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Fordham University Press American Parishes Remaking Local Catholicism
Book SynopsisBetween individual Catholics and a global institution, thousands of local parishes remake Catholicism each day. With fresh data and sociological methods, this book shows how parishes are shaped by community, geography, and authority; how parishes respond to diversity and change; and how parishes worship and educate for the future of Catholicism.Table of ContentsIntroduction: What Is a Parish? Why Look at Catholic Parishes? Gary J. Adler Jr., Tricia C. Bruce, and Brian Starks | 1 Part I : Seeing Parishes Through a Sociological Lens 1. A Brief History of the Sociology of Parishes in the United States Tricia C. Bruce | 25 2. Studying Parishes: Lessons and New Directions from the Study of Congregations Nancy T. Ammerman | 47 Part II: Parish Trends 3. The Shifting Landscape of US Catholic Parishes, 1998–2012 Gary J. Adler Jr. | 69 4. Stable Transformation: Catholic Parishioners in the United States Mark M. Gray | 95 Part III: Race, Class, and Diversity in Parish Life 5. Power in the Parish Brett C. Hoover | 111 6. Liturgy as Identity Work in Predominantly African American Parishes Tia Noelle Pratt | 132 7. A House Divided Mary Jo Bane | 153 Part IV: Young Catholics In (and Out) of Parishes 8. Parishes as Homes and Hubs Kathleen Garces-Foley | 173 9. Preparing to Say “I Do” Courtney Ann Irby | 196 Part V : The Practice and Future of a Sociology of Catholic Parishes 10. A Sociologist Looks at His Own Parish: A Conversation with John A. Coleman, SJ John A. Coleman, SJ, with editors Gary J. Adler Jr., Tricia C. Bruce, and Brian Starks | 217 Conclusion: Parishes as the Embedded Middle of American Catholicism Gary J. Adler Jr., Tricia C. Bruce, and Brian Starks | 231 Acknowledgments | 247 List of Contributors | 249 Index | 253
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University of Hawai'i Press Becoming One
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Johns Hopkins University Press Under the Big Tree
Book SynopsisPowerful stories of the debilitating effects of neglected tropical diseases throughout the world, highlighting the successes and challenges of those fighting to eliminate them. Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) affect over one billion of the world's poorest people. More than 170,000 people die from NTDs each year, and many more suffer from blindness, disability, disfigurement, cognitive impairment, and stunted growth. Yet NTDs are treatable and preventable, and the annual cost of treatment is incredibly low. In Under the Big Tree, public health leader Ellen Agler and award-winning writer Mojie Crigler tell the moving stories of those struggling with these diseases and the life-saving work that can beand has beendone to combat NTDs. They introduce readers to people from all walks of lifefrom car washers in Lake Victoria and surgeons on motorbikes to under-resourced local nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and Big Pharma scientistsas they chronicle what has been called the largestTable of ContentsForeword, by Bill Gates Preface, by William C. Campbell List of Abbreviations Chapter 1. Crisis and Collaboration Chapter 2. Modern Approaches to Ancient Diseases Chapter 3. Big Consequences from Small Things Chapter 4. Empowerment and Humility Chapter 5. Worms, Maps, and Money Chapter 6. A New Normal Chapter 7. Stone Soup Chapter 8. Unfrozen Moment Chapter 9. Strengthening Health Systems Chapter 10. The Last Twenty Centimeters Chapter 11. Homegrown Philanthropy Acknowledgments Note on Sources Bibliography Index
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Temple University Press,U.S. The International Monetary Fund and Latin America
Book SynopsisReveals both routine and behind-the-scenes practices that have characterized International Monetary Fund-Latin American relations in general and IMF-Argentina relations in particular, from 1944 to the presentTrade Review"Kedar's book derives from her success in clarifying the objectives of the IMF, while describing the conditions under which they were adopted or rejected... It is well written, exhaustive, and contains many sound judgments. Kedar has interdisciplinary abilities as a historian and an economist." - Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Autumn 2013 "Kedar's study of Argentine interactions with the IMF is a welcome and impressive addition... With its clear and straightforward writing, the book is a challenging prompt for comparable studies on Brazil and Mexico, which are long overdue. Its academic significance is enhanced by the fact that it is in line with current debates about the beliefs, actual behavior, and influence of Washington politics on the procedures and policies of multilateral financial institutions, which important scholars...have pushed forward in the last decade." - Hispanic American Historical Review "Kedar makes meticulous use of IMF documents dating back to the 1940s, and triangulates with Argentine government documents and materials from the U.S. and British National Archives...[T]wo things about this book set it apart from the familiar chronicle. The first is its firm grounding in an impressive array of original historical documents... Second, Kedar is part of a new movement of scholars seeking to update traditional theoretical understandings of what international financial institutions do and why they do it... Kedar draws on newly-available information to present a different view of the IMF as a bureaucracy with its own bureaucratic interests, which do not always coincide with the interests of the U.S. government." - Contemporary Sociology, May 2014Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 Multilateralism from the Margins: Latin America and the Founding of the IMF, 1942-1945 2 It Takes Three to Tango: Argentina, the Bretton Woods Institutions, and the United States, 1946-1956 3 Dependency in the Making: The First Loan Agreement and the Consolidation of the Formal Relationship with the IMF, 1957-1961 4 Fluctuations in the Routine of Dependency: Argentine-IMF Relations in a Decade of Political Instability, 1962-1972 5 All Regimes Are Legitimate: The IMF's Relations with Democracies and Dictatorships, 1973-1982 6 Routine of Dependency or Routine of Detachment? Looking for a New Model of Relations with the IMF Conclusions Notes References Index
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Bristol University Press Global Social Policy in the Making
Book SynopsisThis book by the world's leading authority on global social policy examines why and how the Social Protection Floor became ILO, UN and G20 policy and how the World Bank and IMF took steps to lay its foundation.Trade Review"A well-written report of a piece of very good news." Citizen's Income.“Professor Deacon skilfully identifies the crucial moments, key actors and competing – and shared - ideas in the global policy-struggles towards realising the right to decent livelihoods and socioeconomic protection for all.” Dr. Timo Voipio, Senior Adviser for Global Social Policy, Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland (MFAF)"An important historical and analytical contribution to understanding the evolution of one of hte UN's key social development initiatives, the Social Protection Floor (SPF)...an important insight into the fortunes of Basic Income )BI) within the UN system." Basic Income Studies"A well-written report of a piece of very good news: that in 2012 the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the G20 agreed a proposal for global social protection floors (adapted to the circumstances of each country)." Basic Income News“A compelling combination of critical analysis, in-depth observation and a passionate plea for a Social Protection Floor as a key component of a move towards a more socially just world.” Paul Stubbs, Senior Research Fellow, The Institute of Economics, Zagreb“A must read for anyone interested in global governance, this book offers a richly detailed account of how the important global social protection floor initiative took shape.” Rianne Mahon, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada“'Global social policy in the making' exhibits the characteristics of an excellent social policy text. Its conceptually driven, theoretically informed original empirical research produced in the service of wider social transformations makes it essential reading for students, researchers and policymakers following social policy developments in cross-border spheres of governance.” Professor Nicola Yeates, Open UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction; The Global Economic and Social Context; The Development of the Social Protection Floor Recommendation; The SPF, Social Dialogue and Tripartite Global Governance in Practice; The SPF and Global Social Policy Synergy; Implications for Understanding Global Social Policy Change; Reflections and Prospects.
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Bristol University Press Global Social Policy in the Making
Book SynopsisThis book by the world's leading authority on global social policy examines why and how the Social Protection Floor became ILO, UN and G20 policy and how the World Bank and IMF took steps to lay its foundation.Trade Review"A well-written report of a piece of very good news." Citizen's Income.“Professor Deacon skilfully identifies the crucial moments, key actors and competing – and shared - ideas in the global policy-struggles towards realising the right to decent livelihoods and socioeconomic protection for all.” Dr. Timo Voipio, Senior Adviser for Global Social Policy, Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland (MFAF)"An important historical and analytical contribution to understanding the evolution of one of hte UN's key social development initiatives, the Social Protection Floor (SPF)...an important insight into the fortunes of Basic Income )BI) within the UN system." Basic Income Studies"A well-written report of a piece of very good news: that in 2012 the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the G20 agreed a proposal for global social protection floors (adapted to the circumstances of each country)." Basic Income News“A compelling combination of critical analysis, in-depth observation and a passionate plea for a Social Protection Floor as a key component of a move towards a more socially just world.” Paul Stubbs, Senior Research Fellow, The Institute of Economics, Zagreb“A must read for anyone interested in global governance, this book offers a richly detailed account of how the important global social protection floor initiative took shape.” Rianne Mahon, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada“'Global social policy in the making' exhibits the characteristics of an excellent social policy text. Its conceptually driven, theoretically informed original empirical research produced in the service of wider social transformations makes it essential reading for students, researchers and policymakers following social policy developments in cross-border spheres of governance.” Professor Nicola Yeates, Open UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction; The Global Economic and Social Context; The Development of the Social Protection Floor Recommendation; The SPF, Social Dialogue and Tripartite Global Governance in Practice; The SPF and Global Social Policy Synergy; Implications for Understanding Global Social Policy Change; Reflections and Prospects.
