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John Wiley & Sons Inc How Change Happens
Book SynopsisDiscover how those who change the world do so with this thoughtful and timely book Why do some changes occur, and others don''t? What are the factors that drive successful social and environmental movements, while others falter? How Change Happens examines the leadership approaches, campaign strategies, and ground-level tactics employed in a range of modern social change campaigns. The book explores successful movements that have achieved phenomenal impact since the 1980stobacco control, gun rights expansion, LGBT marriage equality, and acid rain elimination. It also examines recent campaigns that seem to have fizzled, like Occupy Wall Street, and those that continue to struggle, like gun violence prevention and carbon emissions reduction. And it explores implications for movements that are newly emerging, like Black Lives Matter. By comparing successful social change campaigns to the rest, How Change Happens reveals powerful lessons for changemakers who Table of ContentsForeword ix Introduction: How Change Happens 1 Chapter 1 Turn Grassroots Gold 21 Chapter 2 Sharpen Your 10/10/10/20 = 50 Vision 53 Chapter 3 Change Hearts and Policy 77 Chapter 4 Reckon with Adversarial Allies 103 Chapter 5 Break from Business as Usual 119 Chapter 6 Be Leaderfull 143 Conclusion: Where We Go from Here 171 Appendix A: Research Parameters 185 Appendix B: List of Interviews 189 Appendix C: Additional Resources on Movements and Systems 193 Acknowledgments 215 About the Author and GSEI 221 Index 223
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Oxford University Press Transnational Advocacy in the Digital Era
Book SynopsisWinner, International Communication Book Award, International Studies AssociationShortlisted, 2023 Susan Strange Best Book PrizeHonorable Mention, 2023 Information Technology and Politics Best Book AwardTransnational Advocacy in the Digital Era explores the role of digital advocacy organizations, a major new addition to the international arena. These organizations derive power and influence from their ability to rapidly mobilize members on-line and off-line, and are shaping public opinion on many issues including climate change, trade, and refugees. Research in international relations (IR) has highlighted the influence of non-governmental organizations, which wield power through their expertise and long-term, moral commitment to an issue. However, no IR scholars have explored the spread and power of digital advocacy organizations. Nina Hall provides a detailed investigation of how these organizations have harnessed digitally networked power and established new advocacy strategies. TheyTrade ReviewThe book reminds scholars of transnational advocacy that new forms of activism regularly challenge the dominance of traditional groups established well before the internet age. * Hans Peter Schmitz, University of San Diego, Global Perspectives *Transnational Advocacy in the Digital Era helps scholars and activists understand vital questions about when and why digital advocacy organizations choose to work transnationally. Bridging work in political communications and international relations, its incisive analysis reveals both the power and tensions inherent in the digital advocacy model. * Jennifer Hadden, University of Maryland *Transnational Advocacy in the Digital Era is groundbreaking work. Nina Hall's extensive research documents an organizational form that has gained traction across national settings. These are groups that extend beyond individual protest moments, building movement capacity and transforming it into long-term political power. This is the first book to examine such organizations through a comparative, cross-national lens. It has a lot to teach both academics and practitioners who specialize in this field. * David Karpf, George Washington University *This book importantly captures shifts in how transnational advocacy occurs even in an era when many states have restricted the ability of such organizations to operate. Hall finds that advocacy organizations see the state as the most important locus of power, and hence the target of their campaigns which are nationally based and include campaigns on elections, unlike charitable organizations which are typically precluded from doing so. These are nonetheless transnational phenomena insofar as these organizations have diffused the advocacy model of rapid-response tactics like analytic digital activism and messaging to rapidly mobilize large memberships—offline and online—rather than relying on professional staff wielding expertise over a given issue. This is an insightful handbook of new forms of advocacy in the face of changing political and technological environments for students, scholars, and practitioners. * Richard Price, The University of British Columbia *With this timely and compelling book Nina Hall brings international relations scholarship on transnational advocacy into the digital age. Hall spells out the unique nature and contributions of digital advocacy organizations, drawing on careful research on diverse organizations working on a range of issues. * Kathryn Sikkink, Harvard University *Nina Hall has identified an important new source of power in global politics and created a valuable framework for further research. * Anne-Marie Slaughter, Princeton University *Table of Contents1: Introduction 2: The Power of Digital Advocacy Organizations 3: Emulation and Propagation 4: Campaigning 5: A Transnational Network: Connect, Enhance and Collaborate 6: Trends in Transnational Campaigning: Issues, Targets, and Partners 7: Mobilizing for Climate Action 8: Member-Driven or Staff-Stewardship? 9: Conclusion Appendix References
£28.94
The University of Chicago Press Organizing Democracy How International
Book SynopsisEmerging democracies need a lot of support from international institutions, and this book analyzes the ways those organizations succeed and fail in providing that assistance.
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press Organizing Democracy How International
Book SynopsisEmerging democracies need a lot of support from international institutions, and this book analyzes the ways those organizations succeed and fail in providing that assistance.
£24.70
Columbia University Press Negotiating Governance on NonTraditional Security
Book SynopsisMely Caballero-Anthony examines how non-traditional security challenges have changed state behavior and security practices in Southeast Asia and the wider East Asia region. She analyzes how non-state actors are engaging with states, regional organizations, and institutional frameworks to address multifaceted problems.Trade ReviewMely Caballero-Anthony is a pioneer of non-traditional security studies and this is the definitive book on the subject from a Southeast Asian perspective. -- Amitav Acharya, author of Constructing a Security Community in Southeast AsiaAn intriguing analysis of an underappreciated reality: the extent to which governments and non-government actors are now effectively cooperating, collaborating and responding collectively to a multitude of non-traditional threats to human security around Southeast and East Asia – from natural disasters to health crises to environmental and migration challenges. As Mely Caballero-Anthony makes clear in this lucid, scholarly and comprehensive work, state-centric preoccupation with military threats to national security is not the only game in town. -- Gareth Evans, former foreign minister of Australia and president emeritus of the International Crisis GroupThis book features impressive research, a clear and effective framework of analysis, and insightful observations in showing why those concerned with security in Asia must go beyond the headlines of China's rise and the North Korean threats to fully understand the region's security dynamics. Specialists have long known of the importance of non-traditional security issues in the region and the leading role of non-state actors in dealing with them. Now they have a single-authored assessment providing thorough and lucid treatment of the subject that ranks with the best studies on the topic. -- Robert Sutter, George Washington UniversitySurveying an economically vibrant but also volatile region, Mely Caballero-Anthony connects the dots of the diverse security challenges Southeast Asia faces. She outlines a way of responding to them that acknowledges that security and insecurity today consist of inter-linked multiple facets. Her insights on security governance in Southeast Asia have resonance for other regions and merit wide attention. -- Dan Smith, Director of the Stockholm International Peace Research InstituteTable of ContentsPrefaceList of Abbreviations1. Security Governance in Southeast Asia and Beyond2. State and Non-State Actors and NTS Governance in Southeast Asia and Beyond3. Governance of Health Security4. Governance of Environmental Security5. Governance of Migration6. Governance of Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief Operations7. Governance of Nuclear Energy8. Governance of Food SecurityConclusion: Building Security Governance in Times of Turbulence and UncertaintyNotesBibliographyIndex
£23.80
Columbia University Press NGOs as Newsmakers
Book SynopsisMatthew Powers analyzes the growing role NGOs play in shaping—and sometimes directly producing—international news. Through an unprecedented glimpse into NGOs’ newsmaking efforts, Powers portrays the possibilities and limits of NGOs as media makers, with important implications for the intersections of journalism and advocacy.Trade ReviewPowers provides a rich analysis of the role of NGOs in shaping international news, taking a useful institutional—“on-the-ground”—perspective to supplement the more celebratory analysis by many communication scholars of digitally enabled social movements, including the Arab Spring and related online phenomena. -- Stephen Reese, University of Texas, AustinPowers offers a sharp dissection and a comprehensive analysis of the news-making strategies of global NGOs. Grounded in smart interpretations of institutional theories, the book shows the ambiguities of NGOs as news makers - the innovations as well as the limitations to broaden the content of regular news cycles. The cases discussed amply demonstrate that NGOs make decisions in fields of news shaped by multiple factors. Powers convincingly argues that NGOs do not make news as they please, but they do so under institutional circumstances existing already in a world saturated with information. -- Silvio Waisbord, George Washington UniversityMatthew Powers' NGOs as Newsmakers combines rich empirical observation, gained through interviews and field work at the Syrian-Turkish border, with sophisticated causal analysis. He compellingly shows how the dwindling resources for international coverage on the one hand and humanitarian NGOs' move toward newsmaking on the other reinforce rather than sideline professional news norms. A must read for anybody interested in the fate of cosmopolitan journalism and humanitarian aid. -- Hartmut Wessler, University of MannheimPowers has produced a landmark study of one of the complex high-stakes dynamics shaping the future of journalism. NGOs as Newsmakers is a work of theoretical nuance and empirical rigor that spotlights the ways NGOs are fueling important and original reporting while also nourishing stereotypes and power dynamics inherent to traditional news practices that have hemmed in reporting. -- Adrienne Russell, University of WashingtonScholars, editors, journalists, NGO practitioners, and policy experts would benefit from reading NGOs as Newsmakers to better understand the current state of affairs between NGOs and newsmakers. In particular, by applying the field variant of institutional theory to illuminate how journalists and NGOs vie for attention in an age of information overload. -- Allison J. Steinke, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities * Digital Journalism *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments1. A New Era of NGO-Driven News?2. The Changing Faces of NGO Communication Work3. The Partially Opening News Gates4. The Strategic Advocate in the Digital Storm5. Publicity’s Ends6. Explaining the Endurance of News Norms7. The Possibilities and Limitations of NGO CommunicationMethods AppendixNotesReferencesIndex
£70.40
Columbia University Press NGOs as Newsmakers
