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Introduction: Can NGOs make a difference. The challenge of development alternatives
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NGOs, States and Donors Revisited: Still Too Close for Comfort?
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate how, given their weak roots in civil society and the rising tide of technocracy that has swept through the world of foreign aid, most NGOs remain poorly placed to influence the real drivers of social change and argue that NGOs can take advantage of their traditional strengths to build bridges between grassroots organizations and local and national-level structures and processes, applying their knowledge of local contexts to strengthen their roles in empowerment and social transformation.
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They really love me!: Intimacy in Volunteer Tourism
TL;DR: Based on nine months of ethnographic fieldwork among three non-governmental organizations in northern Thailand, the authors suggests that intimacy overwhelmingly mediates the voluntourism experience for most participants, and this focus on intimacy overshadows the structural inequalities on which the encounter is based, reframes the question of structural inequality as a question of individual morality and perpetuates an apolitical cultural politics of volunteer tourism.
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The Role of NGOs and Civil Society in Development and Poverty Reduction
Nicola Banks,David Hulme +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that, given the non-political arena in which they operate, NGOs have had little participation or impact in tackling the more structurally-entrenched causes and manifestations of poverty, instead effectively depoliticising poverty by treating it as a technical problem that can be solved.
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Some things old, some things new: The spatial representations and politics of change of the peak oil relocalisation movement
TL;DR: The Transition Network as discussed by the authors is a UK-originated relocalization movement that aims to achieve a comprehensive reduction in oil dependency through community-scale initiatives, using addiction metaphors and participatory techniques.
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The Geography of Compassion in Volunteer Tourism
TL;DR: The authors examine the widespread sentiment that Thailand is an ideal starting point for international volunteer tourists who intend to seek out subsequent volunteer opportunities in Africa and highlight the Third World child as the primary object of Western volunteer tourists' benevolence.
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