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University of Nebraska Press Back to America
Book SynopsisBack to America is one of the few ethnographies of local activist groups within the Tea Party. Westermeyer explains the significance of grassroots groups in individual as well as collective political identity formation and how both contribute to the success of the wider movement. Trade Review“The definitive ethnographic account of Tea Party activism, illuminating the links between the lived experiences of local Tea Party groups, conservative elites, and right-wing media. A must-read for anyone trying to understand right-wing populism today!”—Jeffrey S. Juris, associate professor of anthropology at Northeastern University “Filled with fascinating examples of Tea Party members explaining the personal meanings of national conservative discourses. . . . There are important implications of this study for social movements across the political spectrum.”—Claudia Strauss, professor of anthropology at Pitzer College “An extraordinary, profound, enduringly important, and lucidly written anthropology that shows how people in the American South fashion identities as Tea Party activists out of an expedient and unmatched relationship to national conservative media.”—Peter Hervik, associate professor of anthropology at Aalborg University “Do you want to understand how the Tea Party movement works? Read Back to America. . . . Anthropologist William Westermeyer, drawing on his field-based research in the American South, shows us the interrelated grassroots, media, and elite nature of the Tea Party. Westermeyer analyzes how Tea Party members utilize various cultural resources to communicate their identity and their claims, and how their messages are amplified on the state and national level. Back to America will show you how the Tea Party works as a social movement.”—Charles Price, associate professor of anthropology at the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: The Tea Party Movement as Cultural Politics 1. Patriots: Fashioning a Figured World of Tea Party Politics 2. Troubles: Making Personal Meaning in the Tea Party Movement 3. Plantation Politics: Race in the Figured World of the Tea Party 4. Fellowship: Local Tea Party Groups as Communities of Political Practice 5. Trickle-Up Politics: Local Tea Party Groups as Movement Actors in Local Politics Conclusion: Political Anthropology of U.S. Right-Wing Politics Notes References Index
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University of Nebraska Press Back to America
Book Synopsis Back to America is an ethnography of local activist groups within the Tea Party, one of the most important recent political movements to emerge in the United States and one that continues to influence American politics. Though often viewed as the brainchild of conservative billionaires and Fox News, the success of the Tea Party movement was as much, if not more, the result of everyday activists at the grassroots level. William H. Westermeyer traces how local Tea Party groups (LTPGs) create submerged spaces where participants fashion action-oriented collective and personal political identities forged in the context of cultural or figured worlds. These figured worlds allow people to establish meaningful links between their own lives and concerns, on the one hand, and the movement’s goals and narratives, on the other. Collectively, the production and circulation of the figured worlds within LTPGs provide the basis for subjectivities that often nurture political activism.Trade Review“The definitive ethnographic account of Tea Party activism, illuminating the links between the lived experiences of local Tea Party groups, conservative elites, and right-wing media. A must-read for anyone trying to understand right-wing populism today!”—Jeffrey S. Juris, associate professor of anthropology at Northeastern University “Filled with fascinating examples of Tea Party members explaining the personal meanings of national conservative discourses. . . . There are important implications of this study for social movements across the political spectrum.”—Claudia Strauss, professor of anthropology at Pitzer College “An extraordinary, profound, enduringly important, and lucidly written anthropology that shows how people in the American South fashion identities as Tea Party activists out of an expedient and unmatched relationship to national conservative media.”—Peter Hervik, associate professor of anthropology at Aalborg University “Do you want to understand how the Tea Party movement works? Read Back to America. . . . Anthropologist William Westermeyer, drawing on his field-based research in the American South, shows us the interrelated grassroots, media, and elite nature of the Tea Party. Westermeyer analyzes how Tea Party members utilize various cultural resources to communicate their identity and their claims, and how their messages are amplified on the state and national level. Back to America will show you how the Tea Party works as a social movement.”—Charles Price, associate professor of anthropology at the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: The Tea Party Movement as Cultural Politics 1. Patriots: Fashioning a Figured World of Tea Party Politics 2. Troubles: Making Personal Meaning in the Tea Party Movement 3. Plantation Politics: Race in the Figured World of the Tea Party 4. Fellowship: Local Tea Party Groups as Communities of Political Practice 5. Trickle-Up Politics: Local Tea Party Groups as Movement Actors in Local Politics Conclusion: Political Anthropology of U.S. Right-Wing Politics Notes References Index
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Cornell University Press Violating Peace
Book SynopsisJasmine-Kim Westendorf''s discomforting book investigates sexual misconduct by military peacekeepers and abuses perpetrated by civilian peacekeepers and non-UN civilian interveners. Based on extensive field research in Bosnia, Timor-Leste, and with the UN and humanitarian communities, Violating Peace uncovers a brutal truth about peacebuilding as Westendorf investigates how such behaviors affect the capacity of the international community to achieve its goals related to stability and peacebuilding, and its legitimacy in the eyes of local and global populations.As Violating Peace shows, when interveners perpetrate sexual exploitation and abuse, they undermine the operational capacity of the international community to effectively build peace after civil wars and to alleviate human suffering in crises. Furthermore, sexual misconduct by interveners poses a significant risk to the perceived legitimacy of the multilateral peacekeeping project, and the UN more generallTrade ReviewA very significant contribution that provides an often-neglected perspective on sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA) by UN peacekeepers. Often-times, as Westendorf points out, SEA is treated as an issue of isolated individual misconduct, which has long been addressed by the UN through a conduct and discipline approach. The UN's zero-tolerance policy has not been particularly successful despite a number of new rules, new offices and new obligations. This book argues that SEA needs to be seen and tackled in a fundamentally different way if the UN is serious about SEA prevention and accountability. This book is highly recommended for not only scholars researching on gender, accountability, or the UN, but also for policy makers and practitioners, who would benefit from Westendorf's analysis of the reasons for SEA and its negative effects. * International Peacekeeping *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. The History and Nature of Sexual Misconduct in Peace Operations 2. Sexual Exploitation and Abuse in Bosnia and Timor-Leste 3. Making Matters Worse: The Long-Term Impacts of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse 4. Legitimacy in Crisis: The Impacts of Sexual Misconduct on Capacity and Credibility Conclusion: One Problem among Many? An Integrated Response to Sexual Exploitation and Abuse
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Stanford University Press Heritage and the Cultural Struggle for Palestine
Book SynopsisIn recent decades, Palestinian heritage organizations have launched numerous urban regeneration and museum projects across the West Bank in response to the enduring Israeli occupation. These efforts to reclaim and assert Palestinian heritage differ significantly from the typical global cultural project: here it is people's cultural memory and living environment, rather than ancient history and archaeology, that take center stage. It is local civil society and NGOs, not state actors, who are "doing" heritage. In this context, Palestinian heritage has become not just a practice of resistance, but a resourceful mode of governing the Palestinian landscape. With this book, Chiara De Cesari examines these Palestinian heritage projects—notably the Hebron Rehabilitation Committee, Riwaq, and the Palestinian Museum—and the transnational actors, practices, and material sites they mobilize to create new institutions in the absence of a sovereign state. Through their rehabilitation of Palestinian heritage, these organizations have halted the expansion of Israeli settlements. They have also given Palestinians opportunities to rethink and transform state functions. Heritage and the Cultural Struggle for Palestine reveals how the West Bank is home to creative experimentation, insurgent agencies, and resourceful attempts to reverse colonial violence—and a model of how things could be.Trade Review"Chiara De Cesari provides a creative and thoroughly researched account of the way space and the material reality of buildings have become an important, if also contradictory, site for Palestinian claims. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in cultural and architectural heritage, urban transformation, museums, or landscape—and how these are used to counter dispossession." -- Helga Tawil-Souri * New York University *"Chiara De Cesari boldly and creatively shows that politics does not always happen where we expect it to be. In this book, heritage emerges as a site of political mobilization, one in which Palestinian women do more than play a central part: They shape the idioms and create the very materiality in which the temporalities of struggle are woven through people's lives. Through the stories of activists, architects, and residents of Palestine, De Cesari makes a strong case for how Palestinian heritage can make claims and demands on the Israeli state." -- Ann Laura Stoler * The New School for Social Research *"This pathbreaking book links cultural heritage and the postcolonial condition in new and provocative ways. Chiara De Cesari's nuanced ethnography of Palestine reconfigures our understanding of the relationship between sovereignty and culture." -- John F. Collins * author of Revolt of the Saints: Memory and Redemption in the Twilight of Brazilian Racial Democracy *"De Cesari's rigorous analysis takes the reader through a web of complexities which show the different dynamics of heritage. A meticulous treatise indeed—the book makes for valuable reading, in particular when it comes to understanding the many layers of resistance against cultural dispossession and Israel's colonial violence." -- Ramona Wadi * The New Arab *"Chiara De Cesari's book on Palestine appears as a groundbreaking work that offers a different option for understanding how heritage is deployed in a proxy state, a political entity under siege, whose international sovereignty is still being renegotiated." -- Cheikh Lo * Journal of Folklore Research *"De Cesari argues convincingly that NGOs and museums are initiating processes of institutionalization and governance in the absence of a stable [Palestinian] state....This book provides an important opening for a critical discussion regarding the ways in which the word "Palestine" has not lost meaning." -- Rasmieyh R. Abdelnabi * Journal of Palestine Studies *"Chiara de Cesari's study is noteworthy for its acute analysis of the relations between cultural heritage and the nation-state, and for the thoroughness with which she examines this relationship in the case of Palestine." -- Rosemary Sayigh * Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies *"Heritage and the Cultural Struggle for Palestine is an illuminating study, useful for both a better understanding of life and struggles in Palestine, and for a broader discussion of the politics of heritage." -- Adi Kuntsman * International Journal of Middle East Studies *Table of ContentsContents and AbstractsIntroduction: The Stakes of Heritage and the Politics of Culture chapter abstractThe introduction opens with the story of the Palestinian heritage organization rehabilitating the occupied and colonized Old City of Hebron. This story encapsulates many facets of the book, particularly the relationship between heritage making and Palestinians laying claims to sovereignty (that is, resisting colonization) and instantiating provisional, improvised, resourceful forms of government. It lays out the key argument of the book that Palestinian heritage has transformed from a practice of resistance into a mode of "governing" the Palestinian landscape and society that is deeply connected to transnational regimes of development and a precarious if resourceful process of state building in the absence of a sovereign state. Finally, the introduction outlines the book's key theoretical concerns: how heritage functions in mutating colonial formations and as a form of anticolonial governmentality beyond the nation-state as well as the work of heritage as expanding transnational framework of practices and meanings. 1A Political History of Palestinian Heritage chapter abstractChapter 1 examines the history of heritage preservation in Palestine in the 20th century. It begins with the work of Palestinian orientalists and ethnographers under the British Mandate in the 1920s and 1930s, to analyze how they rework colonial science in the spirit of a nascent Palestinian cultural nationalism. It then focuses on the Folklore Movement of the 1970s and 1980s and particularly its connection to the national liberation movement and the women's movement as well as its practice of anticolonial resistance and activist preservation in the occupied territories. 2Government Through Heritage in Old Hebron chapter abstractChapter 2 discusses the project of historic conservation and urban revitalization in the Old City of Hebron, which remained under Israeli control after the Oslo Accords because of the presence of several Jewish settlements. The chapter explores informal governmentalities through heritage. Countering the settlers' takeover of the Old City, the Hebron Rehabilitation Committee has restored and repopulated a large part of the city's dilapidated central quarters. But in order to sustain livelihoods in difficult conditions, it has begun to work on socioeconomic development through a broad set of interventions, adopting the language and practices of international development. Over the years, with the Palestinian Authority not being able to work in the occupied Old City, the Hebron Rehabilitation Committee has come to function as a hybrid institution of local government. 3Heritage, NGOs, and State Making chapter abstractChapter 3 examines the state-building role of heritage NGOs and the complex relationship between these organizations and the heritage body of the Palestinian Authority (PA). It argues that the Palestinian heritage movement or "heritage by NGOs" helps create and sustain not only icons and rituals of cultural nationalism but also a national infrastructure of heritage preservation and a set of national institutions alternative to those of the PA, like inventories, heritage units, master plans, and laws. In addition to preserving Palestinian identity and reclaiming Palestinian lands, West Bank organizations wish to ameliorate the living conditions of historic districts' residents and villagers and so intervene in the spaces and habits of their everyday life. In so doing—and in the context of the PA's structural weakness—they experiment with a range of modes of planning and governance, and enact a form of resourceful statecraft from the margins of the state. 4Palestinian National Museums Post-Oslo chapter abstractPlacing heritage initiatives in the context of a broader cultural revival in the West Bank, Chapter 4 discusses the peculiar history of post-Oslo museums; if the Palestinian Authority has failed to create a major national museum—as a key institution of national representation—also due to a fundamental lack of objects and museum collections, Palestinian artists and cultural producers have instead experimented with different museum formats, creating virtual museums and nomadic museums in exile, thus producing creative national institutions in transnational spaces. These alternative museums walk a tightrope between establishing authority (as institutionality, as rules and regulations, as an authoritative museum voice) and challenging such authority to promote radical, democratic practices. Conclusion: Cultural Governmentality and Activist Statehood chapter abstractThe conclusion opens with an examination of the Islamic Movement and Palestinian activist preservation in Israel targeting the remains of the Palestinian villages depopulated in 1948 when the Israeli state was established. It compares this heritage work with the work of Palestinian NGOs in the West Bank, which have moved toward development and institution building, or a kind of activist statehood. The conclusion then makes an argument for the relevance of new forms of cultural governmentality and heritage-led development well beyond Palestine.
