NonGovernmental Politics

This collection of essays, profiles, and interviews is a survey of the expanding domain of nongovernmental activism. It proposes to "attest to the diversity of nongovernmental politics but also to the common predicaments faced by its practitioners - predicaments regarding their legitimacy, their strategy, and their grievances. Nongovernmental Politics first examines the various motives - such as defending rights, providing care, and facilitating access - which nongovernmental activists invoke to justify and specify their modes of intervention. The volume then successively analyses the ways in which nongovernmental agencies construct their credibility and publicize their cause, and explores some sites, such as borders and disaster zones, which have a particular significance for nongovernmental work. Finally, Nongovernmental Politics focuses on the competing designs - wresting civil society from the control of an unaccountable state, shaking the global dominance of corporate interests, hastening the return of the Savior - that currently preside over the endeavors of nongovernmental activists."

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