Book SynopsisMatthew Powers analyzes the growing role NGOs play in shaping—and sometimes directly producing—international news. Through an unprecedented glimpse into NGOs’ newsmaking efforts, Powers portrays the possibilities and limits of NGOs as media makers, with important implications for the intersections of journalism and advocacy.Trade ReviewPowers provides a rich analysis of the role of NGOs in shaping international news, taking a useful institutional—“on-the-ground”—perspective to supplement the more celebratory analysis by many communication scholars of digitally enabled social movements, including the Arab Spring and related online phenomena. -- Stephen Reese, University of Texas, AustinPowers offers a sharp dissection and a comprehensive analysis of the news-making strategies of global NGOs. Grounded in smart interpretations of institutional theories, the book shows the ambiguities of NGOs as news makers - the innovations as well as the limitations to broaden the content of regular news cycles. The cases discussed amply demonstrate that NGOs make decisions in fields of news shaped by multiple factors. Powers convincingly argues that NGOs do not make news as they please, but they do so under institutional circumstances existing already in a world saturated with information. -- Silvio Waisbord, George Washington UniversityMatthew Powers' NGOs as Newsmakers combines rich empirical observation, gained through interviews and field work at the Syrian-Turkish border, with sophisticated causal analysis. He compellingly shows how the dwindling resources for international coverage on the one hand and humanitarian NGOs' move toward newsmaking on the other reinforce rather than sideline professional news norms. A must read for anybody interested in the fate of cosmopolitan journalism and humanitarian aid. -- Hartmut Wessler, University of MannheimPowers has produced a landmark study of one of the complex high-stakes dynamics shaping the future of journalism. NGOs as Newsmakers is a work of theoretical nuance and empirical rigor that spotlights the ways NGOs are fueling important and original reporting while also nourishing stereotypes and power dynamics inherent to traditional news practices that have hemmed in reporting. -- Adrienne Russell, University of WashingtonScholars, editors, journalists, NGO practitioners, and policy experts would benefit from reading NGOs as Newsmakers to better understand the current state of affairs between NGOs and newsmakers. In particular, by applying the field variant of institutional theory to illuminate how journalists and NGOs vie for attention in an age of information overload. -- Allison J. Steinke, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities * Digital Journalism *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments1. A New Era of NGO-Driven News?2. The Changing Faces of NGO Communication Work3. The Partially Opening News Gates4. The Strategic Advocate in the Digital Storm5. Publicity’s Ends6. Explaining the Endurance of News Norms7. The Possibilities and Limitations of NGO CommunicationMethods AppendixNotesReferencesIndex
£23.80
University of Illinois Press Saving the World
Book SynopsisInvigorating global social change through communicationTrade Review"It presents in-depth policy analyses to outline a vision for how communication technologies have--and still can--impact social change and economic/cultural development. . . . McAnany builds an historical paradigm that melds technology with social entrepreneurship. "-- Communication Booknotes Quarterly "Saving the World offers a judicious integration of Emile G. McAnany's own first-hand experience with many of the seminal people and projects in communication for development. McAnany provides a very valuable understanding of the underlying structure of the field and how these ideas have been implemented and theorized."--Joseph Straubhaar, author of Media Now: Understanding Media, Culture, and Technology "All students who are just beginning will find this book an excellent introduction not only to the ideas and theories but also to the key thinkers who have helped frame the debate over the last 30 or 40 years. . . . Knowing the people and their histories gives an invaluable background to our knowledge."--Communication Research Trends "A comprehensive, ambitious history and policy analysis of the field of development communication. McAnany's grasp of the major developments, issues, and advances of this field will appeal to scholars of communication, sociology, political science, and economics."--Robert Huesca, professor of communication, Trinity University "Savings the World provides a strong history for understanding the context of efforts to use communication to spur development. McAnany's continuing push for measures that will demonstrate success or failure is welcome. This volume will be most valuable to those seeking historical context as they delve into the role of information and communication technologies for development."--International Journal of Communication "Saving the World is a fascinating examination of how earlier technologies were applied to foster social change. An easy-to-read, well-organized document; while McAnany carefully relays theory, he does it in a concise way that anyone will find accessible."--Technical Communication Table of ContentsCoverTitle PageCopyright PageContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Communication in the Lives of the Globe1. Saving the World: Beginnings of Communication for Development2. Globalization, Discourse, and Development Communication: UNESCO as Prime Mover3. Commuunication for Development: Does It Work?4. Rethinking the Paradigm: The Dependency Phase5. Another Paradigm: Participatory Communication6. Paradigm for a New Millennium: Social Entrepreneurship7. Past, Present, and Future: An Agenda for 2015 and Beyond8. The Future: Some Final ThoughtsReferencesIndexBack Cover
£77.35
University of Illinois Press The Third Sector Community Organizations NGOs
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Meghan Kallman and Terry Clark's book, The Third Sector, is a rare and valuable academic endeavor synthesizing the development of the third sector in six case countries, and it sheds light on the relationship between the state and the third sector in each country. . . . This book is a valuable addition to the third sector literature."--Social Service Review "The Third Sector is a relevant and useful book for political scientists, sociologists, legal scholars, and anthropologists interested in the relationship between states and citizen, regardless of what country/region they study." --American Review of Public Administration "A worthy addition to the bookshelves of scholars, practitioners and policy makers alike--highly recommended reading."--Voluntas"The most promising contribution of this volume lies in this set of analyses, especially the chapter on the emergence of civil society in China. By bringing attention to the growing third sectors across Asia, the book has the potential to reinvigorate the sociological study of comparative civil society development as well as nonprofit and nongovernmental organizations more broadly."--American Journal of Sociology"The book is a useful addition to a growing body of research on the third sector that is expanding around the world." --Journal of Planning Education and Research
£77.35
University of Illinois Press Saving the World
Book SynopsisInvigorating global social change through communicationTrade Review "It presents in-depth policy analyses to outline a vision for how communication technologies have--and still can--impact social change and economic/cultural development. . . . McAnany builds an historical paradigm that melds technology with social entrepreneurship. "-- Communication Booknotes Quarterly "Saving the World offers a judicious integration of Emile G. McAnany's own first-hand experience with many of the seminal people and projects in communication for development. McAnany provides a very valuable understanding of the underlying structure of the field and how these ideas have been implemented and theorized."--Joseph Straubhaar, author of Media Now: Understanding Media, Culture, and Technology"All students who are just beginning will find this book an excellent introduction not only to the ideas and theories but also to the key thinkers who have helped frame the debate over the last 30 or 40 years. . . . Knowing the people and their histories gives an invaluable background to our knowledge."--Communication Research Trends "A comprehensive, ambitious history and policy analysis of the field of development communication. McAnany's grasp of the major developments, issues, and advances of this field will appeal to scholars of communication, sociology, political science, and economics."--Robert Huesca, professor of communication, Trinity University "Savings the World provides a strong history for understanding the context of efforts to use communication to spur development. McAnany's continuing push for measures that will demonstrate success or failure is welcome. This volume will be most valuable to those seeking historical context as they delve into the role of information and communication technologies for development."--International Journal of Communication "Saving the World is a fascinating examination of how earlier technologies were applied to foster social change. An easy-to-read, well-organized document; while McAnany carefully relays theory, he does it in a concise way that anyone will find accessible."--Technical Communication
£18.89
University of Illinois Press The Third Sector
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Meghan Kallman and Terry Clark's book, The Third Sector, is a rare and valuable academic endeavor synthesizing the development of the third sector in six case countries, and it sheds light on the relationship between the state and the third sector in each country. . . . This book is a valuable addition to the third sector literature."--Social Service Review "The Third Sector is a relevant and useful book for political scientists, sociologists, legal scholars, and anthropologists interested in the relationship between states and citizen, regardless of what country/region they study." --American Review of Public Administration "A worthy addition to the bookshelves of scholars, practitioners and policy makers alike--highly recommended reading."--Voluntas"The most promising contribution of this volume lies in this set of analyses, especially the chapter on the emergence of civil society in China. By bringing attention to the growing third sectors across Asia, the book has the potential to reinvigorate the sociological study of comparative civil society development as well as nonprofit and nongovernmental organizations more broadly."--American Journal of Sociology"The book is a useful addition to a growing body of research on the third sector that is expanding around the world." --Journal of Planning Education and Research
£17.99
Indiana University Press The Politics of Suffering
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewNell Gabiam's The Politics of Suffering is a deep anthropological engagement with the politics of citizenship and the practices of othering as it relates to the Palestinian refugee camps in Syria. In a time of a major refugee crisis world-wide, this book is a must read for anyone interested in understanding the shape of the needed global humanitarian response to these increasingly normalized conditions. -- Nezar AlSayyadGabiam's The Politics of Suffering takes us deep into the world of Palestinian refugees in Syria, an understudied and for the present inaccessible area for further research. Through her innovative and original work on the architecture of camp life she unfolds the confluence between humanitarian aid and development alongside the politics of the right of return and citizenship. A highly readable and informative book for the student of the Middle East and refugee studies in general. * Journal of Islamic Studies *Nell Gabiam's timely and original book makes an excellent contribution to the limited literature on Palestinian refugees in Syria. . . . A highly readable and informative book for the student of the Middle East and refugee studies in general. * Antipode *Gabiam's nuanced study of Syria's Palestinian community is an engaging and informative read. * Journal of Palestine Studies *The Politics of Suffering should earn a place on syllabi of courses in applied anthropology and the anthropology of the Middle East as well as the anthropology of migration. It makes critical contributions to those fields and opens up new conversations about the relations among refugeeness, place, and politics. * American Ethnologist * The Politics of Suffering is clearly written and accessible to a wide audience interested in refugee and diaspora studies, humanitarianism and development studies, and/or Palestinian studies. It can be effectively taught in both undergraduate and graduate courses addressing these topics. * City & Society *Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Informal Citizens: Palestinian Refugees in Syria2. From Humanitarianism to Development: UNRWA and Palestinian Refugees3. Sumūd and Sustainability: Reinterpreting Development in Palestinian Refugee Camps4. "Must We Live in Barracks to Convince People We Are Refugees?": The Politics of Camp Improvement5. "A Camp Is a Feeling Inside": Urbanization and the Boundaries of Palestinian Refugee IdentityConclusion: Beyond Suffering and VictimhoodEpilogue
