The real world of NGOs : discourses, diversity, and development /
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| Author / Creator: | Hilhorst, Thea |
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| Imprint: | London ; New York : Zed Books, c2003. |
| Description: | xii, 257 p. : ill., 1 map ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4900897 |
Table of Contents:
- Figures and tables
- Acknowledgements
- Acronyms
- Glossary
- Map
- 1. Introduction: The Politics of NGO-ing
- Why this book?
- An actor-orientation to the organization of NGOs
- Philippine NGOs: a history of turbulent politics
- Cordillera Day
- Organization of the book
- 2. Damning the Dams: Social Movements and NGOs
- Social movements: theoretical perspectives
- The Chico river struggle
- Movement for regional autonomy
- Discourse and power
- 3. The Power of Discourse: NGOs, Gender and National Democratic Politics
- Stories of NGOs in the Cordillera
- Stories of gender in the National Democratic movement
- Discourse at work
- 4. Village Experts and Development Discourse: 'Progress' in a Philippine Igorot Village
- Development discourse
- Meanings of development in Kayatuan
- The Kayatuan Ladies' Association, Inc.
- Dynamics within the KLAi
- Development discourse and social change
- 5. Modelling Development: NGO Room for Manoeuvre
- Taking it step-by-step
- Room for manoeuvre
- Luaya: constituting NGO-PO relations
- Alternative narratives in Luaya: analysis
- Attributing identity to intervening agencies
- The social life of policy models
- 6. Whose Reality Counts? Issues of NGO Accountability
- Rational and moral modes of accountability
- Accountability as a sense-making exercise
- Shattering the dream of transparency
- The case of the BPO women's weaving project
- NGO accountability
- An actor-oriented perspective on accountability
- 7. Making Sense of NGOs: in Everyday Office Life
- Tour d'office
- Locales for sense-making
- The importance of social networks
- Of backgrounds and social networks
- Questions of Philippine culture in the office
- Negotiating order in NGOs
- 8. NGO Leaders: A Social Analysis of 'Fairly Unusual Human Beings'
- Leadership in organization studies
- Composing a life
- The international delegate
- Power at the funding interface
- NGO leaders as brokers of meaning
- 9. Funding Agencies and NGOs: Peeping Behind Paper Realities
- The SPRINC programme
- Funding agent seeks indigenous woman, or vice versa?
- UNA meets the people of the Cordillera
- Problems in implementation
- The meaning of partnership
- SPRINC, NGOs and the POs
- Multiple realities of funding agencies
- 10. Conclusion: NGO Everyday Politics
- Everyday Politics
- 11. Epilogue: The Politics of Research
- History of the project
- Critique
- Bibliography
- Index