Doing good? The politics and antipolitics of NGO practices

被引:331
作者
Fisher, WF
机构
[1] Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, Cambridge
关键词
civil society; collective action; development; nongovernmental organizations; globalization;
D O I
10.1146/annurev.anthro.26.1.439
中图分类号
Q98 [人类学];
学科分类号
030303 ;
摘要
This review surveys current literature concerned with the growing numbers, changing functions, and intensifying networks of nongovernmental organizations which have had significant impacts upon globalization, international and national politics, and local lives. Studies of these changes illuminate understandings of translocal flows of ideas, knowledge, funding, and people; shed light on changing relationships among citizenry, associations, and the state; and encourage a reconsideration of connections between the personal and the political. Attention is given to the political implications of discourses about NGOs, the complex micropolitics of these associations, and the importance of situating them as evolving processes within complexes of competing and overlapping practices and discourses.
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页码:439 / 464
页数:26
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