£59.50
Indiana University Press The Politics of Suffering
Book SynopsisThe Politics of Suffering examines the confluence of international aid, humanitarian relief, and economic development within the space of the Palestinian refugee camp. Nell Gabiam describes the interactions between UNRWA, the United Nations agency charged with providing assistance to Palestinians since the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, and residents of three camps in Syria. Over time, UNRWA's management of the camps reveals a shift from an emphasis on humanitarian aid to promotion of self-sufficiency and integration of refugees within their host society. Gabiam's analysis captures two forces in tension within the camps: politics of suffering that serves to keep alive the discourse around the Palestinian right of return; and politics of citizenship expressed through development projects that seek to close the divide between the camp and the city. Gabiam offers compelling insights into the plight of Palestinians before and during the Syrian war, which has led to devastation in the camps and masTrade ReviewNell Gabiam's The Politics of Suffering is a deep anthropological engagement with the politics of citizenship and the practices of othering as it relates to the Palestinian refugee camps in Syria. In a time of a major refugee crisis world-wide, this book is a must read for anyone interested in understanding the shape of the needed global humanitarian response to these increasingly normalized conditions. -- Nezar AlSayyadGabiam's The Politics of Suffering takes us deep into the world of Palestinian refugees in Syria, an understudied and for the present inaccessible area for further research. Through her innovative and original work on the architecture of camp life she unfolds the confluence between humanitarian aid and development alongside the politics of the right of return and citizenship. A highly readable and informative book for the student of the Middle East and refugee studies in general. * Journal of Islamic Studies *Nell Gabiam's timely and original book makes an excellent contribution to the limited literature on Palestinian refugees in Syria. . . . A highly readable and informative book for the student of the Middle East and refugee studies in general. * Antipode *Gabiam's nuanced study of Syria's Palestinian community is an engaging and informative read. * Journal of Palestine Studies *The Politics of Suffering should earn a place on syllabi of courses in applied anthropology and the anthropology of the Middle East as well as the anthropology of migration. It makes critical contributions to those fields and opens up new conversations about the relations among refugeeness, place, and politics. * American Ethnologist * The Politics of Suffering is clearly written and accessible to a wide audience interested in refugee and diaspora studies, humanitarianism and development studies, and/or Palestinian studies. It can be effectively taught in both undergraduate and graduate courses addressing these topics. * City & Society *Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Informal Citizens: Palestinian Refugees in Syria2. From Humanitarianism to Development: UNRWA and Palestinian Refugees3. Sumūd and Sustainability: Reinterpreting Development in Palestinian Refugee Camps4. "Must We Live in Barracks to Convince People We Are Refugees?": The Politics of Camp Improvement5. "A Camp Is a Feeling Inside": Urbanization and the Boundaries of Palestinian Refugee IdentityConclusion: Beyond Suffering and VictimhoodEpilogue
£21.59
Indiana University Press Historians and Historical Societies in the Public
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsNote on TransliterationList of AbbreviationsIntroduction 1. From Associations of the Educated to Societies for Education: Historical Background2. Historical Societies at the Juncture of Scholarship, Politics, and Education3. From the University Societies to the "University Extension:" Historians as Public Activists4. The Society of Zealots of Russian Historical Education: Conservative Activism and the Quest for Useful History Conclusion: Voluntary Historical Societies in the Fin-de-Siècle Associational World BibliographyIndex
£48.60
Indiana University Press Hosting States and Unsettled Guests
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Hosting States and Unsettled Guests unpacks the complex temporalities of migration. Temporal discombobulation begins under repressive rule in Eritrea. In Ethiopia, refugees' briefly-regained agency is lost in the face of sluggish humanitarian bureaucracy, and troubled relations with the unstable host country. In deftly documenting refugee agency, precarious journeys, and the systemic odds migrants encounter, Riggan and Poole make tremendous contributions to refugee studies and studies of the contemporary Horn of Africa."—Awet T. Weldemichael, Queen's University-Canada, author of Author of Piracy in Somalia."In this exemplary ethnography, replete with vivid details and theoretical nuance, Riggan and Poole analyze how Eritrean refugees weather Ethiopia's shifting paradigms of refugee management and pursue pragmatic visions of their possible futures in a time of political and economic instability. This book is a deft and absorbing piece of anthropological and international scholarship."—Lesley Bartlett, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Co-Editor of Humanizing Education for Refugee and Immigrant Youth"The book provides detailed, nuanced, and critical perspectives on some of the most important challenges of refugee life and refugee policy today: what it means to live as a refugee, how to work with host countries in the global south to ensure refugee's rights and needs are met, how to design education and economic opportunities for refugees, and how to ensure refugees' hopes and dreams for the future are not cruelly disregarded or undermined."—Lauren Carruth, author of Love and Liberation"In a detailed ethnography that profoundly reconceptualizes time and temporality, Riggan and Poole show us the political reality and predicament of life and struggle in refugee camps in northern Ethiopia. This book is a welcome contribution to the field of forced migration studies."—-Shahram Khosravi, author of Precarious Lives: Waiting and Hope in Iran"Through the moving stories that they collected between 2016 and 2019, Riggan and Poole's engaging ethnography traces the fate of Eritrean refugees in a very unstable Ethiopia. The authors brilliantly examine how temporality (and not just spatiality) plays key roles in understanding Eritrean refugees' everyday lives in refugee camps and urban settings in the years that led up to a devastating war. The authors unveil how Eritrean refugees inescapably experience temporal suffering and teleological violence within these structural barriers, while their present becomes ungraspable and thus unmovable."—Sabina M. Perrino, Binghamton University, SUNY
£59.40
Indiana University Press Hosting States and Unsettled Guests
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Hosting States and Unsettled Guests unpacks the complex temporalities of migration. Temporal discombobulation begins under repressive rule in Eritrea. In Ethiopia, refugees' briefly-regained agency is lost in the face of sluggish humanitarian bureaucracy, and troubled relations with the unstable host country. In deftly documenting refugee agency, precarious journeys, and the systemic odds migrants encounter, Riggan and Poole make tremendous contributions to refugee studies and studies of the contemporary Horn of Africa."—Awet T. Weldemichael, Queen's University-Canada, author of Author of Piracy in Somalia."In this exemplary ethnography, replete with vivid details and theoretical nuance, Riggan and Poole analyze how Eritrean refugees weather Ethiopia's shifting paradigms of refugee management and pursue pragmatic visions of their possible futures in a time of political and economic instability. This book is a deft and absorbing piece of anthropological and international scholarship."—Lesley Bartlett, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Co-Editor of Humanizing Education for Refugee and Immigrant Youth"The book provides detailed, nuanced, and critical perspectives on some of the most important challenges of refugee life and refugee policy today: what it means to live as a refugee, how to work with host countries in the global south to ensure refugee's rights and needs are met, how to design education and economic opportunities for refugees, and how to ensure refugees' hopes and dreams for the future are not cruelly disregarded or undermined."—Lauren Carruth, author of Love and Liberation"In a detailed ethnography that profoundly reconceptualizes time and temporality, Riggan and Poole show us the political reality and predicament of life and struggle in refugee camps in northern Ethiopia. This book is a welcome contribution to the field of forced migration studies."—-Shahram Khosravi, author of Precarious Lives: Waiting and Hope in Iran"Through the moving stories that they collected between 2016 and 2019, Riggan and Poole's engaging ethnography traces the fate of Eritrean refugees in a very unstable Ethiopia. The authors brilliantly examine how temporality (and not just spatiality) plays key roles in understanding Eritrean refugees' everyday lives in refugee camps and urban settings in the years that led up to a devastating war. The authors unveil how Eritrean refugees inescapably experience temporal suffering and teleological violence within these structural barriers, while their present becomes ungraspable and thus unmovable."—Sabina M. Perrino, Binghamton University, SUNY
£22.49
MH - Indiana University Press Undermining Development
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviations1. The Powerful and the Powerless: Understanding NGOs in Development2. NGO Power3. The Power of Local NGOs in Zimbabwe4. The Power of Local NGOs in Tanzania5. The Power of Local NGOs in Senegal6. Why Power is Crucial to NGOs7. Powerful NGOs, Sustainable NGOs8. Helping Local NGOs in Africa to Develop PowerBibliographyIndex
£831.51
MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Whose Agency The Politics and Practice of Kenyas
Book SynopsisBy focusing on one particular type of NGO - those organized to help prevent the spread and transmission of HIV in Kenya - Megan Hershey interrogates the ways NGOs achieve (or fail to achieve) their planned outcomes. Along the way, she examines the slippery slope that is often used to define ""success"".Trade Review“In vivid detail, Hershey provides the rare, truly nuanced view of development interventions. She argues that small, local NGOs can be successful emissaries of HIV/AIDS programming, even while they fail to achieve the true participatory development for which such NGOs are most lauded. A must-read for researchers interested in the on-the-ground politics of development program implementation.”—Jennifer Brass, Indiana University
£63.00
Taylor & Francis Routledge Handbook of NGOs and International
