NGOization

Choudry, Aziz and Dip Kapoor (eds) (2013) NGOization: Complicity, Contradictions and Prospects. London: Zed Books. 

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. '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 a evidence-based insight into the tensions and challenges of the NGO model while considering the feasibility of alternatives.

 

Table of Contents

Preface: Sangeeta Kamat

Introduction. NGOization: Complicity, Contradictions and Prospects
Aziz Choudry & Dip Kapoor

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 (DLF) 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. Peace-Building and Violence Against Women: Tracking the Ruling Relations of Aid in a Women's Development NGO in Kyrgyzstan
Elena Kim & Marie Campbell

8. Alignment and Autonomy: Food Systems in Canada
Brewster Kneen

9. Seven Theses on Neobalkanism and NGOization in Transitional Serbia
Tamara Vukov

About the Authors:

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.