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Silences in NGO Discourse

Author : Issa G. Shivji
Publisher : Fahamu/Pambazuka
ISBN 13 : 0954563751
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (545 download)

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Download or read book Silences in NGO Discourse written by Issa G. Shivji and published by Fahamu/Pambazuka. This book was released on 2007-06-30 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most articulate critics of the destructive effects of neoliberal policies in Africa, and in particular of the ways in which they have eroded the gains of independence, Issa Shivji shows in two extensive essays in this book that the role of NGOs in Africa cannot be understood without placing them in their political and historical context. As structural adjustment programs were imposed across Africa in the 1980s and 1990s, the international financial institutions and development agencies began giving money to NGOs for programs to minimize the more glaring inequalities perpetuated by their policies. As a result, NGOs have flourished--and played an unwitting role in consolidating the neoliberal hegemony in Africa. Shivji argues that if social policy is to be determined by citizens rather than the donors, African NGOs must become catalysts for change rather than the catechists of aid that they are today.

The Silences in the NGO Discourse

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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (137 download)

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Download or read book The Silences in the NGO Discourse written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I locate the rise, the prominence and the privileging of the NGO sector in the womb of the neo-liberal offensive whose aim is as much ideological as economic and political. [...] Colonies became the sites of generating surplus while metropoles were the sites of accumulation, resulting in the development of the centres and the underdevelopment of the peripheries. [...] The imperial project and its succours The neo-liberal offensive On the heels of the defeat of the National Project came the imperialist offen- sive to destroy and bury it, which, by definition, is the immanent dream of imperialism. [...] The 'poor', the diseased, the disabled, the AIDS-infected, the ignorant, the marginalised, in short the 'people', are not part of the development equation, since develop- 3. [...] Shivji.pmd 36 10/07/2007, 11:27 Shivji: The Silences in the NGO Discourse 37 NGOs or the so-called 'Third Sector' At the inception of the neo-liberal offensive in the early 1980s, the rise and role of NGOs was explained and justified within the conceptual framework of the problematic of civil society.

Breaking the Silence on the Role of Ngos in Africa

Author : Issa Shivji
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781990263675
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (636 download)

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Download or read book Breaking the Silence on the Role of Ngos in Africa written by Issa Shivji and published by . This book was released on 2023-03-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Members of the Organic Intellectuals Network are active organizers in the struggle to achieve social justice. They have experienced the contradictions of the NGO discourse and, just like others before them, have found themselves in the struggle versus survival dilemma. To get a clear picture of our contemporary struggles and the despair brought about by NGOs operating in the proletarian movement, comrades decided to reflect, study, and analyze Prof. Issa Shivji's book Silences in NGO Discourse: The Role and Future of NGOs in Africa. For the authors, these analyses and reflections are based on personal experiences in their day-to-day organizing. In summarizing the authors' observations regarding the impacts of NGOs in organizing, this book calls into question the fundamental question, 'why do NGOs exist?' To answer this question, the authors provide a historical chronology of the resistance in Kenya, Zimbabwe and the rest of Africa, relating those to the subjective factors in existence at every period. Through this, a scientific relationship can be drawn between social movements and NGOs in our current epoch. From their experiences with NGOs, the authors, representing grassroots social movements, highlight the dangers associated with donor funding. Often, donor funding ends abruptly after making people dependent on them, creating severe strain on grassroots organizations. The more one engages with NGOs, the softer one becomes to critique NGOs, particularly in highlighting their relationship to imperialism. Further, NGOs usually help in driving reforms. However, they play no part in revolutionary work. As a result, they merely preserve the present order and help exacerbate the frustrations arising from massive inequality in our society. In the long run, NGOs play a critical role in stifling the development and independence of grassroots social movements. This publication also includes two previously published essays by Prof Issa G Shivji, Silences in NGO Discourse: The Role and Future of NGOs in Africa, and Reflections on NGOs in Tanzania: What We Are, What We Are Not and What We Ought To Be

NGO Discourse

Author : Ashutosh Kumar Shukla
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788181162168
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (621 download)

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Download or read book NGO Discourse written by Ashutosh Kumar Shukla and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Exploring Silence and Absence in Discourse

Author : Melani Schröter
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319645803
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (196 download)

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Download or read book Exploring Silence and Absence in Discourse written by Melani Schröter and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-12-18 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book fills a significant gap in the field by addressing the topic of absence in discourse. It presents a range of proposals as to how we can identify and analyse what is absent, and promotes the empirical study of absence and silence in discourse. The authors argue that these phenomena should hold a more central position in the field of discourse, and discuss these two topics at length in this innovative edited collection. It will appeal to students and scholars interested in discourse analysis and critical discourse analysis.

