Real World of NGOs

Dorothea Hilhorst is Lecturer at the Centre for Rural Development, Waginingen Agricultural University, The Netherlands.

• 1. Introduction: The Politics of NGO-ing2. Damning the Dams: Social Movements and NGOs3. The Power of Discourse: NGOs, Gender and National Democratic Politics4. Village Experts and Development Discourse: Progress in a Philippine Igorot Village5. Modelling Development: NGO Room for Manoeuvre6. Whose Reality Counts: Issues of NGO Accountability7. Making Sense of NGOs: in Everyday Office Life8. NGO Leaders: A Social Analysis of Fairly Unusual Human Beings9. Funding Agencies and NGOs: Peeping Behind Paper Realities10. Conclusion: NGO Everyday Politics11. Epilogue: The Politics of Research

'Hilhorst goes beyond an unravelling of simplistic notions about NGOs and brings to life a detailed picture of everyday practices within them.' Emma Crewe, University College London'This story of indigenous women involved in transformation work provides significant insights for social activists and social scientists.'Victoria Tauli Corpuz, Executive Director, TEBTEBBA Foundation (Indigenous Peoples‘ International Centre for Policy Research and Education)'This study of the everyday politics of a Philippine NGO is both entertaining and hard-hitting.‘Norman Long, Wageningen University'This book makes a vital contribution to a critical anthropology of development and the comparative study of everyday politics.' Vicente L. Rafael, Professor, University of Washington