The Real World of NGOs: Discourses, Diversity and Development

by Dorothea Hilhorst

Overview

Insisting on the importance of taking into account everyday practices in organizations, Hilhorst (Centre for Rural Development, Waginingen Agricultural U., the Netherlands) presents an ethnography of a NGO involved with indigenous women and development in the Philippines. She focuses on the interactions of NGO actors with others and on the interplay between official and everyday discourses. Distributed by Palgrave. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781842771648
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	05/01/2003
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

Dorothea Hilhorst is Lecturer at the Centre for Rural Development, Waginingen Agricultural University, The Netherlands.
Dorothea Hilhorst is Lecturer at the Centre for Rural Development, Waginingen Agricultural University, The Netherlands.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: The Politics of NGO-ing
2. Damning the Dams: Social Movements and NGOs
3. The Power of Discourse: NGOs, Gender and National Democratic Politics
4. Village Experts and Development Discourse: Progress in a Philippine Igorot Village
5. Modelling Development: NGO Room for Manoeuvre
6. Whose Reality Counts: Issues of NGO Accountability
7. Making Sense of NGOs: in Everyday Office Life
8. NGO Leaders: A Social Analysis of Fairly Unusual Human Beings
9. Funding Agencies and NGOs: Peeping Behind Paper Realities
10. Conclusion: NGO Everyday Politics
11. Epilogue: The Politics of Research

Editorial Reviews

Hilhorst goes beyond an unravelling of simplistic notions about NGOs and brings to life a detailed picture of everyday practices within them.” —Emma Crewe, University College London

“This study of the everyday politics of a Philippine NGO is both entertaining and hard-hitting.'” —Norman Long, Wageningen University

“This book makes a vital contribution to a critical anthropology of development and the comparative study of everyday politics.” —Vicente L. Rafael, Professor, University of Washington

“This story of indigenous women involved in transformation work provides significant insights for social activists and social scientists.” —Victoria Tauli Corpuz, Executive Director, TEBTEBBA Foundation (Indigenous Peoples' International Centre for Policy Research and Education)

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