DISP: Rethinking Development's ArchivesMain MenuDeconstructing DevelopmentIntroductionThis collection of works explores the idea and practice of "development", seeking to challenge what has been taught in the Western canon by bringing forth scholarship from the Middle East, mainly written by womenI. Gender"The ungendered body does not exist"II. Modernization"Thinking otherwise" on modernity and progressIII. SovereigntyPracticing culture, community, and self without dominationIV. DignityHolding onto inherent self-worthReview of Imagine Otherwise Podcast "Lila Sharif on the Settler Colonial Politics of Food"AfterwordMusings about the research process and situating this work in a broader agenda to "decolonize the curriculum"Jamila Beesley0366585770914f790635d09a826cc76f2c1be630
NGOs: between buzzwords and social movements
1media/170503-israel-palestine-conflict-cr-0454_02_2e890631b3d9ddde5f35e1f19344bebb.nbcnews-ux-2880-1000-1024x683.jpg2020-05-09T22:01:14-07:00Jamila Beesley0366585770914f790635d09a826cc76f2c1be630373994by Jad Islahimage_header2020-05-10T13:00:41-07:00Jamila Beesley0366585770914f790635d09a826cc76f2c1be630In this piece, Islah warns against the assumed goodness of non-governmental organizations in discourses on development. In the case of Palestine, where NGOs are on the rise to promote “civil society” during national struggle, a process of NGOization has led to the depoliticization of the women’s movement and allowed for Islamist groups to fill the gap. Many consider women’s NGOs in the Arab world to be essential for development and modernization; however, they are often not trusted and perceived as being donor driven and pursuing an elitist Western agenda. Their dominance has led to a power shift from grassroots women organizers to more elite, foreign funded NGOs that pursue their own rights-based agendas yet exclude many women. The rise of NGOs in Palestine has, even if inadvertently, disempowered and delegitimized existing secular grassroots organizing, leading to a growing legitimacy of Islamist groups in the area instead.
Islah, Jad. “NGOs: between buzzwords and social movements”. Development in Practice 17, no.4-5 (2007): 622-9.www.jstor.org/stable/2554826.
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