Reimagining Civil Society Collaborations In Development

Author : Margit van Wessel,Tiina Kontinen,Justice Nyigmah Bawole
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 100324100X

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"At a time when uneven power dynamics are high on development actors' agenda, this book will be an important contribution to researchers and practitioners working on innovation in development and civil society. While there is much discussion of localization, decolonization and 'shifting power' in civil society collaborations in development, the debate thus far centers on the aid system. This book directs attention to CSOs as drivers of development in various contexts that we refer to as the Global South. This book take a transformative stance, reimagining roles, relations and processes. It does so from five complementary angles: 1 Southern CSOs reclaiming the lead, 2 displacement of the North-South dyad, 3 Southern-centred questions, 4 new roles for Northern actors, and 5 new starting points for collaboration. The book relativizes international collaboration, asking INGOs, Northern CSOs, and their donors to follow Southern CSOs' leads, recognizing their contextually geared perspectives, agendas, resources, capacities, and ways of working. Based in 19 empirically grounded chapters, the book also offers an agenda for further research, design, and experimentation. Emphasizing the need to 'Start from the South' this book thus re-imagines and re-centers Civil Society collaborations in development, offering Southern-centred ways of understanding and developing relations, roles, and processes, in theory and practice"--

Author : Margit van Wessel,Tiina Kontinen,Justice Nyigmah Bawole
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000843330

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Reimagining Civil Society Collaborations in Development by Margit van Wessel,Tiina Kontinen,Justice Nyigmah Bawole Pdf

At a time when uneven power dynamics are high on development actors’ agenda, this book will be an important contribution to researchers and practitioners working on innovation in development and civil society. While there is much discussion of localization, decolonization and ‘shifting power’ in civil society collaborations in development, the debate thus far centers on the aid system. This book directs attention to CSOs as drivers of development in various contexts that we refer to as the Global South. This book take a transformative stance, reimagining roles, relations and processes. It does so from five complementary angles: (1) Southern CSOs reclaiming the lead, 2) displacement of the North–South dyad, (3) Southern-centred questions, (4) new roles for Northern actors, and (5) new starting points for collaboration. The book relativizes international collaboration, asking INGOs, Northern CSOs, and their donors to follow Southern CSOs’ leads, recognizing their contextually geared perspectives, agendas, resources, capacities, and ways of working. Based in 19 empirically grounded chapters, the book also offers an agenda for further research, design, and experimentation. Emphasizing the need to ‘Start from the South’ this book thus re-imagines and re-centers Civil Society collaborations in development, offering Southern-centred ways of understanding and developing relations, roles, and processes, in theory and practice. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license. Funded by Wageningen University.

Author : Biekart, Kees,Fowler, Alan
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781800378155

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A Research Agenda for Civil Society by Biekart, Kees,Fowler, Alan Pdf

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. Mapping a wide range of civil society research perspectives, this pioneering Research Agenda offers a rich and clear insight for academics and practitioners hoping to embark on future civil society research. Kees Biekart and Alan Fowler bring together over 20 expert contributions from researchers across the globe who are actively engaged in testing the old and generating new knowledge about civil society.

Author : Matthew Clarke,Xinyu (Andy) Zhao
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 661 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781800372122

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Elgar Encyclopedia of Development by Matthew Clarke,Xinyu (Andy) Zhao Pdf

The Elgar Encyclopedia of Development is a ground-breaking resource that provides a starting point for those wishing to grasp how and why development occurs, while also providing further expansion appropriate for more experienced academics.

Author : Kees Biekart,Tiina Kontinen,Marianne Millstein
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783031233050

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Civil Society Responses to Changing Civic Spaces by Kees Biekart,Tiina Kontinen,Marianne Millstein Pdf

This open access book contributes to thriving debates in academic as well as professional circles about the role of civil society in shrinking civic spaces, rising authoritarianism and right-wing populism, conflicts, fragile states, and most lately, the global COVID-19 pandemic. This is one of the first books to address the implications of changing civic spaces for civil society organizations worldwide. It offers a unique overview of how social movements and civil society groups in very different settings are responding to state-imposed restrictions of basic civic freedoms. The authors are all experts in the field, and their analyses are based on original and onsite research. This unique book also contributes to a better understanding of the conceptualizations and practices of civil society. It is of keen interest to academic scholars, students, civil society practitioners, and policy makers in the field of international development research and civil society action.