African Thoughts on Colonial and Neo-Colonial Worlds

Author : Anaïs Angelo
Publisher : Neofelis Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3958080839
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book African Thoughts on Colonial and Neo-Colonial Worlds written by Anaïs Angelo and published by Neofelis Verlag. This book was released on 2015-10-16 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows the many facets of African engagements with the world. It starts from the premise that current global asymmetries ascribing Africa to a marginalized position are the effects of colonial and imperial pasts still lingering on. The decolonization process of the post-war structure which privileges the West in both political and economic terms. While new dependencies emerged, several old bonds were maintained and continue to influence African affairs quite strikingly. It is appropriate, then, to call these continued unequal relations between Africa and the West frankly 'neo-colonial'. This designation applies all the more as the post-colonial states of Africa inherited a complex legacy of foreign rule – colonial frontiers, colonial languages, colonial infrastructure and authoritarian institutions, as well as the social intricacies and imbalances so characteristic of the 'colonial situation'. The contributions to this volume look at various aspects of these complex processes from intellectual history perspectives. The topics dealt with are manifold. Contributions deliberately attack key themes, ideas and discourses of an intellectual history of Africa ('state', 'modernity', 'development', 'dependency', 'art', etc.), and introduce important engaged public intellectuals from Africa and the African diaspora. What is Africa, and how is she related to the rest of the world? How can she overcome her internal problems and her external dependencies? – These are perennial questions critically tackled by Africans throughout the 20th century. Dealing with various cases looked at from a variety of perspectives, the contributions to this book offer original insights into the intellectual history of Africa.

Post-Backlash Human Rights Law

Author : Sanja Dragić
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004514791
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Post-Backlash Human Rights Law written by Sanja Dragić and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-10-24 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Post-Backlash Human Rights Law explores a battle of narratives before the emergence of “post-backlash human rights law” – rules generated by the international human rights community and opposing states in reaction to the backlash.

Realising Socio-Economic Rights of Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Africa

Author : Ebenezer Durojaye
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031165489
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Realising Socio-Economic Rights of Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Africa written by Ebenezer Durojaye and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-10-31 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the socio-economic rights challenges of refugees and asylum seekers in Africa. It seeks to fill a major gap in the literature by providing a nuanced discussion of the barriers to the realisation of the socio-economic rights of refugees and asylum seekers in Africa. It equally aims to provide some concrete recommendations to African governments towards the realisation of the socio-economic rights of refugees and asylum seekers. With the aid of lessons from selected African countries, this book highlights the gaps, challenges and good practices regarding the realisation of the socio-economic rights of refugees and asylum seekers in the region. The book will be useful to researchers, students, academicians, policymakers, and international organisations or institutions interested in advancing the rights of refugees and asylum seekers.

Gender, Violence and Security

Author : Laura Shepherd
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1848136811
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book Gender, Violence and Security written by Laura Shepherd and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do understandings of the relationships between gender, violence, security and the international inform policy and practice in which these notions are central? What are the practical implications of basing policy on problematic discourses? In this highly original poststructural feminist critique, the author maps the discursive terrains of institutions, both NGOs and the UN, which formulate and implement resolutions and guides of practice that affect gender issues in the context of international policy practices. The author investigates UN Security Council Resolution 1325, passed in 2000 to address gender issues in conflict areas, in order to examine the discursive construction of security policy that takes gender seriously. In doing so, she argues that language is not merely descriptive of social/political reality but rather constitutive of it. Moving from concept to discourse, and in turn to practice, the author analyses the ways in which the resolution's discursive construction had an enormous influence over the practicalities of its implementation, and how the resulting tensions and inconsistencies in its construction contributed to its failures. The book argues for a re-conceptualisation of gendered violence in conjunction with security, in order to avoid partial and highly problematic understandings of their practical relationship. Drawing together theoretical work on discourses of gender violence and international security, sexualised violence in war, gender and peace processes, and the domestic-international dichotomy with her own rigorous empirical investigation, the author develops a compelling discourse-theoretical analysis that promises to have far-reaching impact in both academic and policy environments.