Book SynopsisOffering insights from pioneering new perspectives in addition to well-established traditions of research, this Handbook considers the activities not only of advocacy groups in the environmental, feminist, human rights, humanitarian, and peace sectors, but also the array of religious, professional, and business associations that make up the wider non-governmental organization (NGO) community. Including perspectives from multiple world regions, the book takes account of institutions in the Global South, alongside better-known structures of the Global North. International contributors from a range of disciplines cover all the major aspects of research into NGOs in International Relations to present: a comprehensive overview of the historical evolution of NGOs, the range of structural forms and international networks coverage of major theoretical perspectives illustrations of how NGOs are influential inTrade Review"This timely and important book provides a comprehensive and compelling look at the role of NGOs in international relations. Pushing against disciplinary silos, it brings together a first rate group of scholars to reflect upon the role of NGOs in a vast number of issue areas and regions of the world. It is essential reading for everyone interested in ‘politics beyond the state’." Erin Hannah, King's University College, Western University, Canada. "An comprehensive and timely collection of essays about the growing and crucial role of non-state actors in world politics. Routledge Handbook of NGOs and International Relations has insights for politicians, pundits, and the public as well as analysts of global governance. This excellent overview provides one-stop shopping for a phenomenon that challenges the contours of our understanding about contemporary transnational interactions." Thomas G. Weiss, The CUNY Graduate Center, New York, USA. Table of ContentsIntroducing NGOs and International Relations PART I: History and Contributions 1. The Emergence of NGOs as Actors on the World Stage 2. NGOs’ Interactions with States 3. NGOs in Global Governance 4. Transnational Non-State Politics PART II: Theory and Analysis 5. Constituting NGOs 6. Rationalist Explanations for NGOs 7. NGOs and Post-Positivism: Two Likely Friends? 8. NGOs in Constructivist International Relations Theory 9. The Aesthetic Politics of NGOs 10. NGOs and Social Movement Theory 11. International NGOs in Development Studies 12. NGOs and Management Studies 13. NGOs in International Law: Reconsidering Personality and Participation (again) 14. Voluntaristics: Global Research on NGOs and the Non-Profit Sector 15. Primary Data on NGOs: Pushing the Bounds of Present Possibilities PART III: Issue-Areas and Sectors 16. Feminist Politics and NGO Mobilization: Can NGOs Degender Global Governance? 17. NGOs and Labour 18. NGOs and Human Rights 19. Humanitarian NGOs 20. Five Generations of NGOs in Education: From Humanitarianism to Global Capitalism 21. The Roles of the Citizen Sector in Health and Public Health 22. NGOs and Peace 23. NGOs and the Environment 24. Civil Society, Expert Communities, and Private Standards 25. An Uncomfortable Relationship: NGOs, Trade Associations, and the Development of Industry Self-Regulation 26. NGOs and Global Trade 27. NGOs and Professions 28. Religiously Affiliated NGOs PART IV: Regional Perspectives 29. Transnational NGOs in the United States 30. NGOs in the European Union 31. The Non-Profit Sector in Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia 32. NGOs in East and Southeast Asia 33. NGOs, Democracy and Development in Latin America 34. Civil Societies and NGOs in the Middle East and North Africa: The Cases of Egypt and Tunisia 35. NGOs in Sub-Saharan Africa: Potentials, Constraints and Diverging Experiences 36. NGOs in South Asia PART V: Contemporary Challenges 37. Democracy and NGOs 38. NGOs and Authoritarianism 39. NGOs and Security in Conflict Zones 40. NGOs and the Challenge of Global Terrorism 41. International NGO Legitimacy: Challenges and Responses 42. NGO Accountability
£36.09
The University of Michigan Press When Women Have Wings
Book SynopsisOffers a look at the tensions, contradictions, and positive moments apparent in one Women's Culture Center in Madellin, Columbia. This book depicts the frailty and complexity of cross-class organizing, and the ways this process may be threatened by professionalized NGO styles.Trade ReviewBy offering a fine-grained, engaging and provocative account of the workings of feminist Non-Governmental Organizations and their working-class women constituencies, When Women Have Wings fills a gaping lacuna in the now expansive literature on women's movements in the Global South. - Sonia E. Alverez, University of Massachusetts Amherst
£28.23
LUP - University of Michigan Press The Distinction of Peace
Book SynopsisInvestigates the genesis of peacebuilding as a professional field of expertise since the 1960s, its increasing influence, and the ways it reflects global power structures. Catherine Goetze describes how the peacebuilding field came into being, how it defines who belongs to it and who does not, and what kind of group culture it has generated.Trade ReviewGoetze’s contribution should be relevant and inspiring both for scholars interested in peacekeeping and in international political sociology.."" - Anna Leander, Copenhagen Business School
£23.70
LUP - University of Michigan Press The Distinction of Peace A Social Analysis of
Book SynopsisInvestigates the genesis of peacebuilding as a professional field of expertise since the 1960s, its increasing influence, and the ways it reflects global power structures. Catherine Goetze describes how the peacebuilding field came into being, how it defines who belongs to it and who does not, and what kind of group culture it has generated.Trade ReviewGoetze’s contribution should be relevant and inspiring both for scholars interested in peacekeeping and in international political sociology.."" - Anna Leander, Copenhagen Business School
£50.30
Harvard University Press Raising the World
Book SynopsisSara Fieldston shows how humanitarian child welfare agencies sponsored by Americans filtered political power through the prism of familial love after World War II. These well-meaning institutions shaped perceptions of the United States as the benevolent parent in a family of nations, and helped to expand American hegemony around the globe.Trade ReviewFieldston should be commended for providing a long overdue synthesis of U.S. voluntary child-saving agencies during the Cold War. Her book is a very successful contextualization of how U.S. charities such as the Christian Children’s Fund, fueled by the desire to care for wartime dependents and participate in the larger narrative of containment through emulation of the U.S., used foster parenting by sponsorship to export U.S. ideas about democracy and the family. -- M. E. Birk * Choice *This remarkable book brings private humanitarianism into the story of American global power during the Cold War. Moved to relieve suffering and express their commitment to love, peace, and international friendship, ordinary Americans and child welfare professionals ran headlong into the controversies of U.S. foreign and military policy. From postwar Europe and Japan to Korea and Vietnam, Fieldston shows us what happened when Americans and their government agreed that saving the world’s children was the foundation of reconstructing nations and remaking the world. -- Ellen Herman, author of Kinship by Design: A History of Adoption in the Modern United StatesRaising the World is a major contribution, showing us the affective side of Cold War–era modernization theory. To inoculate poorer nations from communism, Americans embarked on a host of programs overseas. Sound emotional development and individual happy childhoods, these liberal reformers believed, were essential to world peace. A fascinating, nuanced study, Fieldston’s book is essential reading for those who want a better understanding of how ordinary Americans become invested in the project of American hegemony. -- Naoko Shibusawa, author of America’s Geisha Ally: Reimagining the Japanese Enemy
£33.96
Princeton University Press Rethinking Private Authority
Book SynopsisDrawing on a wealth of empirical evidence spanning a century of environmental rule making, the author shows how the delegation of authority to private actors has played a small but consistent role in multilateral environmental agreements over the years, largely in the area of treaty implementation.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2015 Lynton Keith Caldwell Prize, Science, Technology, and Environmental Politics Section of the American Political Science Association Winner of the 2014-2015 Harold and Margaret Sprout Award, Environmental Studies Section of the International Studies Association Winner of the 2015 Levine Prize, International Political Science Association's Research Committee on the Structure and Organization of Government "In this pioneering work, Green explores how governmental and private actors can work together to institute regulations to address global environmental problems... [I]ts conclusions have implications for the entire field of international relations. The work is carefully argued, clearly written, and supported by an extensive bibliography."--Choice "The author has to be acclaimed for her ability to wade through hundreds if not thousands of documents, verify their authenticity and reach conclusions on the variety of measures taken by the private sector in cooperation with governments, international organisations or independently, to discharge their responsibility toward containing emissions."--Madras Sivaraman, International Journal of Environmental Studies "[Green] offer[s] novel and insightful empirical descriptions of the operation of private authority in contemporary global governance."--Elizabeth Acorn, Global Law Books "Offer[s] a persuasive framework for identifying and analyzing private authority at the international level. The usefulness of the framework is illustrated here by extended empirical studies."--Kathryn Hochstetler, Perspectives on PoliticsTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Acronyms xiii Introduction 1 Chapter 1. A Theory of Private Authority 26 Chapter 2. Agents of the State: A Century of Delegation in International Environmental Law 54 Chapter 3. Governors of the Market: The Evolution of Entrepreneurial Authority 78 Chapter 4. Atmospheric Police: Delegated Authority in the Clean Development Mechanism 104 Chapter 5. Atmospheric Accountants: Entrepreneurial Authority and the Greenhouse Gas Protocol 132 Chapter 6. Conclusion 163 Bibliography 183 Index 207
£74.80
Princeton University Press The Power of Organizations
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Sharp and information-rich. . . . [The Power of Organizations] offers a comprehensive, detailed glimpse of what contemporary organizational theory has become."---Brayden G. King, Administrative Science Quarterly
£80.00
Princeton University Press The Power of Organizations
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Sharp and information-rich. . . . [The Power of Organizations] offers a comprehensive, detailed glimpse of what contemporary organizational theory has become."---Brayden G. King, Administrative Science Quarterly
£25.50
University Press of Kansas Celebrity Influence Politics Persuasion and
Book SynopsisWhy should we listen to celebrities like Bono or Angelina Jolie when they endorse a politician or take a position on an issue? Do we listen to them? In this book Mark Harvey takes a close look into the phenomenon of celebrity advocacy in an attempt to determine the nature of celebrity influence, and the source and extent of its power.Trade ReviewCelebrity politicians and politicized celebrities have had a vital impact upon politics within the first two decades of the 21st century. Mark Harvey’s important new book provides a theoretically informed and empirically grounded account of this phenomenon. His qualitative and quantitative analysis concerning the political effects of celebrity engagement is especially welcome due to it terrific level of detail. Moreover, Harvey’s insightful account is particularly prescient in the light of the ultimate celebrity politician Donald Trump’s ascendency to the office of the Presidency of the United States."" - Mark Wheeler, Professor of Political Communications London Metropolitan University""In Celebrity Influence Mark Harvey makes a persuasive case for the power of celebrities to shape the national conversation. Harvey offers a detailed and historically rich context through which to understand how entertainers and athletes channel their fame and credibility with audiences into political action. In an era when show business and politics have become increasingly intertwined, Harvey presents a timely analysis of an underappreciated topic."" - Alan Schroeder, author of Presidential Debates: Risky Business on the Campaign Trail
£38.66
Pluto Press The Politics of Human Rights
Book SynopsisA new edition of this popular introduction to the politics of human rights.Table of ContentsForeword 1. The Politics of Universal Human Rights 2. The Discourse of Universal Human Rights 3. International Human Rights Law and Global Politics 4. The Political Economy of Human Rights 5. Globalisation, Democracy and Human Rights 6. The Promise of Global Community and Human Rights Bibliography Index
£24.29
Edinburgh University Press A Glossary of the European Union
Book SynopsisThis A-Z guide will explain the key concepts and institutions linked to the European Union, along with brief biographies of the leading figures related to the foundation and development of the EU. This will allow students to relate some of the theoretical concepts with the people who introduced them.Trade ReviewAn excellent book that is well written and which benefits from being comprehensive enough to answer the majority of the questions that someone might seek answers for; at the same time it is brief and clear enough to get these points across... A very useful addition to the literature on the EU which will be particularly welcomed by undergraduate and A-level students as well as a non-academic audience. -- Alasdair Blair, Coventry University Political Studies Review An excellent book that is well written and which benefits from being comprehensive enough to answer the majority of the questions that someone might seek answers for; at the same time it is brief and clear enough to get these points across... A very useful addition to the literature on the EU which will be particularly welcomed by undergraduate and A-level students as well as a non-academic audience.