Author : Hanne Haaland,Sara Kinsbergen,Lau Schulpen,Hege Wallevik
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2023-03-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000845051

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The Rise of Small-Scale Development Organisations by Hanne Haaland,Sara Kinsbergen,Lau Schulpen,Hege Wallevik Pdf

This edited volume discusses the rise, positioning and role of small-scale, voluntary development organisations in the Global North. This book presents and reflects upon unique data and analyses of a growing global community of researchers involved in this field of study located in a diverse set of countries in the Global North and South. This book presents a multi-cited perspective on this alternative development actor. The first part of the book starts from a northern perspective and from an analysis of how and why citizens actively engage in the field of international development. Starting from this understanding of this particular development actor, the second part will delve into the role of these actors in the Global South, particularly related to topics such as partnerships, embeddedness, legitimacy, accountability, exit strategies, sustainability and solidarity, all themes central to debates in the field of development. Through examples from different countries in the Global South, part two explores these themes from different standpoints and thus also provides the reader with thick descriptions.

Author : Bobby Smith
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031557255

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Theatre and Global Development by Bobby Smith Pdf

Author : Toon van Meijl,Frans Wijsen
Publisher : Radboud University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789493296053

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Engaged Scholarship and Emancipation by Toon van Meijl,Frans Wijsen Pdf

This collective volume celebrates that 75 years ago the foundation was laid for the Department of Anthropology and Development Studies at Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands. The contributions to this volume exemplify the evolution of the academic disciplines of anthropology and development studies at Radboud University in the course of its history. Radboud University itself celebrates its centenary in the year 2023. Originally this university was established for the emancipation of the Catholic population in the Netherlands. Emancipation continues to be a distinctive feature of the university’s policy, also of the scholarship as it is conducted in the department of anthropology and development studies. As emancipation and engagement are key concepts in the disciplines of anthropology and development studies at Radboud University, former and current staff members focus their contributions to this anniversary volume on the various meanings of the concepts of emancipation and engagement in their academic practices. They reflect on changes in the meaning of engaged scholarship in their own work, especially in relation to emancipatory issues. The outcome is a rich variety of contributions centering on the shifting tension between engagement and scholarship in the disciplines of anthropology and development studies. Thus, they not only exemplify the evolution of these academic disciplines at Radboud University, but also offer a topical and innovative perspective on a highly dynamic field.

Author : Jude Howell,Jenny Pearce
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 158826095X

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Civil Society & Development by Jude Howell,Jenny Pearce Pdf

Setting out to explore critically the way civil society has entered development thinking, policy and practice as a paradigmatic concept of the 21st century, Howell (development studies, U. of Sussex) and Pearce (Latin American politics, U. of Bradford) trace the historical path leading to the encounter between the ideas of development and civil society in the late 1980s and how donors have translated these into development policy an programs. They find that there are competing normative visions, which have deep roots in Western European political thought, about the role of civil society in relation to the state and market both among donors and within the societies where donors are operating. This leads to donors playing a major role in shaping the character of service provision. They also argue that their study exposes the hitherto unexplored power of the market, as opposed to solely the state, to distort donor programs. c. Book News Inc.

Author : Europa Publications
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 2590 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-27
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781003806349

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The Europa International Foundation Directory 2023 by Europa Publications Pdf

This fully revised directory of international foundations, trusts, charitable and grantmaking NGOs and other similar non-profit institutions provides a comprehensive picture of foundation activity on a worldwide scale. Now in its 32nd edition, The Europa International Foundation Directory includes: Information on some 2,700 organizations, organized by country or territory, including details of funding priorities and projects, geographical area of activity, principal staff and contact details Details of co-ordinating bodies and centres that assist foundations, grantmaking organizations and other NGOs Bibliography Comprehensive index section This new edition has been revised and expanded to include the most comprehensive and up-to-date information on this growing sector.

