Essays about: "ngoization"

Found 5 essays containing the word ngoization.

  1. 1. "We have other objectives to prioritise" A study of the depoliticisation of foreign-funded NGOs and its impact on the Lebanese anti-establishment movement

    University essay from Lunds universitet/LUMID International Master programme in applied International Development and Management; Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi

    Author : Nadine Frisk; [2022]
    Keywords : NGOization; depoliticisation; professionalisation; NGOs; Lebanon; crisis; anti-establishment movement; neoliberal development regime; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis takes the Lebanese anti-establishment movement as a critical case study of the impact of NGOisation. The debilitating political, economic, and social crises experienced in Lebanon is argued to create an imperative for NGOs to take new forms of action to address and solve the crises. READ MORE

  3. 2. The elephant in the protest march: socially organised denial within climate movements at the UNFCCC

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

    Author : Frances Mills; [2021]
    Keywords : UNFCCC; climate change; environmental activism; social movements; NGOs; cultural hegemony; NGOization; socially organised denial; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : In 2011, Kari Norgaard detailed how socially organised denial facilitates inaction on climate change, even among individuals who express concern. Here, I expand on Norgaard’s theory by exploring how a form of this denial could exist even among those who centre climate activism in their personal or professional lives. READ MORE

  4. 3. Putting all the sustainable development eggs in the private sector basket : An investigation into hegemonic struggle in the Danish development community over increasing private sector-driven development

    University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUS

    Author : Louise Maria Skotte Møller; [2020]
    Keywords : Sustainable Development; Development Finance; Private Sector-Driven Development; Civil Society; Critical Discourse Analysis; Hegemony; Sustainability Science; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : How sustainable development (SD) is envisioned, practiced and financed is a crucial question today. In Denmark, the former government introduced private sector-driven development (PSDD) at the heart of Danish development cooperation. READ MORE

  5. 4. Radically nice : an analysis of the institutionalization and professionalization of Greenpeace Switzerland

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

    Author : Julia Petra Eisenring; [2020]
    Keywords : Human Ecology; Greenpeace Switzerland; Institutionalization of Resistance; NGOization; Environmental History; Political Sociology; Sustainability; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Observing the seeming incapability of nations to sufficiently deal with the borderless threat of climate change, many place their hopes on international environmental movements and organi-zations. However, various reasons drive many social movements to incorporate as NGOs (a phe-nomenon known as NGOization) or lead to existing organizations becoming even more institu-tionalized and professional. READ MORE

  6. 5. Developing differences

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för Mellanösternstudier

    Author : Evie Soli; [2014]
    Keywords : ngoization; NGOs; Qatar; feminism; women s rights; gender; Islamism; volunteering; charity; empowerment; secularism; poverty; Tunisia; development; inclusion; exclusion; marginalization; elites; globalization; colonialism; donors; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This study is based on a ten weeks fieldwork in Tunis during the fall of 2013, where I interviewed seven organizations working on social development in marginalized areas. The thesis examines conditions for social development in Tunisia nearly three years after the uprising in 2011, and specifically how different actors perceive themselves and others. READ MORE