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Cultures of doing good : anthropologists and NGOs / edited by Amanda Lashaw, Christian Vannier, and Steven Sampson.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: NGOgraphies : ethnographic reflections on NGOsPublisher: Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (vi, 272 pages) : 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780817391539
  • 0817391533
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Cultures of doing good.DDC classification:
  • 361.7 23
LOC classification:
  • JZ4841 .C85 2017eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction : engagements and entanglements in the anthropology of NGOs / Steven Sampson -- Anthropologists' encounters with NGOs : critique, collaboration, and conflict / David Lewis -- NGO fever and donor regimes : Tanzanian feminist activism within landscapes of contradictions / Victoria Bernal -- Habits of the heart : grassroots "revitalization" and state transformation in Serbia / Theodora Vetta -- Reformists and revolutionists : social work NGOs and activist struggles in the Czech Republic / Hana Synkova -- Leveraging supranational civil society : critiquing Czech gender equality policy through academic-NGO collaboration / Karen Kapusta-Pofahl -- Faith development beyond religion : the NGO as site of Islamic reform / Nermeen Mouftah -- Interdependent industries and ethical dilemmas : NGOs and volunteer tourism in Cusco, Peru / Aviva Sinervo -- Rebuilding justice : Jewish philanthropy and the politics of representation in post-Katrina New Orleans / Moshe Kornfeld -- The ethics and politics of NGO-dependent anthropology / Katherine Lemons -- The anthropologist and the conservation NGO : dilemmas of and opportunities for engagement / Amanda Woomer -- Conclusion : a second generation of NGO anthropology / Christian Vannier and Amanda Lashaw.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-261) and index.

Introduction : engagements and entanglements in the anthropology of NGOs / Steven Sampson -- Anthropologists' encounters with NGOs : critique, collaboration, and conflict / David Lewis -- NGO fever and donor regimes : Tanzanian feminist activism within landscapes of contradictions / Victoria Bernal -- Habits of the heart : grassroots "revitalization" and state transformation in Serbia / Theodora Vetta -- Reformists and revolutionists : social work NGOs and activist struggles in the Czech Republic / Hana Synkova -- Leveraging supranational civil society : critiquing Czech gender equality policy through academic-NGO collaboration / Karen Kapusta-Pofahl -- Faith development beyond religion : the NGO as site of Islamic reform / Nermeen Mouftah -- Interdependent industries and ethical dilemmas : NGOs and volunteer tourism in Cusco, Peru / Aviva Sinervo -- Rebuilding justice : Jewish philanthropy and the politics of representation in post-Katrina New Orleans / Moshe Kornfeld -- The ethics and politics of NGO-dependent anthropology / Katherine Lemons -- The anthropologist and the conservation NGO : dilemmas of and opportunities for engagement / Amanda Woomer -- Conclusion : a second generation of NGO anthropology / Christian Vannier and Amanda Lashaw.

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