Author : David Lewis,Nazneen Kanji
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781134051762

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Non-Governmental Organizations and Development by David Lewis,Nazneen Kanji Pdf

Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are high profile actors in the field of international development, both as providers of services to vulnerable individuals and communities and as campaigning policy advocates. This book provides a critical introduction to the wide-ranging topic of NGOs and development. Written by two authors with more than twenty years experience of research and practice in the field, the book combines a critical overview of the main research literature with a set of up-to-date theoretical and practical insights drawn from experience in Asia, Europe, Africa and elsewhere. It highlights the importance of NGOs in development, but it also engages fully with the criticisms that the increased profile of NGOs in development now attracts. Non-Governmental Organizations and Development begins with a discussion of the wide diversity of NGOs and their roles, and locates their recent rise to prominence within broader histories of struggle as well as within the ideological context of neo-liberalism. It then moves on to analyze how interest in NGOs has both reflected and informed wider theoretical trends and debates within development studies, before analyzing NGOs and their practices, using a broad range of short case studies of successful and unsuccessful interventions. David Lewis and Nazneen Kanji then moves on to describe the ways in which NGOs are increasingly important in relation to ideas and debates about ‘civil society’, globalization and the changing ideas and practices of international aid. The book argues that NGOs are now central to development theory and practice and are likely to remain important actors in development in the years to come. In order to appreciate the issues raised by their increasing diversity and complexity, the authors conclude that it is necessary to deploy a historically and theoretically informed perspective. This critical overview will be useful to students of development studies at undergraduate and masters levels, as well as to more general readers and practitioners. The format of the book includes figures, photographs and case studies as well as reader material in the form of summary points and questions. Despite the growing importance of the topic, no single short, up-to-date book exists that sets out the main issues in the form of a clearly written, academically-informed text: until now.

Author : Anders Uhlin,S. Kalm
Publisher : Springer
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137461315

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Civil Society and the Governance of Development by Anders Uhlin,S. Kalm Pdf

This book re-conceptualizes civil society engagement with global governance institutions in the field of development in terms of opposition. With an innovative theoretical framework, it maps and explains opposition strategies through detailed case studies on the EU, the Asian Development Bank, and the Global Forum on Migration and Development.

Author : OECD,North-South Centre of the Council of Europe
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1998-07-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264163393

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Civil Society and International Development by OECD,North-South Centre of the Council of Europe Pdf

Interest in the concept of civil society has undergone a remarkable renaissance in the 1990s. It is currrently seen as a potential tool to overcome some of the main theoretical and political stalemates. But what exactly does the concept of civil ...

Author : Tiina Kontinen,Henri Onodera
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0367738864

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Citizenship, Civil Society and Development by Tiina Kontinen,Henri Onodera Pdf

The book investigates the intersection of citizenship, civil society, and development in today's global world. The multi-disciplinary collection considers the notion of citizenship in connection with the neoliberal development agendas, participation, security discourses and legal environments. The contributions analyse the development-citizenship nexus grounded in empirical work in African, Latin American, European and global contexts. The book opens exciting avenues to reflect on the notion of citizenship and explores the following pertinent questions: Does citizenship matter for development research? Do international development policy and practice promote certain normative registers for how people should make sense of their social relations and, in particular, how they relate to public authorities? What are their responses? Contributors from various academic backgrounds, such as anthropology, law, and political science, affirm the importance of citizenship for the study of contemporary development processes. Chapters provide empirical analysis of the processes of water privatization in Ghana, the promulgation of new 'NGO Law' in Ethiopia, environmental politics in former Yugoslavia, and the global interconnections between the Arab Spring and the Occupy Wall Street movement. The book is relevant for students and scholars of political science and development studies as well as development practitioners globally. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Civil Society.

Author : Palash Kamruzzaman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351625432

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Civil Society in the Global South by Palash Kamruzzaman Pdf

In recent years civil society has been seen as a key route for democracy promotion and solving development ‘problems’ in low-income countries. However, the very concept of civil society is deeply rooted in European traditions and values. In pursuing civil society reform in non-Western countries, many scholars along with well-meaning international agencies and donor organisations fail to account for non-Western values and historical experiences. Civil Society in the Global South seeks to redress this balance by offering diverse accounts of civil society from the global South, authored by scholars and researchers who are reflecting on their observations of civil society in their own countries. The countries studied in the volume range from across Africa, Latin America, Asia and the Middle East to give a rich account of how countries from the global south conceptualise and construct civil society. The book demonstrates how local conditions are often unsuited to the ideal type of civil society as delineated in Western values, for instance in cases where numerous political, racial and ethnic sub-groups are ‘fighting’ for autonomy. By disentangling local contexts of countries from across the global South, this book demonstrates that it is important to view civil society through the lens of local conditions, rather than viewing it as something that needs to be ‘discovered’ or ‘manufactured’ in non-Western societies. Civil Society in the Global South will be particularly useful to high-level students and scholars within development studies, sociology, anthropology, social policy, politics, international relations and human geography.