Real World of NGOs: Discourses, Diversity and Development

Ethnography of an NGO that helps development practitioners understand better what NGOs are, and the roles played by local history, language, social ties, and politics in development work. Shows a different picture of NGOs from that prevailing in the literature, which is helpful in understanding not just these bodies, but official development agencies as well.

Published in 2003.

Copublished with Zed Press.