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Are non-governmental organizations working in development a transnational community?

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  • Janet Gabriel Townsend

    (Department of Geography, University of Durham, UK)

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At the end of this millennium, poor people in low-income economies have lived through a series of extraordinary changes. The latest has been the rise of the transnational community of workers in NGDOs (non-governmental 'development' organizations), a community expressing shared values, language and practices which differ from those of local everyday life, from Orissa to Oxfordshire. NGDOs are not new but have burgeoned beyond recognition. For a Mexican peasant, NGDOs may be a more relevant, more immediate reality than NAFTA (the North American Free Trade Area). One thread of ideas in the community treats of women's self-empowerment. Very similar discussions of 'autonomy' have been witnessed among speakers of Mixe in Mexico and Telegu in India. How may we understand a community of ideas which produces such strikingly parallel local talk in such distant and dissimilar locales? More important, how may these very speakers best understand it? This paper will set what we, as academics, know about the community against selected, positive, rice-roots responses to one feminist thread within it. Copyright © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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  • Janet Gabriel Townsend, 1999. "Are non-governmental organizations working in development a transnational community?," Journal of International Development, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 11(4), pages 613-623.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:jintdv:v:11:y:1999:i:4:p:613-623
    DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1328(199906)11:4<613::AID-JID598>3.0.CO;2-E
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    1. Mokbul Morshed Ahmad & Janet Gabriel Townsend, 1998. "Changing fortunes in anti-poverty programmes in Bangladesh," Journal of International Development, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 10(4), pages 427-438.
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    1. Janet G. Townsend & Gina Porter & Emma Mawdsley, 2002. "The role of the transnational community of non-government organizations: governance or poverty reduction?," Journal of International Development, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 14(6), pages 829-839.
    2. Diana Mitlin & University of Manchester & Sam Hickey & University of Manchester & Anthony Bebbington & University of Manchester, 2006. "Reclaiming development? NGOs and the challenge of alternatives," Economics Series Working Papers GPRG-WPS-043, University of Oxford, Department of Economics.
    3. Roberts, Susan M. & Jones III, John Paul & Frohling, Oliver, 2005. "NGOs and the globalization of managerialism: A research framework," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 33(11), pages 1845-1864, November.
    4. Mitlin, Diana & Hickey, Sam & Bebbington, Anthony, 2007. "Reclaiming Development? NGOs and the Challenge of Alternatives," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 35(10), pages 1699-1720, October.

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