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University of Pennsylvania Press Benevolent Empire: U.S. Power, Humanitarianism,
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 exceptional, benevolent world power whose objects of concern might potentially include any vulnerable people across the globe. And though reality almost always fell short of that idealized vision, Porter argues that this omnivorous philanthropic energy helped propel and steer the ascendance of the United States to its position of elite global power. The messaging and administration of refugee aid initiatives informed key dimensions of American and international history during this period, including U.S. foreign relations, international humanitarianism and human rights, global migration and citizenship, and American political development and social relations at home. Benevolent Empire is thus simultaneously a history of the United States and the world beyond.Trade 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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University of Minnesota Press Fighting for NOW: Diversity and Discord in the
Book SynopsisAn unparalleled exploration of NOW’s trajectory, from its founding to the present—and its future A new wave of feminist energy has swept the globe since 2016—from women’s marches and the #MeToo movement to transwomen’s inclusion and exclusion in feminism and participation in institutional politics. Amid all this, an organization declared dead or dying for thirty years—the National Organization for Women—has seen a membership boom. NOW presents an intriguing puzzle for scholars and activists alike. Considered one of the most stable organizations in the feminist movement, it has experienced much conflict and schism. Scholars have long argued that factionalism is the death knell of organizations, yet NOW continues to thrive despite internal conflicts. Fighting for NOW seeks to better understand how bureaucratic structures like NOW’s simultaneously provide stability and longevity, while creating space for productive and healthy conflict among members. Kelsy Kretschmer explores these ideas through an examination of conflict in NOW’s local chapters, its task forces and committees, and its satellite groups. NOW’s history provides evidence for three basic arguments: bureaucratic groups are not insulated from factionalism; they are important sites of creativity and innovation for their movements; and schisms are not inherently bad for movement organizations. Hence, Fighting for NOW is in stark contrast to conventional scholarship, which has conceptualized factionalism as organizational failure. It also provides one of the few book-length explorations of NOW’s trajectory, from its founding to the modern context. Scholars will welcome the book’s insights that draw on open systems and resource dependency theories, as well as its rethinking of how conflict shapes activist communities. Students will welcome its clear and compelling history of the feminist movement and of how feminist ideas have changed over the past five decades.Trade Review"In this examination of NOW from 1966-2009, Kelsy Kretschmer takes on the puzzle of how a long-lived organization such as NOW can survive all the schisms, splits, and turmoil it has experienced throughout its history. In this detailed analysis, Kretschmer illustrates how an organization that can be viewed as ‘dully’ bureaucratic instead tells an important story of how movement organizations ride the tide of conflicted activism and shifts in resources and political eras, as well as gains and defeats in the quest for social change." —Jo Reger, editor of Nevertheless, They Persisted: Feminisms and Continued Resistance in the U.S. Women’s Movement "Fighting for NOW is an exciting addition to the literature on feminist organizations. Kelsy Kretschmer provides a new perspective on the National Organization for Women as a bureaucratic organization by examining how infighting, schisms, and factionalism in NOW just might have helped the organization—and the American women’s movement—to survive and remain relevant for so many years." —Suzanne Staggenborg, University of PittsburghTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgments1. Feminist Organizations: Stability versus Creativity?2. Bureaucracies, Boundaries, and Splitting3. Breaking at the Roots: Local Schism in NOW4. Sticking at the Top: National Factionalism and the Choice to Stay5. Fracturing Task Forces6. Splitting Satellites: Nonprofit Status and Schism in Social MovementsConclusion: Schisms Aren’t Always BadAppendix: Data Sources and Research MethodsBibliography
£72.00
University of Minnesota Press Fighting for NOW: Diversity and Discord in the
Book SynopsisAn unparalleled exploration of NOW’s trajectory, from its founding to the present—and its future A new wave of feminist energy has swept the globe since 2016—from women’s marches and the #MeToo movement to transwomen’s inclusion and exclusion in feminism and participation in institutional politics. Amid all this, an organization declared dead or dying for thirty years—the National Organization for Women—has seen a membership boom. NOW presents an intriguing puzzle for scholars and activists alike. Considered one of the most stable organizations in the feminist movement, it has experienced much conflict and schism. Scholars have long argued that factionalism is the death knell of organizations, yet NOW continues to thrive despite internal conflicts. Fighting for NOW seeks to better understand how bureaucratic structures like NOW’s simultaneously provide stability and longevity, while creating space for productive and healthy conflict among members. Kelsy Kretschmer explores these ideas through an examination of conflict in NOW’s local chapters, its task forces and committees, and its satellite groups. NOW’s history provides evidence for three basic arguments: bureaucratic groups are not insulated from factionalism; they are important sites of creativity and innovation for their movements; and schisms are not inherently bad for movement organizations. Hence, Fighting for NOW is in stark contrast to conventional scholarship, which has conceptualized factionalism as organizational failure. It also provides one of the few book-length explorations of NOW’s trajectory, from its founding to the modern context. Scholars will welcome the book’s insights that draw on open systems and resource dependency theories, as well as its rethinking of how conflict shapes activist communities. Students will welcome its clear and compelling history of the feminist movement and of how feminist ideas have changed over the past five decades.Trade Review"In this examination of NOW from 1966-2009, Kelsy Kretschmer takes on the puzzle of how a long-lived organization such as NOW can survive all the schisms, splits, and turmoil it has experienced throughout its history. In this detailed analysis, Kretschmer illustrates how an organization that can be viewed as ‘dully’ bureaucratic instead tells an important story of how movement organizations ride the tide of conflicted activism and shifts in resources and political eras, as well as gains and defeats in the quest for social change." —Jo Reger, editor of Nevertheless, They Persisted: Feminisms and Continued Resistance in the U.S. Women’s Movement "Fighting for NOW is an exciting addition to the literature on feminist organizations. Kelsy Kretschmer provides a new perspective on the National Organization for Women as a bureaucratic organization by examining how infighting, schisms, and factionalism in NOW just might have helped the organization—and the American women’s movement—to survive and remain relevant for so many years." —Suzanne Staggenborg, University of PittsburghTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgments1. Feminist Organizations: Stability versus Creativity?2. Bureaucracies, Boundaries, and Splitting3. Breaking at the Roots: Local Schism in NOW4. Sticking at the Top: National Factionalism and the Choice to Stay5. Fracturing Task Forces6. Splitting Satellites: Nonprofit Status and Schism in Social MovementsConclusion: Schisms Aren’t Always BadAppendix: Data Sources and Research MethodsBibliography
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University of Minnesota Press Red Gold: The Managed Extinction of the Giant
Book SynopsisIlluminating the conditions for global governance to have precipitated the devastating decline of one of the ocean’s most majestic creatures The International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) is the world’s foremost organization for managing and conserving tunas, seabirds, turtles, and sharks traversing international waters. Founded by treaty in 1969, ICCAT stewards what has become under its tenure one of the planet’s most prominent endangered fish: the Atlantic bluefin tuna. Called “red gold” by industry insiders for the exorbitant price her ruby-colored flesh commands in the sushi economy, the giant bluefin tuna has crashed in size and number under ICCAT’s custodianship.With regulations to conserve these sea creatures in place for half a century, why have so many big bluefin tuna vanished from the Atlantic? In Red Gold, Jennifer E. Telesca offers unparalleled access to ICCAT to show that the institution has faithfully executed the task assigned it by international law: to fish as hard as possible to grow national economies. ICCAT manages the bluefin not to protect them but to secure export markets for commodity empires—and, as a result, has become complicit in their extermination.The decades of regulating fish as commodities have had disastrous consequences. Amid the mass extinction of all kinds of life today, Red Gold reacquaints the reader with the splendors of the giant bluefin tuna through vignettes that defy technoscientific and market rationales. Ultimately, this book shows, changing the way people value marine life must come not only from reforming ICCAT but from transforming the dominant culture that consents to this slaughter.Trade Review"Both unusually thorough and unusually heartfelt, Red Gold is filled with high quality factual detail yet is framed with graceful, thoughtfully considered language. As close as I’ve been to this extraordinary fish as a living creature and as the object of intense debate and conflicting policies over the years, I admire the job Jennifer Telesca has pulled off. I also learned a lot."