Cover -- About the Editors -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- References -- Introduction NGOization: Complicity, Contradictions and Prospects -- A non-typology and short recent history of NGOs -- Grappling with NGOization -- NGOs as agents of capitalist colonization of material space -- The professionalization of dissent and knowledge colonization for capital -- Prospects: Looking ahead -- References -- 1 Saving Biodiversity, for Whom and for What? Conservation NGOs, Complicity, Colonialism and Conquest in an Era of Capitalist Globalization -- Introduction -- Intellectual property rights and the genetic goldrush -- Not seeing the forest for the trees: Silences and blinkers in environmental NGO discourse -- Conservation International: Leading brand of green imperialism? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 2 Social Action and NGOization in Contexts of Development Dispossession in Rural India: Explorations into the Un-civility of Civil Society -- Introduction -- The anatomy of NGOization and the un-civility of civil society in rural contexts of development dispossession -- From NGOization to social action: Prospects, possibilities and concluding reflections -- Table 2.1: Lok Adhikar Manch (LAM) -- Notes -- References -- 3 NGOs, