Against NGOs : a critical perspective on civil society, management, and development / Nidhi Srinivas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Srinivas, Nidhi, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Non-governmental organizations.

Nonprofit organizations.

Management.

Economic development.

Economic assistance.

Civil society.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 343 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2022.

System Details:

Mode of Access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction: Development, Management, and Civil Society

from a Critical Perspective

Colonial Development, Colonial Management

Modernization Theory, Development, Management

Dependency Theory and an Alternative Management

High Management, the Short Reign of Shared Common Sense

The Washington Consensus and Financialization of Management

Moving Past the Washington Consensus

Conclusion: Possibilities of Emancipation.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 29 Jul 2022).

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781108885843 (ebook)

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.