—Carl Safina, author of Song for the Blue Ocean and Becoming Wild"Engaging and well-argued, Red Gold is an exemplary documentation of how bad-faith science conducted at the behest of corporate interests provides cover for the over-exploitation of ‘natural resources.’"—Daniel Pauly, author of Vanishing Fish: Shifting Baselines and the Future of Global Fisheries"Red Gold offers a deep and disturbing portrait of the intersecting impacts of the global food chain, international regulation, and ocean conservation. Jennifer E. Telesca’s powerful prose and analytic insight chart the drama of human-induced species decline in the name of conservation. Combining ethnography, political economy, legal studies, and scientific research with fast-paced storytelling, she provides an intimate account of ocean governance and environmental loss."—Brenda Chalfin, author of Neoliberal Frontiers: An Ethnography of Sovereignty in West Africa"Jennifer E. Telesca’s wide-ranging study of the giant bluefin tuna challenges many deeply held dogmas. We overfish because of the tragedy of the commons and think the solution is regulation. But Telesca argues that we are regulating our way to extinction. The tragedy is not of the commons, but of commodification. The drive to extinction will not stop until we value these animals as fellow travelers on this planet, rather than as resources from whom we can extract value."—Dale Jamieson, director, Center for Environmental and Animal Protection, New York University"In his decades of reviewing environmental policy literature, this reviewer has encountered few books that more passionately or poetically express grief over loss of a species than this extended epitaph for the giant warm-blooded Atlantic bluefin tuna."—CHOICE"It is worth taking a deep dive into Red Gold"—Public Books"Jennifer Telesca, in her first ethnographic monograph, writes with exuberance and determination as she examines the geoeconomics of Atlantic Bluefin tuna capture fisheries management. Using Atlantic Bluefin tuna as her ethnographic subject, Telesca follows the fish on her breathtaking travels across the Atlantic and Mediterranean, and through a long history of capture by human societies."—Political and Legal Anthropology Review "Telesca brilliantly analyzes the social and cultural dimensions of institutions engineered for economic and political ends. Red Gold can be read as an excellent ethnography and sociology of science of international deliberations, marine policymaking, and fisheries science."—American AnthropologistTable of ContentsContentsAbbreviationsPrologue. The Life and Death of Bluefin Tuna: Homage to an Ocean Giant Introduction. The Very Elder Gods Become Red Gold: Value on the High Seas1. A History of the Bluefin Tuna Trade: The Emergence of Commodity Empires2. A “Stock” Splits: Profiteering through International Law3. Saving the Glamour Fish: The Limits of Environmental Activism4. Alibis for Extermination: The Manipulation of Fisheries Science5. The Libyan Caper: A Rogue Player Wins the GameConclusion. All Hands on Deck: Confronting the Sixth ExtinctionAcknowledgmentsAppendix A. Contracting Parties to the ICCAT Convention, 1967–2012 Appendix B. Allocations in Export Quotas for Atlantic Bluefin TunaAppendix C. An Organizational Chart of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas through 2012NotesBibliographyIndex
£72.00
University of Minnesota Press Red Gold: The Managed Extinction of the Giant
Book SynopsisIlluminating the conditions for global governance to have precipitated the devastating decline of one of the ocean’s most majestic creatures The International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) is the world’s foremost organization for managing and conserving tunas, seabirds, turtles, and sharks traversing international waters. Founded by treaty in 1969, ICCAT stewards what has become under its tenure one of the planet’s most prominent endangered fish: the Atlantic bluefin tuna. Called “red gold” by industry insiders for the exorbitant price her ruby-colored flesh commands in the sushi economy, the giant bluefin tuna has crashed in size and number under ICCAT’s custodianship.With regulations to conserve these sea creatures in place for half a century, why have so many big bluefin tuna vanished from the Atlantic? In Red Gold, Jennifer E. Telesca offers unparalleled access to ICCAT to show that the institution has faithfully executed the task assigned it by international law: to fish as hard as possible to grow national economies. ICCAT manages the bluefin not to protect them but to secure export markets for commodity empires—and, as a result, has become complicit in their extermination.The decades of regulating fish as commodities have had disastrous consequences. Amid the mass extinction of all kinds of life today, Red Gold reacquaints the reader with the splendors of the giant bluefin tuna through vignettes that defy technoscientific and market rationales. Ultimately, this book shows, changing the way people value marine life must come not only from reforming ICCAT but from transforming the dominant culture that consents to this slaughter.Trade Review"Both unusually thorough and unusually heartfelt, Red Gold is filled with high quality factual detail yet is framed with graceful, thoughtfully considered language. As close as I’ve been to this extraordinary fish as a living creature and as the object of intense debate and conflicting policies over the years, I admire the job Jennifer Telesca has pulled off. I also learned a lot."—Carl Safina, author of Song for the Blue Ocean and Becoming Wild"Engaging and well-argued, Red Gold is an exemplary documentation of how bad-faith science conducted at the behest of corporate interests provides cover for the over-exploitation of ‘natural resources.’"—Daniel Pauly, author of Vanishing Fish: Shifting Baselines and the Future of Global Fisheries"Red Gold offers a deep and disturbing portrait of the intersecting impacts of the global food chain, international regulation, and ocean conservation. Jennifer E. Telesca’s powerful prose and analytic insight chart the drama of human-induced species decline in the name of conservation. Combining ethnography, political economy, legal studies, and scientific research with fast-paced storytelling, she provides an intimate account of ocean governance and environmental loss."—Brenda Chalfin, author of Neoliberal Frontiers: An Ethnography of Sovereignty in West Africa"Jennifer E. Telesca’s wide-ranging study of the giant bluefin tuna challenges many deeply held dogmas. We overfish because of the tragedy of the commons and think the solution is regulation. But Telesca argues that we are regulating our way to extinction. The tragedy is not of the commons, but of commodification. The drive to extinction will not stop until we value these animals as fellow travelers on this planet, rather than as resources from whom we can extract value."—Dale Jamieson, director, Center for Environmental and Animal Protection, New York University"In his decades of reviewing environmental policy literature, this reviewer has encountered few books that more passionately or poetically express grief over loss of a species than this extended epitaph for the giant warm-blooded Atlantic bluefin tuna."—CHOICE"It is worth taking a deep dive into Red Gold"—Public Books"Jennifer Telesca, in her first ethnographic monograph, writes with exuberance and determination as she examines the geoeconomics of Atlantic Bluefin tuna capture fisheries management. Using Atlantic Bluefin tuna as her ethnographic subject, Telesca follows the fish on her breathtaking travels across the Atlantic and Mediterranean, and through a long history of capture by human societies."—Political and Legal Anthropology Review "Telesca brilliantly analyzes the social and cultural dimensions of institutions engineered for economic and political ends. Red Gold can be read as an excellent ethnography and sociology of science of international deliberations, marine policymaking, and fisheries science."—American AnthropologistTable of ContentsContentsAbbreviationsPrologue. The Life and Death of Bluefin Tuna: Homage to an Ocean Giant Introduction. The Very Elder Gods Become Red Gold: Value on the High Seas1. A History of the Bluefin Tuna Trade: The Emergence of Commodity Empires2. A “Stock” Splits: Profiteering through International Law3. Saving the Glamour Fish: The Limits of Environmental Activism4. Alibis for Extermination: The Manipulation of Fisheries Science5. The Libyan Caper: A Rogue Player Wins the GameConclusion. All Hands on Deck: Confronting the Sixth ExtinctionAcknowledgmentsAppendix A. Contracting Parties to the ICCAT Convention, 1967–2012 Appendix B. Allocations in Export Quotas for Atlantic Bluefin TunaAppendix C. An Organizational Chart of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas through 2012NotesBibliographyIndex
£19.79
University of Minnesota Press The Global Shelter Imaginary: Ikea
Book SynopsisExamines how the humanitarian order advances a message of moral triumph and care while abandoning the dispossessed Prompted by a growing number of refugees and other displaced people, intersections of design and humanitarianism are proliferating. From the IKEA Foundation’s Better Shelter to Airbnb’s Open Homes program, the consumer economy has engaged the global refugee crisis with seemingly new tactics that normalize an institutionally sanctioned politics of evasion. Exploring “the global shelter imaginary,” this book charts the ways shelter functions as a form of rightless relief that expels recognition of the rights of the displaced and advances political paradoxes of displacement itself.