Africa since Decolonization

Author : Martin Welz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108474888
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Africa since Decolonization written by Martin Welz and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-21 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to African history and politics since decolonization, emphasising the political, economic and socio-economic diversity of the continent.

Necessary Noise

Author : Chérie Rivers Ndaliko
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190499605
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Necessary Noise written by Chérie Rivers Ndaliko and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-28 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1997, the war in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo has taken more than 6 million lives and shapes the daily existence of the nation's residents. While the DRC is often portrayed in international media as an unproductive failed state, the Congolese have turned increasingly to art-making to express their experience to external eyes. Author Chérie Rivers Ndaliko argues that cultural activism and the enthusiasm to produce art exists in Congo as a remedy for the social ills of war and as a way to communicate a positive vision of the country. Ndaliko introduces a memorable cast of artists, activists, and ordinary people from the North-Kivu province, whose artistic and cultural interventions are routinely excluded from global debates that prioritize economics, politics, and development as the basis of policy decision about Congo. Rivers also shows how art has been mobilized by external humanitarian and charitable organizations, becoming the vehicle through which to inflict new kinds of imperial domination. Written by a scholar and activist in the center of the current public policy debate, Necessary Noise examines the uneasy balance of accomplishing change through art against the unsteady background of war. At the heart of this book is the Yole!Africa cultural center, which is the oldest independent cultural center in the east of Congo. Established in the aftermath of volcano Nyiragongo's 2002 eruption and sustained through a series of armed conflicts, the cultural activities organized by Yole!Africa have shaped a generation of Congolese youth into socially and politically engaged citizens. By juxtaposing intimate ethnographic, aesthetic, and theoretical analyses of this thriving local initiative with case studies that expose the often destructive underbelly of charitable action, Necessary Noise introduces into heated international debates on aid and sustainable development a compelling case for the necessity of arts and culture in negotiating sustained peace. Through vivid descriptions of a community of young people transforming their lives through art, Ndaliko humanizes a dire humanitarian disaster. In so doing, she invites readers to reflect on the urgent choices we must navigate as globally responsible citizens. The only study of music or film culture in the east of Congo, Necessary Noise raises an impassioned and vibrantly interdisciplinary voice that speaks to the theory and practice of socially engaged scholarship.

Claiming Agency

Author : Halima Mahomed
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 1779223021
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (792 download)

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Download or read book Claiming Agency written by Halima Mahomed and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2016-10-06 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Claiming Agency. Reflecting on TrustAfricas First Decade takes an in-depth look at an African-led foundation that set out to do things differently. Founded in 2006, when solutions to Africas challenges were often developed outside its borders, TrustAfrica sought to practice a kind of philanthropy that both benefits Africans and actively supports their agency. Now, at the ten-year mark, the book asks, what does this kind of philanthropy make a difference? If so, how? What are its unique ways of working? The answers are found in chapters that reflect on how TrustAfrica and its partners advanced a range of issues - from womens rights, small-holder agriculture, and democratic reform in Liberia and Zimbabwe to international criminal justice and illicit financial flows. In a clear-eyed look at money and power, the authors observe that donor funds all too often come with strings that constrict African agency - and recommend ways in which donors from Africa and the global north can foster independent action and strengthen movements for change.

Human Rights Education and the Politics of Knowledge

Author : Joanne Coysh
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317669606
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book Human Rights Education and the Politics of Knowledge written by Joanne Coysh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-02-24 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Around the world there are a myriad of NGOs using human rights education (HRE) as a tool of community empowerment with the firm belief that it will help people improve their lives. One way of understanding these processes is that they translate universal human rights speak using messages and symbols which make them relevant to people’s daily lives and culturally resonant. However, an alternative more radical perspective is that these processes should engage individuals in modes of critical inquiry into the ways that that existing power structures maintain the status quo and control not only how we understand and speak about social inequality and injustice, but also act on it. This book is a critical inquiry into the production, distribution and consumption of HRE and how the discourse is constructed historically, socially and politically through global institutions and local NGO practice. The book begins with the premise that HRE is composed of theories of human rights and education, both of which are complex and multifaceted. However, the book demonstrates how over time a dominant discourse of HRE, constructed by the United Nations institutional framework, has come to prominence and the ways it is reproduced and reinforced through the practice of intermediary NGOs engaged in HRE activities with community groups. Drawing on socio-legal scholarship it offers a new theoretical and political framework for addressing how human rights, pedagogy, knowledge and power can be analysed between the global and local by connecting the critical, but well-trodden, theories of human rights to insights on critical pedagogy. It uses critical discourse analysis and ethnographic research to investigate the practice of NGOs engaged in HRE using contextual evidence and findings from fieldwork with NGOs and communities in Tanzania.

