The Real World of NGOs: Discourses, Diversity and Development

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Bloomsbury Academic, 2003 - Political Science - 257 pages

Against an international context where NGOs are still seen, in contrast to many official development agencies, as the saviours and sources of hope for an otherwise disappointing development process, Dorothea Hilhorst provides for the first time an empirically rooted and theoretically innovative understanding of the everyday politics, actual internal workings, organizational practices and discursive repertoires of this kind of organization.

Her evidence and insights lead to a different picture of NGOs from the one prevailing in the literature.

Hilhorst develops a model of NGOs not as clearcut organizations, but often with several different faces, fragmented, and consisting of social networks whose organizing practices remain in flux, is helpful to understanding not just these bodies, but official development agencies too.

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Contents

The Politics of NGOing
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Why this book? 3 An actororientation to the organization
25
NGOs Gender and National
51
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TitleThe Real World of NGOs: Discourses, Diversity and Development
Development Studies
AuthorThea Hilhorst
Editionillustrated
PublisherBloomsbury Academic, 2003
Original fromthe University of California
DigitizedNov 12, 2008
ISBN1842771647, 9781842771648
Length257 pages
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Political Science / Civics & Citizenship
  
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