£9.00
Bristol University Press Organising for Change: Social Change Makers and
Book SynopsisScholars and students working in a wide range of disciplines including organization studies, political sociology, political science, history, social movement studies, third sector studies, humanitarian and development studies, and social work studies. Activists and practitioners.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. What are Social Change Makers and Social Change Organisations? 2. The Big Picture: Social Change Makers and Social Change Organisations in Historically Variable Contexts 3. Ways of Making Change 4. No Such Thing as a Free Gift: The Sources and Consequences of Resource Choices 5. People Making Change 6. Collaboration, Competition and Conflict 7. Outcomes of Social Change Making Conclusions: Organising for Change Appendix: Our Projects
£72.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd NGOs, Crisis Management and Conflict Resolution:
Book SynopsisDaniela Irrera explores the relationship between non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and intergovernmental organizations (IGOs).The author reviews the issue of NGO's participation in the decision-making processes of intergovernmental IGOs and investigates new activities undertaken by NGOs, including their participation in multilateral humanitarian intervention operations, crisis management and conflict resolution.Theoretical discourse is underpinned by empirical data from a survey of representatives from 28 humanitarian NGOs and networks of NGOs that are active in the fields of humanitarian assistance and peace building, as well as conflict transformation and mediation. It demonstrates that the role of non-state actors in the deployment of humanitarian interventions is destined to grow in the near future and promotes our understanding of such a development.Academics in a wide range of fields including development, international studies and public policy will find this book to be an enlightening read. It will also prove to be of great relevance to practitioners and policymakers in NGOs, IGOs, research centres and regional agencies.Contents: Introduction 1. Civil Society and Non-Governmental Organisations: Theoretical Overview 2. The Dialogue with the United Nations and the European Union 3. Non-Governmental Organisations and Humanitarian Action 4. Humanitarian NGOs and the UN Peace and Security Institutions 5. Humanitarian NGOs and the EU Security and Foreign Policy Institutions 6. NGOs' Roles in Peace Operations. A Survey Analysis Conclusions References Appendix 1: List of Humanitarian NGOs' Representatives Appendix 2: HNGOSRep Questionnaire: NGOs' Roles in Peace Missions and Humanitarian Interventions IndexTable of ContentsContents: Introduction 1. Civil Society and Non-Governmental Organisations: Theoretical Overview 2. The Dialogue with the United Nations and the European Union 3. Non-Governmental Organisations and Humanitarian Action 4. Humanitarian NGOs and the UN Peace and Security Institutions 5. Humanitarian NGOs and the EU Security and Foreign Policy Institutions 6. NGOs’ Roles in Peace Operations. A Survey Analysis Conclusions References Appendix 1: List of Humanitarian NGOs’ Representatives Appendix 2: HNGOSRep Questionnaire: NGOs’ Roles in Peace Missions and Humanitarian Interventions Index
£83.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Handbook of Research on NGOs
Book SynopsisThis volume provides a critical and stimulating overview of research on Non-governmental Organisations (NGOs). While it notes that the definition of NGOs is contested, and can include both business and national groups, it focuses primarily on international NGOs engaged with human rights, social and environmental concerns, and aid and development issues. The Handbook of Research on NGOs features contributions from Peter Willetts, Tom Davies, Bob Reinalda, Jutta Joachim and other key international authors. It provides readers with a series of thought provoking essays on both the general aspects of NGOs and significant issues of particular concern. This Handbook places NGOs in both historical and contemporary contexts, making it a valuable read for academics and research students seeking a detailed survey of the field. NGO practitioners looking to understand their operating environment in greater depth would also benefit from reading this important book.Contributors include: E. Bloodgood, T. Davies, T. Doyle, A. Elbra, H. Elsenhans, P. Fountain, F. Gale, J. Greenwood, C. Hsu, J. Joachim, M. Juul Petersen, A. Kellow, K. Martens, A. Mihr, H. Murphy-Gregory, D. Redeker, B. Reinalda, K. Ronit, J. Siméant-Germanos, A.C. Vakil, H. Warnecke, P. WillettsTrade Review'This very timely volume systematically analyses the roles of, and illustrates the range of issues addressed by, the array of NGOs that have burgeoned in recent decades as increasingly competent citizens aspire to shape international policy and practice, and as demands for governance exceed the capacities of national governments.' --Christopher Rootes, University of Kent, UK'This book provides just what a Handbook should: key debates concerning international NGOs and global politics; au courant insights and sources; and topnotch contributors from around the world. For those seeking orientation - or re-orientation - to the study of NGOs, one could not ask for a better guide.' --Clifford Bob, Duquesne University, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. NGOs and global politics Aynsley Kellow and Hannah Murphy-Gregory PART I INTRODUCTION TO NGOs 2. The historical development of NGOs Thomas Davies 3. NGOs in the History of Intergovernmental Organizations Bob Reinalda 4. NGOs as Insider Participants: Evolution of the role of NGOs at the United Nations Peter Willetts 5. A Return to the Classification Problem: Revising a Framework for Studying NGOs Anna C. Vakil 6. Quantifying NGOs Elizabeth A. Bloodgood PART II GLOBAL POLICY AREAS 7. NGOs and gender equality Jutta Joachim 8. Non-Governmental Development Organisations Hartmut Elsenhans and Hannes Warnecke-Berger 9. NGOs and global economic policy institutions Hannah Murphy-Gregory 10. NGOs and human rights Anja Mihr 11. NGOs and climate politics Aynsley Kellow 12. The Rise of Tax Justice NGOs and the New Politics of Corporate Taxation Ainsley Elbra 13. Environmental Non-Governmental Organizations Timothy Doyle 14. The Multiple Dilemmas of Consumer Associations in Global Politics Karsten Ronit PART III SOME ISSUES 15. NGOs and accountability Dennis Redeker and Kerstin Martens 16. NGOs and private governance/certification challenges Fred Gale 17. Going global: French NGOs “without borders” Johanna Siméant-Germanos 18. The Rise of NGOs in the People’s Republic of China Carolyn L. Hsu 19. NGOs in the European Union Justin Greenwood 20. NGOs and Religion: Instrumentalisation and its Discontents Philip Fountain and Marie Juul Petersen 21. NGOs and multi-level, multi-arena governance Aynsley Kellow and Hannah Murphy-Gregory Index
£182.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Organizational Ethnography
Book SynopsisEthnography is at the heart of what researchers in management and organization studies do. This crucial book offers a robust and original overview of ‘’doing’’ organizational ethnography, guiding readers through the essential qualitative methods for the study of organizations.Preparing students to enter the field with a confident outlook and a toolkit of skills, chapters present a series of action-learning projects to arm readers with practical exercises that will hone the abilities of the organizational ethnographer. Expert contributors offer crucial outlines into a variety of essential skills, including shadowing, autoethnography, interviews, media analysis and storytelling. The book concludes with a chapter by a doctoral student, providing unique insights into the development of the ethnographic understanding of organizational realities.Featuring useful exercises and an accessible style, this book is critical reading for PhD and Masters students in business administration and organizational theory, as well as social science students undertaking qualitative methodology programmes. It will also be useful for students on MBA courses in need of a humanistic approach to organizations.Trade Review’If only I had a book like this when I was starting out! Organizational Ethnography gives helpful direction for doing this important type of qualitative research in a multitude of ways. Each chapter presents an accessible account of a different ethnographic technique presented by researchers who have practiced it successfully. Insightful examples and helpful tips abound. I highly recommend this book to anyone intending to practice ethnography in organizations, new students and experienced researchers alike.’ -- - Mary Jo Hatch, University of Virginia, US and author of Organization Theory: Modern, Symbolic and Postmodern PerspectivesTable of ContentsContents List of contributors vii 1 Doing ethnography: introduction 1 Nancy Harding and Monika Kostera 2 Notes and poetry from the field: a fieldwork diary 18 Monika Kostera and Joanna Średnicka 3 Observation: on the importance of being there 31 Monika Kostera 4 How to shadow organizing 45 Barbara Czarniawska 5 Autoethnography 59 Mark Learmonth and Mike Humphreys 6 To look at the world from the Other’s point of view: interview 74 Monika Kostera and Anna Modzelewska 7 Inter-ethnography: from individual beings to collective becoming 91 David Calås, Katarina Ellborg, Daniel Ericsson, Elin Esperi Hallgren and Alina Husung 8 Media analysis: on the importance of everyday images 110 Alexia Panayiotou 9 Reading and interpreting social media: exploring positive emotional expressions in organizing 129 Noomi Weinryb, Nils Gustafsson and Cecilia Gullberg 10 Autoethnography through the folk tale lens 151 Anna Zueva 11 Ethnography meets storytelling: a marriage made in heaven 166 Hamid Foroughi 12 In search of openness to the ethnographic analysis of work: early organisational anthropology and contemporary organisational theorising 178 Paweł Krzyworzeka and Hugo Gaggiotti 13 Learning to see the wood through the trees as a PhD ethnographer 200 Sarah Bloomfield Index 217
£90.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Transnational Business Governance Interactions:
Book SynopsisFrom agriculture to sport and from climate change to indigenous rights, transnational regulatory regimes and actors are multiplying and interacting with poorly understood results. This interdisciplinary book investigates whether, how and by whom transnational business governance interactions (TBGIs) can be harnessed to improve the quality of transnational regulation and advance the interests of marginalized actors. Exploring multiple sectors and issue areas, Transnational Business Governance Interactions presents new empirical and theoretical research from leading and emerging scholars and identifies obstacles to, and opportunities for, mobilizing TBGIs to enhance regulatory capacities, outputs and outcomes and to advance marginalized actors in transnational business governance. The prime readership for this work is an interdisciplinary audience of academics including scholars of law, business, environmental studies, international relations, political science, political economy and sociology. Because of its attention to practical strategies to harness governance interactions to enhance regulatory quality and advance marginalized groups, the book will also be of interest to high-level participants in global business governance, including standards-setting bodies, certification bodies, auditors, trade associations, civil society organizations, social movement organizers, national regulators, overseas development agencies and international organizations. Contributors include: K.W. Abbott, G. Auld, M. Bach, S. Carodenuto, B. Cashore, D. Casey, C.C.-H. Chen, B. Eberlein, P. Foley, S. Gao, T. Havinga, L.F. Henriksen, E. Meidinger, N. Oman, P. Paiement, S. Renckens, R. Schmidt, L. Seabrooke, P. Verbruggen, O. Westerwinter, J.K. Winn, S. WoodTrade Review'Transnational Business Governance Interactions provides a detailed exploration of whether and how interactions between the transnational regulatory governance regimes of businesses in a range of sectors can be harnessed by those participating in them to improve regulatory quality and advance the interests of marginalised actors. It provides a rich set of case studies which examine when and how such interactions can be productive or constraining, and deepens our theoretical understandings of this important area of polycentric regulatory governance.' --Julia Black, London School of Economics and Political Science, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1 Transnational business governance interactions, regulatory quality and marginalized actors: An introduction 1 Stepan Wood, Burkard Eberlein, Errol Meidinger, Rebecca Schmidt and Kenneth W. Abbott PART I IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF TRANSNATIONAL REGULATION 2 Transnational business governance interactions in food safety regulation: Exploring the promises and risks of enrolment 28 Paul Verbruggen and Tetty Havinga 3 Governance interactions in sustainable supply chain management 52 Errol Meidinger 4 Local practices, transnational solutions? The role of host cities in the cyclical process of environmental regulation of sports mega-events 77 Rebecca Schmidt 5 Transnational governance of innovation in payment services: A case study of the Single Euro Payments Area 99 Jane K. Winn 6 Micro-level interactions in the compliance processes of transnational private governance: The market for Marine Stewardship Council auditors and assessors 123 Graeme Auld and Stefan Renckens 7 The evolution of transnational governance overlaps: A network approach 141 Oliver Westerwinter 8 Issue control in transnational business governance interactions 166 Lasse Folke Henriksen and Leonard Seabrooke PART II ADVANCING THE INTERESTS OF MARGINALIZED ACTORS 9 Interactions, iteration and early institutionalization: Competing lessons of GLOBALGAP’s legitimation 183 Donal Casey 10 Can non-state regulatory authority improve domestic forest sustainability? Assessing interactive pathways of influence in Cameroon 207 Sophia Carodenuto and Benjamin Cashore 11 Transnational delegation, accountability and the administrative governance of biofuel standards 227 Phillip Paiement 12 Capturing climate: Tracking nascent transnational business governance interactions around the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative 253 Matthew Bach 13 Transnational business governance interactions and financial regulation change: A case of Asian financial markets 275 Simin Gao and Christopher (Chao-Hung) Chen 14 A Coxian perspective on transnational business governance interactions: Counter-hegemonic certification movements in fisheries 294 Paul Foley 15 Private ordering and transnational social justice: The Forest Stewardship Council’s advocacy of free, prior and informed consent 315 Natalie Oman 16 Interactive strategies for advancing marginalized actors in transnational governance contests: Labour and the making of ISO 26000 338 Stepan Wood PART III CONCLUSIONS 17 Harnessing TBGIs to advance regulatory quality and marginalized actors 363 Stepan Wood, Errol Meidinger, Burkard Eberlein, Rebecca Schmidt and Kenneth W. Abbott Index 387
