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Catherine Urquhart

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Living with Paradox in International Development: An Extended Case Study of an International NGO

Författare

  • Helen Wadham
  • Cathy Urquhart
  • Richard Warren

Summary, in English

International non-governmental organisations (NGOs) combine practical and advocacy efforts to address global challenges like poverty and climate change. However, NGOs are embedded within the same global system they seek to challenge. This article explore the tensions this raises from the vantage point of one particular organisation (Concern Universal). Drawing on a paradox perspective, we find that despite the structural constraints, NGO actors and the poor people they work alongside are active and well-informed participants in the development process. However, a focus on the communicative labour of NGOs uncovers the power relations at play in that work. Nonetheless, our paper challenges ideas about development as ‘us versus them’. Rather, by focusing our analysis on the relationships between NGO actors and multiple others, we show how the organisation is effectively constituted by these and other relationships.

Publiceringsår

2019-04-05

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

1263-1286

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

European Journal of Development Research

Volym

31

Issue

5

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

SAGE Publications

Ämne

  • Social Sciences Interdisciplinary

Nyckelord

  • Contradiction
  • Development
  • Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs)
  • Paradox
  • Partnership

Aktiv

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1743-9728