Against NGOs

A Critical Perspective on Civil Society, Management and Development
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-1-108-84038-5
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 300 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 608 g

What would development look like if its practitioners and scholars were 'against NGOs,' challenging common sense about them? This book presents a critical perspective on NGOs, describing how they emerged as key agents of development over time. Through an interpretative history based on Gramscian concepts it shows how civil society organizations were gradually enlisted in development as non-state technocratic actors. The book argues that management studies and development studies emerged as commonsensical explanations for capitalist crises. Each offered complementary solutions to balance the needs of capital and society, in particular historical circumstances. These solutions also situated civil society as agents of development and vectors of management. Against NGOs fills a gap within the literature of management and development studies through its original discussion of their historical interconnections and shared themes. The book raises provocative questions on what forms of knowledge-politics can respond productively to the crises of our contemporary moment.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Srinivas, Nidhi

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Entwicklungspolitik, Nord-Süd Beziehungen
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Unternehmensorganisation & Entwicklungsstrategien
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Organisationstheorie, Organisationssoziologie, Organisationspsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Twinning Development and Management from a Critical Perspective; 2. Colonial Development and Early Management; 3. Modernization Theory and Modernist Management; 4. Dependency Theory and an Alternative Technocracy; 5. High Management; 6. The Washington Consensus and Financialization; 7. Moving past the Washington Consensus; 8. Conclusion: Possibilities of Emancipation.

Über Autor(innen)

Srinivas, Nidhi
Nidhi Srinivas studies global intersections of management studies, philosophy, and justice in terms of critique, efficacy, and empowerment. He has researched a variety of civil society organizations and their management settings, including in India, Brazil, Mexico, and China. He is Associate Professor of Management at The New School, New York.