£17.09
McGill-Queen's University Press A House of Ones Own The Moral Economy of
Book SynopsisAn intimate study of everyday humanitarianism in post-earthquake El Salvador.Trade Review"A House of One's Own provides an excellent, grounded, and accessible ethnographic analysis of the work of aid organizations on the ground." Roberto E. Barrios, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, and author of Governing Affect: Neoliberalism and Disaster Reconstruction
£25.19
University of British Columbia Press State of Exchange Migrant NGOs and the Chinese
Book SynopsisThis exploration of the interactive relationship between Chinese NGOs and the Chinese state provides fresh insights into how the Chinese government operates and why it needs non-governmental organizations to survive.Trade ReviewWith its multifaceted approach, this book is a must read for researchers and students of state–society relations in China and beyond. -- Anja Ketels * International Society for Third Sector Research *[Hsu] carries out rigorous academic analysis to explore in case studies in both Beijing and Shanghai how the central government, the municipal government, street neighborhood entities, and residents’ committees interact to address issues involving migrant workers … This well-done study contributes to understanding Chinese politics and, more generally, how local governmental units operate with some independence under authoritarian central governments. -- J. A. Rhodes, Luther College * CHOICE *Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Moving Towards a Spatial Framework2 Understanding Non-Governmental Organizations in China3 Symbolic Cooperation4 Asymmetric Cooperation5 Strategic Cooperation6 Foray in Spaces New and OldConclusionAppendices; Notes; References; Index
£51.00
Cornell University Press Remembering Stalins Victims
Book SynopsisIn Remembering Stalin's Victims, Kathleen E. Smith examines how government reformers' repudiation of Stalin's repressions both in the 1950s and in the 1980s created new political crises. Drawing on interviews, she tells the stories of citizens and officials in conflict over the past. She also addresses the underlying question of how societies...Trade ReviewThe Memorial Society, founded in the late 1980s, provides a focus for Kathleen E. Smith's book. Memorial's value as a forum for liberals of many kinds, its role in conscience-raising in the critical years of glastnost' and its efforts to recover and publish the details of Stalin's repressions are vividly researched. Smith discusses its membership and their motivations at different points.... Her discussion of Memorial is grounded in an awareness of the earlier history of rehabilitation, with Khrushchev's abortive thaw and the twilight world of dissidents receiving careful appraisal. The book is well written, attractively illustrated (many of the pictures come from Memorial's own archive) and based on extensive primary research, including visits to an impressive and widely scattered range of provincial Russian and other former Soviet towns. Smith has interviewed several of the key players in her story, as well as reviewing archival, literary, and other published sources. The result is a balanced and intelligent commentary on Memorial and its antecedents. * Slavonic and East European Review *The sociologist Kathleen E. Smith, in her work on popular memory and the Stalinist past, provides a kind of 'thick description' of the mutual influence of historiography, politics, and the public sphere in the last years of the USSR.... Her book, which is extraordinarily lively, also provides concrete examples about the way local authorities reacted to the Memorial Society either through accommodation or confrontation, and this clarifies the general conditions governing the relationship between the informal sector and the authorities in a time of flux. * Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History *
£42.30
Cornell University Press Humanitarianism in Question
Book SynopsisYears of tremendous growth in response to complex emergencies have left a mark on the humanitarian sector. Various matters that once seemed settled are now subjects of intense debate. What is humanitarianism? Is it limited to the provision of relief to victims of conflict, or does it include broader objectives such as human rights, democracy promotion, development, and peacebuilding? For much of the last century, the principles of humanitarianism were guided by neutrality, impartiality, and independence. More recently, some humanitarian organizations have begun to relax these tenets. The recognition that humanitarian action can lead to negative consequences has forced humanitarian organizations to measure their effectiveness, to reflect on their ethical positions, and to consider not only the values that motivate their actions but also the consequences of those actions. In the indispensable Humanitarianism in Question, Michael Barnett and Thomas G. Weiss bring together scholaTrade ReviewThis is a superb survey of the rise and challenges of international humanitarianism assistance. The book chronicles the remarkable post-Cold War emergence of a global system of humanitarian relief—a system complete with doctrines, organizations, and extensive field operations. But it is also a system under stress, working increasingly with little guidance or support in war-torn societies.... The authors in this collection step back from these developments to ask first-order questions about the purposes and principles of humanitarianism.... This book will long be an essential guide to the theory and politics of global humanitarianism. -- G. John Ikenberry * Foreign Affairs *Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations1. Humanitarianism: A Brief History of the Present - MICHAEL BARNETT AND THOMAS G. WEISS 2. The Rise of Emergency Relief Aid - JAMES D. FEARON 3. The Imperative to Reduce Suffering: Charity, Progress, and Emergencies in the Field of Humanitarian Action - CRAIG CALHOUN 4. Saying "No" to Wal-Mart? Money and Morality in Professional Humanitarianism - STEPHEN HOPGOOD 5. Humanitarian Organizations: Accountable-Why, to Whom, for What, and How? - JANICE GROSS STEIN 6. The Grand Strategies of Humanitarianism - MICHAEL BARNLTT AND JACK SNYDER 7. The Power of Holding Humanitarianism in Hostage and the Myth of Protective Principles - LAURA HAMMOND 8. Sacrifice, Triage, and Global Humanitarianism - PETER REDFIELD 9. The Distributive Commitments of International NGOs - JENNIFER C. RUBENSTEIN 10. Humanitarianism as a Scholarly Vocation - MICHAEL BARNETT 11. Humanitarianism and Practitioners: Social Science Matters - PETER J. HOFFMAN AND THOMAS G. WEISSContributors Index
£91.80
Cornell University Press Red to Green
Book SynopsisEnvironmental activism in contemporary Russia exemplifies both the promise and the challenge facing grassroots politics in the post-Soviet period. In the late Soviet period, Russia''s environmental movement was one of the country''s most dynamic and effective forms of social activism, and it appeared well positioned to influence the direction and practice of post-Soviet politics. At present, however, activists scattered across Russia face severe obstacles to promoting green issues that range from wildlife protection and nuclear safety to environmental education.Based on fifteen months of fieldwork in five regions of Russia, from the European west to Siberia and the Far East, Red to Green goes beyond familiar debates about the strength and weakness of civil society in Russia to identify the contradictory trends that determine the political influence of grassroots movements. In an organizational analysis of popular mobilization that addresses the continuing role of the Soviet lTrade Review"Laura A. Henry has produced a richly detailed book that introduces readers to the history and contemporary evolution of the Russian environmental movement. Through her analysis we learn how environmental organizations navigate Soviet legacies and post-Soviet opportunities as they seek to secure financial resources, engage the public and the state, and achieve their goals. Red to Green is an important book for scholars of Russian environmentalism as well as those interested in environmental activism, transnationalism, and civil society development."—JoAnn Carmin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology"Red to Green is a very carefully researched and meticulous study of environmental movements in post-Soviet Russia. It is well written and theoretically sophisticated. It fills an important gap in the existing literature on comparative environmental activism."—Jane I. Dawson, Virginia Eason Weinmann '51 Professor of Government, Connecticut College
£81.00
Cornell University Press Ghostworkers and Greens
Book SynopsisThroughout the twentieth century, despite compelling evidence that some pesticides posed a threat to human and environmental health, growers and the USDA continued to favor agricultural chemicals over cultural and biological forms of pest control. In Ghostworkers and Greens, Adam Tompkins reveals a history of unexpected cooperation between farmworker groups and environmental organizations. Tompkins shows that the separate movements shared a common concern about the effects of pesticides on human health. This enabled bridge-builders within the disparate organizations to foster cooperative relationships around issues of mutual concern to share information, resources, and support.Nongovernmental organizations, particularly environmental organizations and farmworker groups, played a key role in pesticide reform. For nearly fifty years, these groups served as educators, communicating to the public scientific and experiential information about the adverse effects of pesticides on hTrade ReviewAdam Tompkins provides a useful addition to the literature on alliances between environmentalists and workers in this study documenting the shifting coalitions between greens and farmworkers to fight pesticide poisoning in the Southwest and Florida. Noting that neither movement could defeat the agricultural and chemical lobbies on their own, he argues "that bridge-builders transcended differences between organizations and ably negotiated the cultural terrain of diverse movements to foster working relationships" (p. 10). In doing so, Ghostworkers and Greens is an important story in this growing body of scholarship. -- Erik Loomis, University of Rhode Island * Oxford University Press Journals: Environmental History *Tompkins builds a compelling argument that respective organization leaders sought and achieved significant, if still limited, cooperation in campaigns to regulate pesticide use in the U.S.... Tompkins' close attention to the interplay between policy dynamics and organizing strategies has timely insights not only for scholars of labor and environmental issues, but also for organizers who seek to build strategic coalitions across groups. * Polar: Political & Legal Anthropology Review *Table of ContentsConfronting the Consequences of the Pesticide Paradigm 1. Sowing the Seeds of Chemical Dependency 2. Hidden Hands of the Harvest 3. The Budding Movement for Pesticide Reform, 1962–1972 4. Movements in Transition: Environmentalists, Farmworkers, and the Regulatory State, 1970–1976 5. A Different Kind of Border War: Arizona, 1971–1986 6. Resisting Rollbacks: California, 1982–1990 7. From the Ground Up: Fumigants, Ozone, and Health Diversity and Unity in the Pesticide Reform Movement
£91.80
MB - Cornell University Press Humanitarianism in Question
Book SynopsisYears of tremendous growth in response to complex emergencies have left a mark on the humanitarian sector. Various matters that once seemed settled are now subjects of intense debate. What is humanitarianism? Is it limited to the provision of relief...Trade ReviewThis is a superb survey of the rise and challenges of international humanitarianism assistance. The book chronicles the remarkable post-Cold War emergence of a global system of humanitarian relief—a system complete with doctrines, organizations, and extensive field operations. But it is also a system under stress, working increasingly with little guidance or support in war-torn societies.... The authors in this collection step back from these developments to ask first-order questions about the purposes and principles of humanitarianism.... This book will long be an essential guide to the theory and politics of global humanitarianism. -- G. John Ikenberry * Foreign Affairs *Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations1. Humanitarianism: A Brief History of the Present - MICHAEL BARNETT AND THOMAS G. WEISS 2. The Rise of Emergency Relief Aid - JAMES D. FEARON 3. The Imperative to Reduce Suffering: Charity, Progress, and Emergencies in the Field of Humanitarian Action - CRAIG CALHOUN 4. Saying "No" to Wal-Mart? Money and Morality in Professional Humanitarianism - STEPHEN HOPGOOD 5. Humanitarian Organizations: Accountable-Why, to Whom, for What, and How? - JANICE GROSS STEIN 6. The Grand Strategies of Humanitarianism - MICHAEL BARNLTT AND JACK SNYDER 7. The Power of Holding Humanitarianism in Hostage and the Myth of Protective Principles - LAURA HAMMOND 8. Sacrifice, Triage, and Global Humanitarianism - PETER REDFIELD 9. The Distributive Commitments of International NGOs - JENNIFER C. RUBENSTEIN 10. Humanitarianism as a Scholarly Vocation - MICHAEL BARNETT 11. Humanitarianism and Practitioners: Social Science Matters - PETER J. HOFFMAN AND THOMAS G. WEISSContributors Index