£128.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Agents, Assumptions and Motivations Behind REDD+:
Book SynopsisIt was hoped that by paying forest dependent peoples and countries for their 'service' of conserving their forests, REDD+ would lead to a reduction in deforestation greenhouse gases. The complexities have, however, left some ambiguities. It was never agreed who would pay for the programme, and it has been criticised as ignoring the root causes of forest loss. Considering the motivations of those who promoted REDD+ this book proposes remedies to its shortfalls and recommends more efficient, equitable and effective conservation policies.Describing REDD+ from an agency perspective, this book provides a first-hand account of how individuals and institutions influenced international negotiations. It offers a comparative analysis of REDD+ as a forest conservation regime and of the way it was incorporated into the 2015 Paris agreements. In doing so, this book shows how contextual inequalities and power imbalances can result in international regimes which favour the economically powerful, and proposes providing greater roles for the assumed beneficiaries of environmental agreements in negotiations.This is an excellent introduction to REDD+, its background and execution, and will be a vital resource for students of international environmental governance, as well as for academics and researchers working on REDD+, forest policy and international governance in general.Trade Review‘This book provides a rich overview of the multifaceted phenomenon -- referred to as REDD+, and invites further analysis of what might become (or not) a new international forest regime.’– Véra Ehrenstein, Review of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Studies (RAFE)Table of ContentsContents: Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: The Role of Agents and the Establishment of the REDD+ Regime 2. The Role of Agents in Earth System Governance 3. The Agency of Governments in REDD+ 4. The Agency of Non-State Actors in REDD+ 5. The Assumptions behind REDD+ 6. The Effectiveness of the REDD+ Regime 7. The Economic Efficiency of the REDD+ Regime 8. The Social Equity of the REDD+ Regime 9. Conclusions References Index
£109.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd States, International Organizations and Strategic
Book SynopsisIn post-Cold War international relations, strategic partnerships are an emerging and distinct analytical and political category critical in understanding the dynamics of contemporary strategic cooperation between states and International Organizations. However, the idea of strategic partnerships has remained under-theorized and overshadowed by the alliance theory. Addressing this clear-cut gap in the International Relations/Foreign Policy Analysis literature, this book originally endeavors to theorize and empirically test the analytical model of strategic partnerships as a new form of sustainable international cooperation in times of globalized interdependence and turbulence. Framed by the mixed-methods research strategy as well as essentially drawing on software-supported content analysis and statistical hypothesis testing, this book empirically explores fourteen of the most-diverse case studies of strategic partnerships forged by the European Union, NATO, ASEAN and the Andean Community. It challenges and tests a number of advanced scholarly propositions on the notion of these partnerships and succeeds in confirming the allegedly most salient assumptions -strategic partnerships are innately goal-driven and trust-based frameworks of sustainable bilateral alignment and structured international engagement in twenty-first century world politics. This edited volume addresses topical issues for both theory and practice of international relations, for it will enjoy a broad appeal among three major audiences and markets: academics and policy analysts, policy professionals and graduate and postgraduate students. 'An outstanding comparative tour de force on strategic partnerships across the world. It differs from previous research due to a thorough, well thought out, innovative theoretical framework used consistently throughout the 14 case studies. It includes well-documented studies on the major countries of the world and their relationships with the European Union, Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN), the Andean Community (CAN) and the North Atlantic Trade Organization (NATO). The innovative, quantitative and qualitative methodology used is extensively explained and based on a database on strategic partnerships. An indispensable tool and deserving a special place in any library.' - José M. Magone, Berlin School of Economics and Law, GermanyTrade Review'Over the past decade, ''strategic partnerships'' have multiplied in international politics, becoming a prominent tool of diplomacy. However, only few academics have focussed on these partnerships, either as concept or instrument. This book is a fine contribution to locate ''strategic partnerships'' in the IR literature, building on interesting theoretical and empirical insights.' --Thomas Renard, Egmont Institute, Belgium'In the book, the strategic partnership is analyzed in empirical and theoretical terms as a form of cooperation between states and international organizations conditioned by changes at the level of the international system after the end of the Cold War. One of the undeniable advantages of the book is, first of all, the abandonment of the state-centric approach to strategic partnership dominating as so far in IR research. Secondly, strategic partnership of cooperation between NATO, EU, ASEAN, CAN and 14 countries is analyzed - on the one hand - as a relatively new area of IR practice, and on the other hand as the subject of theoretical thinking and as a proposed original model, which is a suggested tool for studying the practice of strategic partnership.' --Marek Pietras, Marie Curie Skodowska University, Poland'This immense and impressive volume is a welcome and timely contribution to the study of strategic partnerships in international relations. With its focus on strategic partnerships between states and international organizations, it covers a hitherto underexplored aspect of this form of cooperation. Empirically rich and theoretically ambitious, this volume will be an indispensable reference for anyone seeking to understand the full range of strategic partnerships in world politics today and the implications for international relations theory.' --Ulrich Krotz, European University Institute, ItalyTable of ContentsContents: PART I THEORY 1. Strategic Partnerships, International Politics and IR Theory Andriy Tyushka and Lucyna Czechowska 2. States, International Organizations and Strategic Partnerships: Theorizing an ‘Ideal Model’ Andriy Tyushka, Lucyna Czechowska, Agata Domachowska, Karolina Gawron-Tabor and Joanna Piechowiak-Lamparska PART II MODEL 3. Model Specification and Operationalization: The Basic Correlates of Strategic Partnerships Lucyna Czechowska, Agata Domachowska, Karolina Gawron-Tabor, Joanna Piechowiak-Lamparska and Andriy Tyushka PART III CASE STUDIES NATO Strategic Partnerships 4. The Beginning of a New Cold War? The Failure of the NATO-Russia Strategic Partnership Joanna Piechowiak-Lamparska 5. The Long and Winding Road to Strategic Partnership: The NATO–Japan Relations Agata Domachowska 6. An Evolving NATO–Ukraine Strategic Partnership in a Turbulent Security Environment Andriy Tyushka EU Strategic Partnerships 7. Between Cooperation and Competition: The Strategic Partnership Between the European Union and the US Karolina Gawron-Tabor 8. A Marriage of Convenience? The EU–India Reluctant Strategic Partnership Lucyna Czechowska 9. The EU–Japan Cooperation: Sluggish but Gradual and Stable Road to Strategic Partnership Piotr Pięta 10. Close and Enhanced Cooperation for Mutual Benefit: The EU–Georgia Strategic Partnership as Something Beyond Joanna Piechowiak-Lamparska ASEAN Strategic Partnerships 11. Doomed to Cooperate? The ASEAN–China Partnership Agata Domachowska 12. The Imitation Game? The Partnership between ASEAN and Canada in Search of Strategic Relevance Bartosz Płotka 13. The ASEAN-Australia Strategic Partnership: Australia as an Awkward Partner Karolina Gawron-Tabor 14. ‘Trusted Friends, Dynamic Partners’: A Modest but Steadfast ASEAN–New Zealand Strategic Partnership Lucyna Czechowska CAN Strategic Partnerships 15. The Development vs Geo-Economics Nexus in the CAN–China Interactionism Andriy Tyushka 16. Macroeconomic Convergence and Strategic (Ir)Relevance Trap in the CAN–Brazilian Interactionism Andriy Tyushka 17. Together We CAN!... or CAN’T? A Struggling Détente between the Andean Community and Chile and (Lost) Opportunities of a Strategic Partnership Bartłomiej Różycki Conclusions Andriy Tyushka, Agata Domachowska, Lucyna Czechowska, Karolina Gawron-Tabor and Joanna Piechowiak-Lamparska Index
£150.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Handbook of Collaborative Public Management
Book SynopsisThis insightful Handbook presents readers with a comprehensive range of original research within the field of Collaborative Public Management (CPM). As a central area of study and practice in public administration, the Handbook explores the most important questions facing collaboration and provides future research directions and new areas of study.Featuring expert contributions from a diverse range of scholars, this Handbook showcases the emergence of collaborative governance research and charts connections among the multiple arenas of CPM; including public/private partnerships, emergency management and climate change management. Chapters cover the fundamental practices and limitations of CPM as well as future possibilities. Reflecting on leading theories and research, the Handbook argues that CPM is both an evolving field, as well as a varied and maturing one that is worthy of continued exploration.The Handbook will be a valuable resource to scholars and graduate students in subjects such as public administration and public policy, who are interested in examining current research and approaches within the field. The examination of collaborative initiatives will also be beneficial to administrative leaders in public services who want to understand how to lead and manage more dynamic arrangements.Trade Review‘At a time of growing complexity of pressing public policy problems, the authors in this book masterfully examine collaboration as a way to address those problems. The balanced and thoughtful assessments of the many facets of collaboration open doors to greater understanding concerning the what, how, and why behind the decision to collaborate. The new ideas presented here -- from macro network analyses to micro examinations of how to collaborate -- are a breath of fresh air. This is a “must read” for anyone interested in collaboration as a management, leadership, or policy strategy.’ -- - Rosemary O'Leary, University of Kansas School of Public Affairs, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface xxvi Acknowledgements xxix Introduction: collaborative public management as an emergent field xxx Jack Wayne Meek PART I PRACTICES AND PATTERNS OF COLLABORATIVE PUBLIC MANAGEMENT 1 Collaboration: what does it really mean? 2 Margaret Stout and Robyn Keast 2 The collaborative governance networks literature: a comprehensive and systematic review 21 Göktuğ Morçöl, Eunsil Yoo, Shahinshah Faisal Azim, and Aravind Menon 3 Negotiation within collaborative networks 35 Elise Boruvka and Lisa Blomgren Amsler 4 Mapping the communities of practice of public administrators 51 Christopher Koliba 5 The generation and selection of diversity in collaborative processes: an evolutionary view 69 Lasse Gerrits and Robin Chang 6 The complexity of integrating sustainability with transportation asset management processes: governance of intergovernmental decision-making on prioritizing transportation infrastructure projects 83 Asim Zia and Christopher Koliba PART II ARENAS OF COLLABORATIVE PUBLIC MANAGEMENT 7 Hybridity and the search for the right mix in governing PPP collaboration 97 Erik Hans Klijn, Joop Koppenjan, and Rianne Warsen 8 Collaborative governance of freshwater 113 Elizabeth Eppel and Jackie Dingfelder 9 Collaborative emergency management: effectiveness of emergency management networks 130 Jenna Tyler and Naim Kapucu 10 A ‘Key Actors Governance Framework’ (KAGF) for nature-based solutions to societal challenges 148 Siobhan McQuaid, Mary Lee Rhodes and Aitziber Egusquiza Ortega 11 Local governments and shared services: insights on institutional mechanisms, partners, and purpose 163 Jun Li, José Sánchez, Jered B. Carr, Michael D. Siciliano 12 Who will risk interlocal collaboration? 