Disciplining Dissent: NGOs and Community Organizations

“…NonGovernmental Development Organisations (NGDOs) and other social actors have adopted these ideas, becoming project implementers. In this process, some of them may have lost the more openly political profiles they had in the past (Choudry and Shragge 2011). They may also have become part of a model of cooperation that promotes the managerialisation of local organisations, sustains the status quo and reproduces unequal power relationships (Dar and Cooke 2008;Mawdsley et al 2002).…”

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Informal Learning for Citizenship Building in Shared Struggles for Rights: Cases of Political Solidarity Between Colombian and Spanish Organisations

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Dominant discourses and practices in international cooperation have been characterised by depoliticisation and unequal power relationships. However, a number of more transformative experiences of cooperation also exist, where joint work between Northern and Southern social organisations is linked with a more political perspective. These kinds of experiences can be considered processes of informal learning in social action: through shared actions, strategies and frameworks and through interaction between organisations, institutions and the grassroots, informal and multidimensional learning processes occur in the people and organisations engaged. The study approaches four cases of networks that have linked Spanish and Colombian organisations which promote advocacy and social mobilisation for the defence of human rights in Colombia. The results show that people engaged in the cases experience intense learning processes that are relevant for the construction of solidarities and a radical global citizenship, but that these processes are also replete with limitations, tensions and challenges.Résumé Les discours dominants et les pratiques dans le domaine de coopération internationale ont été caractérisés par la dépolitisation et des rapports de force inégaux. Toutefois, un certain nombre d'expériences de coopération plus transformatrices existent également, au cours desquelles un travail commun entre les organisations sociales du Nord et du Sud est associé à un point de vue plus politique. Ces expériences peuvent être considérées comme des processus informels d'apprentissage en action sociale: grâce à des actions, des stratégies et des cadres communs et grâce à l'interaction entre les organisations, les institutions et les populations locales, des processus d'apprentissage informels et multidimensionnels apparaissent parmi les personnes et les organisations engagées. Cette étude aborde quatre exemples de réseaux qui ont associé des organisations espagnoles et colombiennes promouvant la sensibilisation et la mobilisation sociale pour la défense des droits de l'homme en Colombie. Les résultats montrent que les personnes engagées dans ces exemples connaissent des processus d'apprentissage intenses pertinents pour la construction de solidarités et d'une citoyenneté mondiale radicale, mais aussi que ces processus sont remplis de limites, de tensions et de défis.Zusammenfassung Die vorherrschenden Diskussionen und Praktiken in der internationalen Zusammenarbeit zeichnen sich seit einiger Zeit durch eine Entpolitisierung und ungleiche Machtbeziehungen aus. Allerdings gibt es auch eine Reihe von transformativeren Erfahrungen bei der Zusammenarbeit, wo die Kooperation zwischen nördlichen und südlichen sozialen Organisationen mit einer politischeren Perspektive in Verbindung steht. Solche Erfahrungen können als Prozesse informalen Lernens im Rahmen sozialen Handelns betrachtet werden: Gemeinsames Handeln, gemeinsame Strategien und Systeme sowie die Wechselbeziehung zwischen Organisationen, Institutionen und Basisbewegungen führen...

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“…Conversely, NGDOs embracing a more 'radical' stance should be sensible to the process of production of frames and discourses on rights, and would be opened to local knowledge and visions on rights, causes of rights violations and strategies for social change which emerge from people's everyday struggles (Choudry & Shragge, 2011). Such NGDOs would embrace notions of rights rooted in particular contexts, be they recognized by law or derived from liberal frames or not.…”

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“…Political economy allows articulating rights around issues of control, production and distribution of resources (Li, 2007) also reframing development as a contextual, conflictive and political process (McCourt, 2008), and embracing an agenda of social transformation (Choudry and Shragge, 2011;Gulrajani, 2010). From a legalist perspective of rights and RBAs, instead, experts are more easily considered as the sole agents legitimised to tackle developmental challenges (Srinivas, 2009), which can be framed ignoring political-economic issues in their diagnoses and prescriptions, representing domains in purely technical and non-political terms (Li, 2007), following the juridic jargon.…”

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Are rights-based approaches helping (re)politicise development NGOs? Exploring the Spanish case

Belda‐Miquel¹,

Aristizábal²,

Cuesta-Fernandez³

et al. 2016

International Development Planning Review

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Liverpool University PressBelda Miquel, S.; Boni Aristizábal, A.; Cuesta Fernandez, I.; Peris Peris, J. (2016) AcknowledgmentsThis study forms part of the research project La movilización social como dimensión estratégica de la educación para el desarrollo: Estudio de experiencias desde una perspectiva N/S en el marco de la ciudadanía global y del enfoque basado en derechos, funded in 2011 by the Spanish Agency of International Cooperation (AECID) in its call for research projects in development studies (11-CAP2-0995).Are Rights-Based Approaches helping (re)politicise development NGOs? Exploring the Spanish case Abstract Over the last decades, the rise of managerialism had contributed to the depoliticisation of practices and discourses of Non-Governmental Development Organisations (NGDOs).From some quarters, the adoption of rights-based approaches (RBAs)

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Disciplining Dissent: NGOs and Community Organizations

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Informal Learning for Citizenship Building in Shared Struggles for Rights: Cases of Political Solidarity Between Colombian and Spanish Organisations

Are rights-based approaches helping (re)politicise development NGOs? Exploring the Spanish case

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