Expose, Oppose, Propose

Author : William K. Carroll
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1783606061
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (836 download)

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Download or read book Expose, Oppose, Propose written by William K. Carroll and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2016-07-15 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neoliberal capitalism positions us all as consumers in a hypermarket where money talks. For the majority of people around the globe, this translates as precarity and immiseration. But how can we break from this dominant ideological framework? Expose, Oppose, Propose details how, since the mid 1970s, transnational alternative policy groups (TAPGs) have functioned as think tanks of a different sort, generating resources for a globalization from below in dialogue with the critical social movements that are protagonists for global justice. Based on two years of intensive research, William Carroll not only provides a detailed examination of a variety of TAPGs – showing how each group is distinctive and autonomous in its vision, practical priorities, and ways of producing and mobilizing alternative knowledge – but also reveals how TAPGs form a master frame that advocates and envisages global justice and ecological wellbeing.

Handbook of Research on NGOs

Author : Aynsley Kellow
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1785361686
Total Pages : 487 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Research on NGOs written by Aynsley Kellow and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2018-09-28 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides a critical overview of research on Non-governmental Organisations (NGOs). While it notes that the definition of NGOs is contested, and can include both business and national groups, it focuses primarily on international NGOs engaged with human rights, social and environmental concerns, and aid and development issues. With contributions by Peter Willetts, Tom Davies, Bob Reinalda and other leading scholars, it provides a series of critical essays on both general aspects of NGOs and significant issues of particular concern.

Society and Education

Author : Stavros Moutsios
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315519712
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (155 download)

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Download or read book Society and Education written by Stavros Moutsios and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-20 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Society and Education explores the relation of society to education in Europe, as well as its comparative perspective towards overseas societies and their institutions. It is an enquiry into the social-historical institution of education and cross-cultural studies in Europe. Elaborating on the Castoriadian ontology, the book delves into the magma of social imaginary significations that characterise and associate pivotal epochs of the continent’s history, Classical Greece and Modernity, and exemplifies their incarnation in educational systems and in the formation of the European and, in general, the Western comparative gaze. With a particular focus on our epoch, Postmodernity and globalisation, the study traces the pervasive dominance of capitalist significations in social institutions, forms, and activities, as well as in education and the way it is compared across countries. Nevertheless, as Moutsios suggests, the European tradition, notwithstanding its ideological usage by much of social sciences, contains an indissoluble critical and self-reflective dimension, which needs to be sustained and advanced in education and its cross-cultural comparison, perhaps, more than ever before. The book demonstrates the embeddedness of education in its cultural context and should, therefore, be of great interest to academics, researchers and postgraduate students who are involved with comparative education, the sociology and history of education, education policy, and European studies.

The Failure of the International Criminal Court in Africa

Author : Everisto Benyera
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000589722
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Failure of the International Criminal Court in Africa written by Everisto Benyera and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-05-18 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the relationship between the International Criminal Court and Africa (the ICC or the Court), asking why and how the international criminal justice system has so far largely failed the victims of atrocities in Africa. The book explores how the Court degenerated from a very promising multilateral institution to being an instrumentalised, politicised, weaponised institution that ended up with the victims being the greatest losers. Instead of looking at the International Criminal Court as a recent alternative to a prevailing international criminal justice paradigm, this book argues that the Court is a manifestation of the same world order that was established by the Reconquista in 1492. Written from a decolonial perspective, the book particularly draws on evidence from Zimbabwe in order to demonstrate how the International Criminal Court is failing the victims of the four crimes that fall under its jurisdiction. Drawing on the perspectives of victims in particular, this book highlights the damage caused within Africa by the international criminal justice system and argues for a decolonial conception of justice. The book will be of interest to researchers from across African politics, international relations, law and criminal justice.