180 Evan Walter and Kurt Thurmaier 13 Collaboration in public budgeting 197 Marcia L. Godwin 14 Democratizing network governance: the role of citizen input 212 Sofia Prysmakova-Rivera 15 From collaborative responsiveness to collaborative empowerment 225 Thomas Andrew Bryer PART III THE LIMITS OF COLLABORATIVE PUBLIC MANAGEMENT 16 Tribal sovereignty and the limits and potential of inter-governmental collaboration 237 Kathy Quick 17 Functional collective action dilemma and collaborative management 252 Heewon Lee 18 Collaborative governance of SDGs: a welfare economics view 266 Frank Naert 19 Limitations of collaborative public management in American fiscal federalism 283 Soomi Lee PART IV ADVANCING COLLABORATIVE PUBLIC MANAGEMENT PERFORMANCE 20 Improving the use of science in collaborative governance 297 Tomas M. Koontz and Craig W. Thomas 21 Collaborating in high-reliability settings 315 Olivier Berthod and Jörg Sydow 22 Fostering sustainable community outcomes through policy networks: a dynamic performance governance approach 333 Carmine Bianchi 23 Continuous improvement (CI) in collaborative management 357 Robert Agranoff 24 Implementation in collaboration governance 386 Tina Nabatchi and Kirk Emerson 25 The social embedding of generic governance instruments 405 Christopher Ansell, Eva Sørensen and Jacob Torfing 26 Collaborative governance under stress: limits, failure, renewal 425 Louise K. Comfort Epilogue: the significance of collaborative public management 442 Jack Wayne Meek Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Organizational Ethnography
Book SynopsisEthnography is at the heart of what researchers in management and organization studies do. This crucial book offers a robust and original overview of ‘’doing’’ organizational ethnography, guiding readers through the essential qualitative methods for the study of organizations.Preparing students to enter the field with a confident outlook and a toolkit of skills, chapters present a series of action-learning projects to arm readers with practical exercises that will hone the abilities of the organizational ethnographer. Expert contributors offer crucial outlines into a variety of essential skills, including shadowing, autoethnography, interviews, media analysis and storytelling. The book concludes with a chapter by a doctoral student, providing unique insights into the development of the ethnographic understanding of organizational realities.Featuring useful exercises and an accessible style, this book is critical reading for PhD and Masters students in business administration and organizational theory, as well as social science students undertaking qualitative methodology programmes. It will also be useful for students on MBA courses in need of a humanistic approach to organizations.Trade Review’If only I had a book like this when I was starting out! Organizational Ethnography gives helpful direction for doing this important type of qualitative research in a multitude of ways. Each chapter presents an accessible account of a different ethnographic technique presented by researchers who have practiced it successfully. Insightful examples and helpful tips abound. I highly recommend this book to anyone intending to practice ethnography in organizations, new students and experienced researchers alike.’ -- - Mary Jo Hatch, University of Virginia, US and author of Organization Theory: Modern, Symbolic and Postmodern PerspectivesTable of ContentsContents List of contributors vii 1 Doing ethnography: introduction 1 Nancy Harding and Monika Kostera 2 Notes and poetry from the field: a fieldwork diary 18 Monika Kostera and Joanna Średnicka 3 Observation: on the importance of being there 31 Monika Kostera 4 How to shadow organizing 45 Barbara Czarniawska 5 Autoethnography 59 Mark Learmonth and Mike Humphreys 6 To look at the world from the Other’s point of view: interview 74 Monika Kostera and Anna Modzelewska 7 Inter-ethnography: from individual beings to collective becoming 91 David Calås, Katarina Ellborg, Daniel Ericsson, Elin Esperi Hallgren and Alina Husung 8 Media analysis: on the importance of everyday images 110 Alexia Panayiotou 9 Reading and interpreting social media: exploring positive emotional expressions in organizing 129 Noomi Weinryb, Nils Gustafsson and Cecilia Gullberg 10 Autoethnography through the folk tale lens 151 Anna Zueva 11 Ethnography meets storytelling: a marriage made in heaven 166 Hamid Foroughi 12 In search of openness to the ethnographic analysis of work: early organisational anthropology and contemporary organisational theorising 178 Paweł Krzyworzeka and Hugo Gaggiotti 13 Learning to see the wood through the trees as a PhD ethnographer 200 Sarah Bloomfield Index 217
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd How Business Organizes Collectively: An Inquiry
Book SynopsisCollective action by firms is a central phenomenon in society, seen for example in standards setting, multi-stakeholder initiatives, and in relation to climate change, environmental and human rights issues. This incisive book reveals how firms set up specific devices, referred to by the authors as FCADs (Firms' Collective Action Devices), of which trade associations and chambers of commerce are the traditional forms, and investigates how firms organize themselves collectively, and their impact on the economy and democracy. Delving deeply into previously under-explored aspects of collective actions by firms, using the concepts of meta-organization and heterarchy, the book combines and expands on insights from history, political science, economics, sociology, management and organization theory. It demonstrates empirically how FCADs function on the basis of compromise and consensus, and analyzes their forms of action, their organizational dynamics and their recent evolution. This rigorous and pluridisciplinary evaluation of how businesses organize collectively will appeal to researchers and PhD students in organization studies and business management, as well as those in other disciplines who are interested in firms' collective action. It will also be a useful resource for business practitioners, public servants and politicians in contact with firms' collective action, and NGO members.Trade Review'This study is an important contribution to our knowledge of meta-organizations. Trade associations are more dynamic and important than is usually assumed. Dumez and Renou clearly show why trade associations are a theoretical and empirically fruitful area of research with great political significance, not least in global contexts. The theoretical analysis of trade associations as meta-organizations provides important new insights that are tested in an analysis of multi-stakeholder organizations.' --Göran Ahrne, Stockholm Centre for Organizational Research, Sweden'In times when a small number of powerful corporations rule the global economy, it is easy to overlook the fact that firms act collectively through large organizations to protect their interests or define the rules of the game. What are the historical roots of these collective action organizations? What are the political and economic implications of their operations? How do they operate internally? How can we analyze them? Dumez and Renou systematically answer these questions in this groundbreaking study.' --Marcelo Bucheli, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USTable of ContentsContents: Part 1 Firms collective action: A synoptic view 1. The emergence and evolution of business meta-organizations 2. On political and economic problems raised by business meta-organizations Part 2 Within trade associations and other meta-organizations 3. FCADs as a mix of heterarchy and hierarchy 4. Dynamic Analysis of a business meta-organization 5. The ways of acting of business meta-organizations 6. Other types FCADs Conclusion References Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd The Making of International Trade Policy: NGOs,
Book SynopsisThis book investigates the contributions of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) to policymaking at the WTO, challenging the idea that NGOs can be narrowly understood as potential 'democratic antidotes' to the imperfections of Inter-Governmental Organizations (IGOs).The book highlights the significance of interactions between states, NGOs and IGOs, in order to understand their contributions to international trade governance. Based on case studies in the areas of labour standards, intellectual property and investment rules, the author finds that NGO activities serve an agenda setting function: they publicize neglected trade-related issues, persuade others to support their positions, enhance the resources of less developed member states and highlight normative rationales for policy change. In evaluating NGO campaign tactics and emphasizing relations between NGOs and WTO member states, this book advances understandings of the parameters of NGO agency in global governance.The Making of International Trade Policy will appeal to scholars and students with an interest in NGOs, research institutes and thinktanks, as well as policymakers, national trade negotiators, government departments and the trade policy community. NGO personnel active on WTO and trade policy issues - both researchers and activists - will also find this book thought-provoking.Trade Review'The discipline of international relations is in disarray, now that sovereign national states are no longer its exclusive actors. But what can non-state, non-governmental actors accomplish - or prevent from happening? In this pioneering work, Hannah Murphy explores both the potentialities and limits of NGO intervention in the substantive arena of international trade policy.' --From the foreword by Philippe C. Schmitter, European University Institute, Italy'Hannah Murphy provides a refreshingly realistic account of NGO influence in international trade policy. Carefully argued and persuasive, her book lays out the possibilities and limits of advocacy. Throwing cold water on overheated claims about NGO power to democratize the WTO, Murphy emphasizes how WTO rules shape NGO activities. As she deftly shows, this leaves room for activists to help set the WTO agenda even as they often legitimate, rather than challenge, state interests.' --Clifford Bob, Duquesne University, USTable of ContentsContents: Foreword 1. Introduction: NGOs and the WTO 2. NGOs, States and the WTO: Towards a Governance-centred Perspective 3. Conceptualizing NGO Activity in the WTO Contex 4. The Campaign for International Core Labour Standards at the WTO 5. Safeguards Pending: TRIPS and the Access to Medicines Campaign 6. The NGO Campaign Against a WTO Investment Agreement 7. Understanding the Agenda-setting Roles of NGOs at the WTO 8. Conclusion Index
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Zone Books Nongovernmental Politics
Book SynopsisTo be involved in politics without aspiring to govern, be governed by the best leaders, or abolish the institutions of government: such are the constraints that delineate the condition common to all practitioners of nongovernmental politics. What these activists seek to accomplish ranges considerably: providing humanitarian aid, protecting the environment, monitoring human-rights and civil-liberties violations, adding new entitlements to the list of fundamental rights and liberties, defending the interests of corporations' stakeholders workers, suppliers, consumers and expanding public access to knowledge are only the most frequent among their pursuits. Yet, heterogeneous concerns notwithstanding, what all involvements in nongovernmental politics have in common is that they are predicated on an intolerance for the effects of a particular set of governmental practices. In other words, the issue that specifically concerns nongovernmental activists is not who governs but how government is exercised.Nongovernmental Politics offers a groundbreaking survey of the rapidly expanding domain of nongovernmental activism. The critical essays, profiles of NGOs, and interviews with prominent activists included in this volume attest to the diversity of nongovernmental politics but also to the common predicaments faced by its practitioners predicaments regarding their legitimacy, strategy, and grievances. This book first examines the various motives such as defending rights, providing care, supporting fair claims, facilitating access that nongovernmental activists invoke to justify and specify their modes of intervention. It then successively analyzes the ways in which nongovernmental agencies construct their credibility and publicize their cause, and explores some sites, such as borders and disaster zones, which have a particular significance for nongovernmental work. Finally, Nongovernmental Politics focuses on the competing designs wresting civil society from the control of an unaccountable state, shaking the global dominance of corporate interests, hastening the return of the Savior, restoring the order prescribed by the Prophet that currently preside over the endeavors of nongovernmental activists.
