“We are beckoned to see the world through a one-way mirror, as if we are threatened and innocent and the rest of humanity is threatening, or wretched, or expendable. Our memory is struggling to rescue the truth that human rights were not handed down as privileges from a parliament, or a boardroom, or an institution, but that peace is only possible with justice and with information that gives us the power to act justly.”
― John Pilger

Tuesday, December 24, 2013

A New Book: NGOization: Complicity, Contradictions and Prospects

Edited by Aziz Choudry and Dip Kapoor

GOization: Complicity, Contradictions and Prospects
Edited by Aziz Choudry and Dip Kapoor 
Zed Books
11 July 2013 Paperback ISBN: 9781780322575 248 pages 

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. 

Table of Contents

Preface by Sangeeta Kamat
Introduction - NGOization: Complicity, Contradictions and Prospects - Aziz Choudry and 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 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 - Elena Kim and Marie Campbell
9. Alignment and Autonomy: Food Systems in Canada - Brewster Kneen
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