Zed Books April 2003
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1842771655
• ISBN 13: 9781842771655
• Binding: Paper Back
• Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Political Science

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Synopsis

Against an international context where NGOs are still seen, in contrast to many official development agencies, as the saviours and sources of hope for an otherwise disappointing development process, Dorothea Hilhorst provides for the first time an empirically rooted and theoretically innovative understanding of the everyday politics, actual internal workings, organizational practices and discursive repertoires of this kind of organization.

Her evidence and insights lead to a different picture of NGOs from the one prevailing in the literature.

Hilhorst develops a model of NGOs not as clearcut organizations, but often with several different faces, fragmented, and consisting of social networks whose organizing practices remain in flux, is helpful to understanding not just these bodies, but official development agencies too.

About the Author

Dorothea Hilhorst is Lecturer at the Centre for Rural Development, Waginingen Agricultural University, The Netherlands, with specializations in development and disaster studies. She has been research and evaluation officer of the Cordillera Women's Education and Resource Centre (CWERC) in Baguio City in the Philippines (1993-1996) and Desk Officer at the Asia Desk of Cebemo, Oegstgeest, the co-financing agency of projects of NGOs in developing countries (1989-1990). She has published widely in academic journals and papers in her field.