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Rutgers University Press Implementing Inequality: The Invisible Labor of
Book SynopsisImplementing Inequality argues that the international development industry’s internal dynamics—between international and national staff, and among policy makers, administrators, and implementers—shape interventions and their outcomes as much as do the external dynamics of global political economy. Through an ethnographic study in postwar Angola, the book demonstrates how the industry’s internal social pressures guide development’s methods and goals, introducing the innovative concept of the development implementariat: those in-country workers, largely but not exclusively “local” staff members, charged with carrying out development’s policy prescriptions. The implementariat is central to the development endeavor but remains overlooked and under-supported as most of its work is deeply social, interactive, and relational, the kind of work that receives less recognition and support than it deserves at every echelon of the industry. If international development is to meet its larger purpose, it must first address its internal inequalities of work and professional class. Trade Review"Lower wages for local employees, sexism and racism in their own ranks: development organizations are not free from power relations that they actually want to abolish. Experts and employees repeatedly criticize the inequality within aid organizations. With her large-scale field study on a democratization project in Angola, anthropologist Rebecca Warne Peters makes a contribution to the debate. Above all, she reveals the balance of power between project staff and administrative employees."— welt-sichten “Implementing Inequality is a rare book that comes alive in the best tradition of ethnographic description while building solid theory. Peters' rich account humanizes people in the "implementariat" and their daily challenges, struggles, and decisions. Ultimately hopeful, Implementing Inequality reminds us that frontline workers are already policymakers whose experience can guide a still-possible transformative development.”— Mark Schuller, author of Humanitarian Aftershocks in Haiti "Implementing Inequality is a useful read for both students and development professionals. It could serve as a trigger for self-reflection and urges better practices and greater understanding within the sector."— LSE US Centre American Politics and Policy blog “This is a timely and well-judged analysis of the ‘internal inequalities’ that exist at the heart of the project of international development. In a thoughtful and highly readable account of a governance program in Angola, Rebecca Warne Peters combines original theoretical insight with careful empirical analysis.”— David Lewis, author of Non-Governmental Organizations, Management and Development " Applying currently fashionable concepts with a modicum of theoretical baggage, Peters examines, in anthropological detail, international development, “the purposeful pursuit of social change,” as it is carried out by the implementariate who seek to fulfill the wishes of policy makers, consultants, and donors. Well written and well organized, this is an important contribution to the literature on the intersection of international development and anthropology. Highly recommended." — ChoiceTable of ContentsGlossary of Terms and Acronyms Introduction Inside the Encounter: The Implementariat Implementation as Internal and External “Social Work” Good Governance as “Development” in Angola Research Methods and Chapter Sketches Chapter 1: Development Hierarchies The Development Industry and Development Ideology Professional Inequalities Principal-Agent Thinking and Development’s Common Sense “Shadow Work” in Development Development Work and “Making Policy” Chapter 2: Development’s Inputs and Outputs “Technically Skilled GGAP Staff…” “… and Sufficient Support” Inputs and Outputs Invisible Development Work, Invisible Development Workers Chapter 3: Reinforcing Hierarchies: Monitoring and Evaluation Monitoring and Evaluation Instruments and Tools “Quality” Data The “Lopsided Structures” of International Development Chapter 4: Designing Interventions for Peers, Not Beneficiaries Development’s Peerage Interventions Designed for Peers, not Places Sites Known and Unknown: Seeing Like a Donor Reputations at Risk Absence and Inequality in Development Intervention Chapter 5: Partnership and the Development Praxiscape Founding Partnerships The Development “We” “Battling” Toward Governance Partners or Proprietors? Partnership as Development Praxis Conclusion: Development Without Borders Shadow Work out of the Shadows Expanding Principal-Agent Thinking Tomorrow’s Development Acknowledgments Appendix: GGAP Logical Framework Notes Bibliography Index
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Rutgers University Press Implementing Inequality: The Invisible Labor of
Book SynopsisImplementing Inequality argues that the international development industry’s internal dynamics—between international and national staff, and among policy makers, administrators, and implementers—shape interventions and their outcomes as much as do the external dynamics of global political economy. Through an ethnographic study in postwar Angola, the book demonstrates how the industry’s internal social pressures guide development’s methods and goals, introducing the innovative concept of the development implementariat: those in-country workers, largely but not exclusively “local” staff members, charged with carrying out development’s policy prescriptions. The implementariat is central to the development endeavor but remains overlooked and under-supported as most of its work is deeply social, interactive, and relational, the kind of work that receives less recognition and support than it deserves at every echelon of the industry. If international development is to meet its larger purpose, it must first address its internal inequalities of work and professional class. Trade Review“This is a timely and well-judged analysis of the ‘internal inequalities’ that exist at the heart of the project of international development. In a thoughtful and highly readable account of a governance program in Angola, Rebecca Warne Peters combines original theoretical insight with careful empirical analysis.” -- David Lewis * author of Non-Governmental Organizations, Management and Development *“Implementing Inequality is a rare book that comes alive in the best tradition of ethnographic description while building solid theory. Peters' rich account humanizes people in the "implementariat" and their daily challenges, struggles, and decisions. Ultimately hopeful, Implementing Inequality reminds us that frontline workers are already policymakers whose experience can guide a still-possible transformative development.” -- Mark Schuller * author of Humanitarian Aftershocks in Haiti *" Applying currently fashionable concepts with a modicum of theoretical baggage, Peters examines, in anthropological detail, international development, “the purposeful pursuit of social change,” as it is carried out by the implementariate who seek to fulfill the wishes of policy makers, consultants, and donors. Well written and well organized, this is an important contribution to the literature on the intersection of international development and anthropology. Highly recommended." * Choice *"Implementing Inequality is a useful read for both students and development professionals. It could serve as a trigger for self-reflection and urges better practices and greater understanding within the sector." * LSE US Centre American Politics and Policy blog *"Lower wages for local employees, sexism and racism in their own ranks: development organizations are not free from power relations that they actually want to abolish. Experts and employees repeatedly criticize the inequality within aid organizations. With her large-scale field study on a democratization project in Angola, anthropologist Rebecca Warne Peters makes a contribution to the debate. Above all, she reveals the balance of power between project staff and administrative employees." * welt-sichten *Table of ContentsGlossary of Terms and Acronyms Introduction Inside the Encounter: The Implementariat Implementation as Internal and External “Social Work” Good Governance as “Development” in Angola Research Methods and Chapter Sketches Chapter 1: Development Hierarchies The Development Industry and Development Ideology Professional Inequalities Principal-Agent Thinking and Development’s Common Sense “Shadow Work” in Development Development Work and “Making Policy” Chapter 2: Development’s Inputs and Outputs “Technically Skilled GGAP Staff…” “… and Sufficient Support” Inputs and Outputs Invisible Development Work, Invisible Development Workers Chapter 3: Reinforcing Hierarchies: Monitoring and Evaluation Monitoring and Evaluation Instruments and Tools “Quality” Data The “Lopsided Structures” of International Development Chapter 4: Designing Interventions for Peers, Not Beneficiaries Development’s Peerage Interventions Designed for Peers, not Places Sites Known and Unknown: Seeing Like a Donor Reputations at Risk Absence and Inequality in Development Intervention Chapter 5: Partnership and the Development Praxiscape Founding Partnerships The Development “We” “Battling” Toward Governance Partners or Proprietors? Partnership as Development Praxis Conclusion: Development Without Borders Shadow Work out of the Shadows Expanding Principal-Agent Thinking Tomorrow’s Development Acknowledgments Appendix: GGAP Logical Framework Notes Bibliography Index
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Taylor & Francis NGOs Knowledge Production and Global Humanist Advocacy
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