£24.69
Stanford University Press Another Japan Is Possible
Book SynopsisExamines the genesis of internationally linked Japanese nongovernmental advocacy networks; their critiques of neoliberalism, militarism, and nationalism; their local, regional, and global connections; their relationships with the Japanese government; and their role in constructing an identity of the Japanese as global citizens.Trade Review"Chan's study is a rare and comprehensive compilation of Japanese voices articulating their demand for an alternative model of citizenship...Chan's book can be highly recommended to all interested in 'the other Japan.'" -- Internationales Asienforum"This book is rich in primary material on the human side of NGO activity in Japan, along a wide spectrum of organizations. In that alone it is a valuable text. This is a nuanced view of advocacy, strategies and institutions, sometimes against the grain of existing views, and it adds the perspectives of "new global citizens" of Japan, engaged in knowledge production. The book will be very useful indeed in social and political science courses, and in courses on globalization, social change and identity." —Merry White, Professor, Department of Anthropology, Boston University"A surprise for observers who view Japan as a developmental state, run by a powerful central bureaucracy and aligned with a conservative party whose policies often override public interest, Another Japan is Possible casts new light on a neglected but vital aspect of Japan's emerging political economy. A remarkable group of scholars, professionals and citizen activists reveal the growing numbers of committed Japanese participating energetically in local and global organizations devoted to a broad range of issues, from the environment and sustainable development to health care, migrant workers, disability, gender, and minority rights." —Daniel I. Okimoto, Professor, Department of Political Science, and Director Emeritus, Walter H. Shorenstein Asia Pacific Research Center, Stanford University"As a civil society scholar, I can say that this book is a desired piece of work...This book makes an important contribution to connecting Japanese accounts to both Japanese and global discourses on civil society." -- Akihiro Ogawa * Stockholm University *"To conclude, the use of the book is twofold. Firstly, it can serve as an eye-opener to readers who are stuck in the image of Japan as a country where discontent seldom takes the form of overt protest or citizen engagement. Secondly, it presents a lot of raw material and information which... can be useful to readers interested in Japanese civil society or the groups presented in the book. " -- Japanese Studies"The days are gone forever when the prevailing cliche in Japan suggested that there were only two types of social entities: governmental institutions and non-governmental individuals (the so-called middle mass). However, of late the former has been fragmenting themselves while the latter has been flourishing and fraternalizing themselves with transnational and international counterparts. Jennifer Chan has vividly illustrated this incredible turnaround with good contextualizing narratives and rich and informative constructions of the thinking and sentiments those non-governmental organizations generate in a vast array of areas. A must read in the study of globalization and localization." -- Inoguchi Takashi, Professor Emeritus * University of Tokyo, and Professor of Political Science, Chuo University, Tokyo *Table of Contents@fmct:Contents @toc4:Tables and Figures iii Acknowledgments iii Note on Conventions iii @toc2:Introduction: Global Governance and Japanese Nongovernmental Advocacy Networks 1 @toc1:Part I Global Governance @toc2:Introduction to Part I 000 @toc2:1. Global Governance Monitoring and Japan @tocca:Kawakami Toyoyuki, Advocacy and Monitoring Network on Sustainable Development 000 @toc2:2. Education, Empowerment, and Alternatives to Neoliberalism @tocca:Sakuma Tomoko, Japan Center for a Sustainable Environment and Society 000 @toc2:3. Building a People-Based Peace and Democracy Movement in Asia @tocca:Ogura Toshimaru, Peoples' Plan Study Group 000 @toc2:4. Tobin Tax, Kyoto Social Forum, and Pluralism @tocca:Komori Masataka, Association for the Tobin Tax for the Aid of Citizens, Kyoto 000 @toc2:5. Education for Civil Society Capacity Building @tocca:Fukawa Yoko, Pacific Asia Resource Center 000 @toc2:6. Community Development, Peace, and Global Citizenship @tocca:Takahashi Kiyotaka, Japan International Volunteer Center 000 @toc1:Part II Labor @toc2:Introduction to Part II 000 @toc2:7. Globalization and Labor Restructuring @tocca:Kumagai Ken'ichi, Japanese Trade Union Confederation 000 @toc2:8. Corporate Restructuring and Homelessness @tocca:Kasai Kazuaki, Shinjuku Homeless Support Center 000 @toc2:9. Gender, Part-Time Labor, and Indirect Discrimination @tocca:Sakai Kazuko, Equality Action 21 000 @toc2:10. Migration, Trafficking, and Free Trade Agreements @tocca:Ishihara Virgie, Filipino Migrants Center, Nagoya 000 @toc2:11. Neoliberalism and Labor Organizing @tocca:Yasuda Yukihiro, Labor Net 000 @toc2:12. Water, Global Commons, and Peace @tocca:Mizukoshi Takashi, All-Japan Water Supply Workers' Union 000 @toc1:Part III Food Sovereignty 000 @toc2:Introduction to Part III 000 @toc2:13. Agricultural Liberalization, World Trade Organization, and Peace @tocca:Ohno Kazuoki, No WTO--Voices of the Grassroots in Japan 000 @toc2:14. Multifunctionality of Agriculture over Free Trade @tocca:Yamaura Yasuaki, Food Action 21 000 @toc2:15. Citizens' Movement Against Genetically Modified Foods @tocca:Amagasa Keisuke, No! GMO Campaign 000 @toc2:16. Self-Sufficiency, Safety, and Food Liberalization @tocca:Imamura Kazuhiko, Watch Out for WTO! Japan 000 @toc1:Part IV Peace 000 @toc2:Introduction to Part IV 000 @toc2:17. "We Want Blue Sky in Peaceful Okinawa" @tocca:Hirayama Motoh, Grassroots Movement to Remove U.S. Bases from Okinawa and the World 000 @toc2:18. World Peace Now @tocca:Hanawa Machiko, Tsukushi Takehiko, and Cazman, World Peace Now 000 @toc2:19. Article 9 and the Peace Movement @tocca:Takada Ken, No to Constitutional Revision! Citizens' Network 000 @toc2:20. Fundamental Law of Education, Peace, and the Marketization of Education @tocca:Nishihara Nobuaki, Japan Teachers' Union 000 @toc2:21. Japan and International War Crimes @tocca:Higashizawa Yasushi, Japan Civil Liberties Union 000 @toc2:22. Landmine Ban and Peace Education @tocca:Kitagawa Yasuhiro, Japan Campaign to Ban Landmines 000 @toc2:23. Nuclear Disarmament, Advocacy, and Peace Education @tocca:Nakamura Keiko, Peace Depot 000 @toc2:24. Building a Citizens' Peace Movement in Japan and Asia @tocca:Otsuka Teruyo, Asia Pacific Peace Forum 000 @toc1:Part V HIV/AIDS 000 @toc2:Introduction to Part V 000 @toc2:25. HIV/AIDS from a Human Rights Perspective @tocca:Tarui Masayoshi, Japan AIDS and Society Association 000 @toc2:26. HIV/AIDS, Gender, and Backlash @tocca:Hy'd' Chika, Place Tokyo 000 @toc2:27. Migrant Workers and HIV/AIDS in Japan @tocca:Inaba Masaki, Africa Japan Forum 000 @toc1:Part VI Gender 000 @toc2:Introduction to Part VI 000 @toc2:28. International Lobbying and Japanese Women's Networks @tocca:Watanabe Miho, Japan NGO Network on CEDAW 000 @toc2:29. Gender, Human Rights, and Trafficking in Persons @tocca:Hara Yuriko, Japan Network Against Trafficking in Persons 000 @toc2:30. Gender, Reproductive Rights, and Technology @tocca:Ohashi Yukako, Soshiren (Starting from a Female Body) 000 @toc2:31. As a Lesbian Feminist in Japan @tocca:Wakabayashi Naeko, Regumi Studio Tokyo 000 @toc2:32. Sex Workers' Movement in Japan @tocca:Kaname Yukiko, Sex Workers and Sexual Health 000 @toc2:33. Women's Active Museum on War and Peace @tocca:Watanabe Mina, Women's Active Museum on War and Peace 000 @toc2:34. Art, Feminism, and Activism @tocca:Shimada Yoshiko, Feminist Art Action Brigade 000 @toc1:Part VII Minority and Human Rights 000 @toc2:Introduction to Part VII 000 @toc2:35. A Proposal for a Law on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination @tocca:Fujimoto Mie, Japan Civil Liberties Union, Subcommittee for the Rights of Foreigners 000 @toc2:36. Antidiscrimination, Grassroots Empowerment, and Horizontal Networking @tocca:Morihara Hideki, International Movement Against All Forms of Discrimination and Racism 000 @toc2:37. Multiple Identities and Buraku Liberation @tocca:Mori Maya, Buraku Liberation League 000 @toc2:38. Indigenous Peoples' Rights and Multicultural Coexistence @tocca:Uemura Hideaki, Shimin Gaik' Centre 000 @toc2:39. On the Recognition of the Indigenous Peoples' Rights of the Ainu @tocca:Sakai Mina, Association of Rera 000 @toc2:40. "I Would Like to Be Able to Speak Uchin'guchi When I Grow Up!" @tocca:Taira Satoko, Association of Indigenous Peoples in the Ry'ky's 000 @toc2:41. Art Activism and Korean Minority Rights @tocca:Hwangbo Kangja, Mirine 000 @toc2:42. Ethnic Diversity, Foreigners' Rights, and Discrimination in Family Registration @tocca:Tony L szlo, Issho Kikaku 000 @toc2:43. Disability and Gender @tocca:Hirukawa Ry'ko, Japan National Assembly of Disabled Peoples' International 000 @toc2:44. The UN Convention on Refugee and Asylum Protection in Japan @tocca:Ishikawa Eri, Japan Association for Refugees 000 @toc2:45. Torture, Penal Reform, and Prisoners' Rights @tocca:Akiyama Emi, Center for Prisoners' Rights Japan 000 @toc2:46. Death Penalty and Human Rights @tocca:Takada Akiko, Forum 90 000 @toc1:Part VIII Youth Groups 000 @toc2:Introduction to Part VIII 000 @toc2:47. Experience, Action, and the Floating Peace Village @tocca:Yoshioka Tatsuya, Peace Boat 000 @toc2:48. Ecology, Youth Action, and International Advocacy @tocca:Mitsumoto Yuko, A SEED Japan 000 @toc2:49. Organic Food, Education, and Peace @tocca:Shikita Kiyoshi, BeGood Cafe 000 @toc2:50. "Another Work Is Possible": Slow Life, Ecology, and Peace @tocca:Takahashi Kenkichi, Body and Soul 000 @toc2:Conclusion: Social Movements and Global Citizenship Education 000 @toc4:Appendixes 000 List of Organizations 000 References 000 Index 000
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Stanford University Press Costly Democracy
Book SynopsisThis book examines under what conditions peacebuilding can bring not only peace but also democracy to war-torn countries.Trade Review"Costly Democracy is a welcome addition to the literature on peace-building. It advances a new and important theory and develops a framework of analysis for understanding the peace-building process that has significant implications for both scholarship and public policy. It is methodologically rigorous—a model of structured comparative case study analysis—and is written with admirable clarity. It is an outstanding book that deserves to be read widely."—Richard Caplan, Cambridge Review of International Affairs"This excellent volume presents two well-supported arguments about the study of peace building and democratization . . . Highly recommended."—M. Tetreault, Choice"A consistent and rigorous focus across many different cases of international peacebuilding makes this a standout book."—Benjamin Reilly, Australian National University"Costly Democracy gets at the heart of today's peace and security agenda: How can societies wracked by war progress toward sustainable peace? In this compellingly written and artfully researched volume, Christoph Zürcher and his colleagues explore the partial and deeply vexatious nature of international support for democratic transitions after war. The detailed and deep case studies evidently expose the outer limits of outsiders' ability to use aid and assistance to promote democracy in societies emerging from conflict."—Timothy D. Sisk, University of Denver"This book advances a new and important claim about democratic peacebuilding—it depends on the politics within fragile states. Sophisticated analysis of nine cases shows that the interactions between internal and external actors and their impact domestic politics is the key. This is a model for collaborative research and sophisticated social science."—Deborah Avant, Editor of Who Governs the Globe?
