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Reconceptualising NGO's & their Roles in Development - NGOs, Civil Society & the International Aid System (Paperback)
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Reconceptualising NGO's & their Roles in Development - NGOs, Civil Society & the International Aid System (Paperback)
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Twenty years after NGOs first emerged as objects of development
research, much of the research on non-governmental organisations
(NGOs) and development to date has been of a variable quality.
While much useful work has been done, the development NGO research
field is nonetheless characterised by a combination of an
over-identification with NGOs, an excessive emphasis on
technical/organisational issues and a lack of
theoretical-contextual analysis. The result has been work that
often bows to policy rhetoric and uncritically and unhelpfully
serves to sustain a set of myths about NGOs and their performance
-- of both a positive and a negative kind. This volume seeks to
present less well-rehearsed perspectives. Its thirteen chapters are
each written by authoritative researchers in the field. The book
has two main objectives: to describe and interpret key aspects of
NGOs' changing roles in development, and to present new analytical
approaches. A key priority is to present work that is rooted in
stronger theoretical frameworks than has previously been the case,
while still maintaining a relevance to policy and practice. The
authors represented here are critical of many of the theories and
concepts that frame the discourse on development NGOs and many of
them propose alternative analytical approaches. In particular they
seek to analytically integrate the international aid system in
theoretical schemas that seek to explain NGOs and their roles in
development. The overall aim of the book is to move forward the
critical research agenda on NGOs and development by challenging its
normative biases, using approaches drawn from a range of
disciplinary perspectives including historical ethnography,
organisational studies, political science, critical theory and
anthropology.
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