Global Justice? Contesting NGOization: Knowledge Politics and Containment in Antiglobalization Networks

Choudry, Aziz

doi:10.1057/9780230112650_2

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“…The danger in this "neoliberalization of civil society" (Goldman 2005: 270-1) is that NGOs come to serve as gatekeepers for national and global governance, acting "as brakes on more radical and exceptional ideas emanating from the developing world" (Bob 2005: 194). On this interpretation, the role NGOs, including potentially transnational alternative policy groups, play as "intermediaries" (Choudry 2010) may have more to do with maintaining the hegemonic bloc than with constructing a counter-hegemonic alternative.…”

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Embedding Post-Capitalist Alternatives: The Global Network of Alternative Knowledge Production

Carroll

Sapinski

2013

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Embedding Post-Capitalist Alternatives: The Global Network of Alternative Knowledge Production

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2013

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“…First, the formal institutions and legislation may not recognise all urban dwellers as citizens for whom they are responsible and who are entitled to rights and justice. Indeed, 'NGOisation'-the embeddedness of NGOs in national governance structures and the co-optation of civil society organising under issue-specific NGOs-has been on the rise (Hearn, 1998;Stubbs, 2007;Choudry, 2010). Second, resilience initiatives in precarious settlements are likely to be defined by a poorly coordinated mix of organisations and agencies that are detached from the affected communities, with NGOs playing a prominent role (MacKinnon and Derickson, 2012;Miles, Green, and Svekla, 2012).…”

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The dual discourse of urban resilience: robust city and self‐organised neighbourhoods

Meriläinen

2019

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Resilience has become a dominant disaster governance discourse. It has been criticised for insufficiently addressing systemic vulnerabilities while urging the vulnerable to self-organise. The urban resilience discourse involves a particular disconnect: it evokes 'robustness' and unaffectedness at the city scale on the one hand, and self-organisation of disaster-affected people and neighbourhoods on the other. This paper explains and illustrates the dual discourse through a case study on the reconstruction of informal and low-income settlements in the aftermath of the fire in Valparaíso, Chile, in 2014, focusing on the communication contents of two non-governmental organisations (NGOs). These NGOs deployed the discourse differently, yet both called for affected neighbourhoods to build a more robust city through self-organisation, and both suggested their work as the missing link between self-organisation and robustness. A danger in deploying the dual discourse is that it requires people who live in informal and low-income settlements to earn their right to the robust city through 'better' self-organisation based on fragmented visions.

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“…NGOization also promotes adoption of corporate organizational models which seek legitimacy in the eyes of funders instead of from the movement base (Choudry and Kapoor, 2010: 6;Choudry, 2010;INCITE!, 2007). In the NGOization narrative, as social movements become NGOs they carve niches for themselves in a global division of labor that reinforces hegemony by restraining (rather than fostering) the critical ideas that emanate from the "base" or the developing world (Guilhot, 2007: 473;Bob, 2005: 194).…”

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Transnational Alternative Policy Groups in Global Civil Society: Enablers of Post-Capitalist Alternatives or Carriers of NGOization?

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Sapinski

2015

Critical Sociology

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Since the 1970s, transnational alternative policy groups (TAPGs) have generated visions and strategies pointing to alternatives to capitalist globalization. However, TAPGs are also embedded in networks of intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) and foundations, and may thus be subject to NGOization. This paper examines two bodies of data relevant to this issue: (1) network data that highlight TAPGs' links to major sources of funds as well as key IGOs; (2) reflections of TAPG protagonists gleaned from in-depth interviews conducted at these groups. While our network analysis is consistent with the NGOization narrative, and while our participants offered many narratives of their own in line with it, they also provided more nuanced accounts that begin to specify the contingencies mediating between, on the one hand, resort to formal organization and to working with IGOs and foundations, and on the other hand, descent into hegemonic incorporation. In a neoliberal political-economic environment, the future of counter-hegemonic politics hinges partly on our identifying how 'preventative measures' can be brought to bear on processes of NGOization.

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Global Justice? Contesting NGOization: Knowledge Politics and Containment in Antiglobalization Networks

Cited by 41 publications

References 10 publications

Embedding Post-Capitalist Alternatives: The Global Network of Alternative Knowledge Production

Embedding Post-Capitalist Alternatives: The Global Network of Alternative Knowledge Production

The dual discourse of urban resilience: robust city and self‐organised neighbourhoods

Transnational Alternative Policy Groups in Global Civil Society: Enablers of Post-Capitalist Alternatives or Carriers of NGOization?

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