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University of Pennsylvania Press Benevolent Empire
Book SynopsisStephen Porter''s Benevolent Empire examines political-refugee aid initiatives and related humanitarian endeavors led by American people and institutions from World War I through the Cold War, opening an important window onto the short American century. Chronicling both international relief efforts and domestic resettlement programs aimed at dispossessed people from Europe, Latin America, and East Asia, Porter asks how, why, and with what effects American actors took responsibility for millions of victims of war, persecution, and political upheaval during these decades. Diverse forces within the American state and civil society directed these endeavors through public-private governing arrangements, a dynamic yielding both benefits and liabilities. Motivated by a variety of geopolitical, ethical, and cultural reasons, these advocates for humanitarian action typically shared a desire to portray the United States, to the American people and international audiences, as an exceptiTrade Review"[T]here can be an almost indistinguishable line between humanitarian aid that is benevolent and that which is weaponized...Porter sets out this story masterfully. Alternating between bird’s-eye overviews and fascinating individual stories and details, the author shares a vivid history of the complexities of U.S. humanitarian efforts to address displaced people over the decades of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries." * American Historical Review *"Benevolent Empire is an important book that should be widely read due to its ability to translate a multidimensional, transnational phenomenon into an engaging narrative that speaks to a variety of both contemporary and historical issues...[O]ne cannot help but be struck by the importance of this book to current debates about refugees and asylum-seekers within the context of the U.S. role in the world." * Diplomatic History *"Standing at the intersection of several historiographical fields, Benevolent Empire makes important contributions to each of them. By adding to a growing literature on the histories of U.S. humanitarian assistance and . . . human rights, the book will be essential reading for historians of immigration, American political development, and U.S. international relations." * Journal of American History *"Benevolent Empire makes key contributions to a growing body of scholarship on the 'United States in the world' and across the fields of immigrant and refugee studies, humanitarianism and human rights, and US foreign policy through its illumination of a largely understudied dimension of US globalism — namely, the role that international relief and refugee initiatives have come to play in the making of a deterritorialized American empire...Porter’s insights into the developments of decades past present potential pathways for how a truly humane and humanitarian policy in relation to the world’s dispossessed might be forged." * International Migration Review *"Benevolent Empire interweaves a vast and growing literature on humanitarian relief, the international dimensions of American civil rights reform, immigration, and American political development...[A] well-crafted study...If there is any moral in Porter’s account, it would be the imperative need to more fully awaken the humanitarian sensibility among host-nation populations to admit extensive and long-lasting responsibilities for those unfortunate peoples whose homelands have been torn asunder." * H-Diplo *"Benevolent Empire is a wonderful and important book that makes original contributions on multiple fronts. Immigration and refugee historians, of course, will have this book on their shelves but so will scholars of American political development, of human rights and humanitarianism, and of twentieth-century U.S. foreign policy." * Carl Bon Tempo, State University of New York at Albany *
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MP-SYR Syracuse University P Iraqi Migrants in Syria The Crisis before the
Book SynopsisDuring the decade that preceded Syria’s 2011 uprising and descent into violence, the country was in the midst of another crisis: the mass arrival of Iraqi migrants and a flood of humanitarian aid to handle the refugee emergency. Drawing on firsthand observations and interviews, Hoffmann provides a nuanced portrait of the conditions of daily life for Iraqis living in Syria.Trade Review“Hoffmann’s theoretical deftness and her acute ethnography of the places, peoples, and organizations she encountered make major contributions to our understanding of Syria, but also of the conditions of refugees and strangers everywhere.” —Laleh Khalili, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London“A lucid, theoretically informed, and original analysis of statehood and sovereignty in Bashar al-Asad’s Syria.” —Laura Ruiz de Elvira, postdoctoral researcher, French National Center for Scientific Research.
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University of Arizona Press Corporate Nature
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The University of Alabama Press Building Back Better in India Development NGOs
Book SynopsisAddresses the ways in which natural disasters impact the strategies and priorities of neoliberalizing states in the contemporary era. Raja Swamy offers an ethnographically rich account of post-disaster reconstruction, its contested aims, and the mixed outcomes of state policy, humanitarian aid, and local resistance.Trade ReviewAfter the 2004 tsunami in South India, reconstruction efforts leveraged the humanitarian gift of inland housing to relocate the artisanal fishing population and privatize the coastal commons. But the task of securing a spatial fix for capital accumulation failed. With keen ethnographic insight, Swamy shows how fishers sustained their claim to coastal life and livelihood while transforming humanitarian gifts into assets. Challenging assumptions about its depoliticizing and disciplining effects, he argues for humanitarianism as a contested process that can reset the contours of economy and politics." - Ajantha Subramanian, author of The Caste of Merit: Engineering Education in India"This rich, multi-level ethnography brings together a rich ethnography of a fishing community in India, with the largely separate literatures of humanitarianism, disaster studies and development studies, and offers new ways to help poor communities to remain political agents in the face of the forces of neo-liberalism." - Arjun Appadurai, author of India's World: The Politics of Creativity in a Globalized SocietyTable of Contents List of Figures Preface Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: “Building Back Better” Part I. Nagapattinam Chapter 1. The Tsunami of 2004 and Its Aftermath Chapter 2. Artisanal Fishers, the State, and an NGO Part II. The Politics of Humanitarianism Chapter 3. NGO Antipolitics and Politics Chapter 4. The Humanitarian Gift Economy Part III. Economic Development and Humanitarian Aid Chapter 5. Unbridging the Future: Connectivity and Distance Chapter 6. Memory, Space, and Power Conclusion Glossary Notes Bibliography Index
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MD - Duke University Press Indigenous Development in the Andes
Book SynopsisFocusing on the encounters of indigenous peoples with international development as they negotiate issues related to land, water, professionalization, and gender, this title offers an analysis of the diverse consequences of neoliberal development, and underscores questions about globalization, governance, cultural identities, and social movements.Trade Review“This is an important book that all social scientists working in the Andes and Amazonia will want to own, read, and re-read for the complex and nuanced arguments that the authors make. Robert Andolina, Nina Laurie and Sarah A. Radcliffe do a wonderful job of tacking between the everyday of indigenous political practice and the arguments about culture, identity, and development that go on inside development agencies. They explore both the spaces opened, and those closed down, by ethnically-aware approaches to development, and in doing so give a reading of neoliberalism in practice that is among the most careful and ethnographically insightful yet published. This is a book that is at once conceptually brave and empirically grounded and has manifold implications for how to think about development—not just in the Andes, but way beyond.”—Anthony Bebbington, University of Manchester“Indigenous Development in the Andes is a hopeful and timely book. It provides important insights about the power and potential of transnationalism for indigenous development; of the tremendous agency of indigenous peoples; and the openings for governments and the international development community to learn new ways of effectively engaging indigenous populations. Readers will find these insights applicable for thinking through the challenges of how to continue to improve indigenous development outcomes in Latin America, as well in other developing nations, continents and regions.” -- Michelle Carnegie * Progress in Development Studies *“Indigenous Development in the Andes is of undeniable importance to scholars who focus on the Andean region or Indigenous Studies in general. . . . [An] engaging, well-designed, and groundbreaking study that will influence how academics and policy makers think about these issues for years to come.” -- Paul Worley * The Latin Americanist *“Most predominant in the book as a whole is its emphasis on scale and place. Thus, geographers will be its most natural audience, though other disciplines also may benefit from thinking through transnational relationships through a geographer’s lens. . . . The authors’ method of multisited ethnography allows them to map a huge array of discursive debates that cross local and national boundaries. . . . [T]his book certainly advances our understanding of the complexities behind the transnational production of ‘ethno-development’ policies today.” -- Christina Ewig * Comparative Political Studies *“Moving seamlessly back and forth between examples from Bolivia and Ecuador, the authors ask how ethnic practices change development policies, and how multiethnic transnationalism emerges and sustains itself. . . . Recommended.” -- M. Becker * Choice *"A kaleidoscope of rural development projects in highland regions in Ecuador and Bolivia that became vital sites of local/global interactionbetween indigenous groups and the sponsors and funders of those projects." -- Brooke Larson * Latin American Research Review *Table of ContentsList of Maps and Tables vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Indigenous Development in the Andes 1 1. Development, Transnational Networks, and Indigenous Politics 23 2. Development-with-Identity: Social Capital and Andean Culture 53 3. Development in Place: Ethnic Culture in the Transnational Local 80 4. Neoliberalisms, Transnational Water Politics, and Indigenous People 125 5. Transnational Professionalization of Indigenous Actors and Knowledge 157 6. Gender, Transnationalism, and Cultures of Development 195 Conclusion: Transnationalism, Development, and Culture in Theory and Practice 223 Appendix 1: Methodology and Research Design 247 Appendix 2: Development-Agency Initiatives for Andean IndigenousPeoples, 1990–2002 249 Appendix 3: Professional Biographies of Teachers in Interculturalism 253 Acronyms and Abbreviations 257 Notes 263 Bibliography 297 Index 335
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Duke University Press Theorizing NGOs
