Chapter
Introduction NGOization: Complicity, Contradictions and Prospects
A non-typology and short recent history of NGOs
Grappling with NGOization
NGOs as agents of capitalist colonization of material space
The professionalization of dissent and knowledge colonization for capital
1 Saving Biodiversity, for Whom and for What? Conservation NGOs, Complicity, Colonialism and Conquest in an Era of Capitalist Globalization
Intellectual property rights and the genetic goldrush
Not seeing the forest for the trees: Silences and blinkers in environmental NGO discourse
Conservation International: Leading brand of green imperialism?
2 Social Action and NGOization in Contexts of Development Dispossession in Rural India: Explorations into the Un-civility of Civil Society
The anatomy of NGOization and the un-civility of civil society in rural contexts of development dispossession
From NGOization to social action: Prospects, possibilities and concluding reflections
Table 2.1: Lok Adhikar Manch (LAM)
3 NGOs, Indigenous Peoples and the United Nations
Indigenous Nations: Inherent rights
Non-governmental organizations
Working Group on Indigenous Peoples (WGIP)
Declaration drafting by the WGIP
Intersessional Working Groups
4 From Radical Movement to Conservative NGO and Back Again? A Case Study of the Democratic Left Front in South Africa
Politics and interventions in grassroots struggles in South Africa
The DLF’s relationship to grassroots organizations
5 Philippine NGOs: Defusing Dissent, Spurring Change
Historical sketch of Philippine NGOs
NGOs and civil society in the Philippines today
Neoliberal governance and state-NGO ties
Philippine neocolonialism and underdevelopment
6 Disaster Relief, NGO-led Humanitarianism and the Reconfiguration of Spatial Relations in Tamil Nadu
NGOs in post-tsunami reconstruction
World Vision and ‘service delivery’
Artisanal fishers and SNEHA: A background
7 Seven Theses on Neobalkanism and NGOization in Transitional Serbia
Empire lite: Military humanitarianism
Swords of empire: NGOization, democracy promotion and the new balkanism
The dance of neoliberalism and nationalism
Critiques of NGOization by activists and organizers in Serbia
The remnants of transition: Workers, displaced peoples, and privatization
Emergent potentialities, incipient struggles
8 Peace-building and Violence against Women: Tracking the Ruling Relations of Aid in a Women’s Development NGO in Kyrgyzstan
Using institutional ethnography to explicate ruling relations
Kyrgyzstan and its contemporary setting for development
The organizational setting of the research
A puzzle emerges from ethnographic data
Ruling relations and Sophia’s direction of the Network
Development NGOs and the ruling practices of peacebuilding
9 Alignment and Autonomy: Food Systems in Canada
Two essential statements about context
Breaking away, or trying to
Corporate-national policy
A closer look at the landscape and actors
Conclusion: The importance of context, or framing
NGOization
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