Book SynopsisExamines how the rise of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) has transformed the conditions of women's lives and of feminist organizing. This book brings together feminist research on NGOs from various perspectives and disciplines.Trade Review“Theorizing NGOs offers timely and insightful perspectives on the intersection between NGOs, women’s experiences of NGOs and feminism across the world. Bringing together scholarly writings on women’s experiences with NGOs from different parts of the globe is definitely one of the highlights of the volume. . . . This volume is a must read for anyone interested in gender and development, and in the anthropology of the state.” -- Lipika Kamra * Social Anthropology *"In representing more than a decade of energetic discussion and debate, this collection provides fantastic evidence of the dynamism and creativity of feminist activism in all of its forms.... It is a welcome and valuable contribution." -- Miranda Joseph * Women's Review of Books *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. The NGO Form: Feminist Struggles, States, and Neoliberalism / Victoria Bernal and Inderpal Grewal 1 Part I. NGOs Beyond Success or Failure 19 1. The Movementization of NGOs? Women's Organizing in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina / Elissa Helms 21 2. Failed Development and Rural Revolution in Nepal: Rethinking Subaltern Consciousness and Women's Empowerment / Lauren Leve 50 3. The State and Women's Empowerment in India Paradoxes and Politics / Aradhana Sharma 93 Part II. Postcolonial Neoliberalisms and the NGO Form 115 4. Global Civil Society and the Local Costs of Belonging: Defining Violence against Women in Russia / Julie Hemment 119 5. Resolving a Gendered Paradox: Women's Participation and the NGO Boom in North India / Kathleen O'Reilly 143 6. Power and Difference in Thai Women's NGO Activism / LeeRay M. Costa 166 7. Demystifying Microcredit: The Grameen Bank, NGOs, and Neoliberalism in Bangladesh / Lamia Karim 193 Part III. Feminist Social Movements and NGOs 219 8. Feminist Bastards: Toward a Posthumanist Critique of NGOization / Saida Hodzic 221 9. Lived Feminism(s) in Postcommunist Romania / Laura Grünberg 248 10. Women's Advocacy Networks: The European Union, Women's NGOs, and the Velvet Triangle / Sabine Lange 266 11. Beyond NGOization? Relrections from Latin America / Sonia E. Alvarez 285 Conclusion. Feminisms and the NGO Form / Victoria Bernal and Inderpal Grewal 301 Bibliography 311 Contributors 353 Index 357
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Duke University Press How Development Projects Persist
Book SynopsisErin Beck examines microfinance NGOs working with poor, rural women in Guatemala to show how these women creatively and strategically use the NGOs to their own benefit in ways that do not necessarily match the goals of the NGOs, demonstrating that development projects are often transformed and persist in unexpected ways.Trade Review"Erin Beck has made a lasting contribution to the field of development studies in theorising development as a social interaction while also raising important issues for policy and practice. How Development Projects Persist is a call to contemplate, assess and study development not simply according to the goals of policymakers and organisations, but according to the larger vision and life goals of the people that interventions hope to serve." -- Bronwen Gillespie * Anthropology in Action *"The strength of Why Development Projects Persist is the quality of Beck’s data. . . . Beck writes her ethnographic data with completeness and clarity, which allows the reader to understand the intentions of these organizations, the worldviews of participants, and the ways these clashed as the NGOs’ visions of development were put into practice." -- Laura J. Heideman * American Journal of Sociology *"The text’s strength lies in its conceptual breadth and accessibility. . . . An easy, yet enlightening read. . . . Beck effectively shows rather than just tells what development encounters look like and how they are interpreted by the actors involved." -- Monica DeHart * Anthropological Quarterly *“This book. . . is useful to those interested in international studies, development studies, as well as development practitioners. . . . Further, Beck’s detailed analysis is well-written and jargon-free, and presents us with a balanced and longitudinal view of NGO development projects in Guatemala.” -- Michelle Moran-Taylor * Journal of Latin American Geography *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii 1. Social Engineering from Above and Below 1 2. Repackaging Development in Guatemala 29 3. Namaste's Bootstrap Model 64 4. Women and Workers Responding to Bootstrap Development 90 5. The Fraternity's Holistic Model 134 6. The Uneven Practices and Experiences of Holistic Development 162 7. The Implications of Socially Constructed Development 208 Appendix. Research Methods and Ethical Dilemmas 225 Notes 233 References 239 Index 259
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Duke University Press How Development Projects Persist
Book SynopsisErin Beck examines microfinance NGOs working with poor, rural women in Guatemala to show how these women creatively and strategically use the NGOs to their own benefit in ways that do not necessarily match the goals of the NGOs, demonstrating that development projects are often transformed and persist in unexpected ways.Trade Review"Erin Beck has made a lasting contribution to the field of development studies in theorising development as a social interaction while also raising important issues for policy and practice. How Development Projects Persist is a call to contemplate, assess and study development not simply according to the goals of policymakers and organisations, but according to the larger vision and life goals of the people that interventions hope to serve." -- Bronwen Gillespie * Anthropology in Action *"The strength of Why Development Projects Persist is the quality of Beck’s data. . . . Beck writes her ethnographic data with completeness and clarity, which allows the reader to understand the intentions of these organizations, the worldviews of participants, and the ways these clashed as the NGOs’ visions of development were put into practice." -- Laura J. Heideman * American Journal of Sociology *"The text’s strength lies in its conceptual breadth and accessibility. . . . An easy, yet enlightening read. . . . Beck effectively shows rather than just tells what development encounters look like and how they are interpreted by the actors involved." -- Monica DeHart * Anthropological Quarterly *“This book. . . is useful to those interested in international studies, development studies, as well as development practitioners. . . . Further, Beck’s detailed analysis is well-written and jargon-free, and presents us with a balanced and longitudinal view of NGO development projects in Guatemala.” -- Michelle Moran-Taylor * Journal of Latin American Geography *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii 1. Social Engineering from Above and Below 1 2. Repackaging Development in Guatemala 29 3. Namaste's Bootstrap Model 64 4. Women and Workers Responding to Bootstrap Development 90 5. The Fraternity's Holistic Model 134 6. The Uneven Practices and Experiences of Holistic Development 162 7. The Implications of Socially Constructed Development 208 Appendix. Research Methods and Ethical Dilemmas 225 Notes 233 References 239 Index 259
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Duke University Press Domesticating Democracy The Politics of Conflict
Book SynopsisIn Domesticating Democracy Susan Helen Ellison offers an ethnography of Alternate Dispute Resolution (ADR) organizations in El Alto, Bolivia, showing that by helping residents cope with their interpersonal disputes and economic troubles how they change the ways Bolivians interact with the state and global capitalism, making them into self-reliant citizens.Trade Review"An in-depth study of the complexities of a foreign-founded programme of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) and its eff ects, appropriations and interpretations amongst El Alto residents in Bolivia . . . particularly relevant for practitioners and civil servants." -- Nico Tassi * Anthropology in Action *"Ellison uses insightful accounts to weave people’s daily experiences of conflicts and vulnerability into the work of the ADR centres and the judicial structure of the country. . . . The book is very valuable in helping us understand Bolivia’s complex process of change, the structural impediments to peaceful progress and the vulnerabilities of large proportions of the populations – conditions that are not automatically helped by foreign funded programmes." -- Charlotta Widmark * Journal of Latin American Studies *“[Domesticating Democracy] elegantly elucidates the ways that Bolivian political conflicts move across and thereby newly draw together domestic, national, and transnational practices and institutions.” -- Mareike Winchell * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *“[Domesticating Democracy] is an important book for scholars of the Andes and political and legal studies scholars, as well as anyone trying to get their head around what neoliberalism is and what (hopefully, someday) comes next. . . . The clear writing and strong narrative thread make it a good option for advanced undergraduates and graduate students in all disciplines.” -- Susan Ellison * Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Uprising 31 1. Fix the State or Fix the People 37 2. Cultures of Peace, Cultures of Conflict 64 3. A Market for Mediators 95 A Brief Recess: Conciliating Conflict in Alto Lima 121 4. Between Compadres There Is No Interest 134 5. The Conflictual Social Life of an Industrial Sewing Machine 163 6. You Have to Comply with Paper 194 Conclusion 221 Notes 235 References 255 Index 275
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Duke University Press Domesticating Democracy
Book SynopsisIn Domesticating Democracy Susan Helen Ellison offers an ethnography of Alternate Dispute Resolution (ADR) organizations in El Alto, Bolivia, showing that by helping residents cope with their interpersonal disputes and economic troubles how they change the ways Bolivians interact with the state and global capitalism, making them into self-reliant citizens.Trade Review"An in-depth study of the complexities of a foreign-founded programme of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) and its eff ects, appropriations and interpretations amongst El Alto residents in Bolivia . . . particularly relevant for practitioners and civil servants." -- Nico Tassi * Anthropology in Action *"Ellison uses insightful accounts to weave people’s daily experiences of conflicts and vulnerability into the work of the ADR centres and the judicial structure of the country. . . . The book is very valuable in helping us understand Bolivia’s complex process of change, the structural impediments to peaceful progress and the vulnerabilities of large proportions of the populations – conditions that are not automatically helped by foreign funded programmes." -- Charlotta Widmark * Journal of Latin American Studies *“[Domesticating Democracy] elegantly elucidates the ways that Bolivian political conflicts move across and thereby newly draw together domestic, national, and transnational practices and institutions.” -- Mareike Winchell * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *“[Domesticating Democracy] is an important book for scholars of the Andes and political and legal studies scholars, as well as anyone trying to get their head around what neoliberalism is and what (hopefully, someday) comes next. . . . The clear writing and strong narrative thread make it a good option for advanced undergraduates and graduate students in all disciplines.” -- Susan Ellison * Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Uprising 31 1. Fix the State or Fix the People 37 2. Cultures of Peace, Cultures of Conflict 64 3. A Market for Mediators 95 A Brief Recess: Conciliating Conflict in Alto Lima 121 4. Between Compadres There Is No Interest 134 5. The Conflictual Social Life of an Industrial Sewing Machine 163 6. You Have to Comply with Paper 194 Conclusion 221 Notes 235 References 255 Index 275
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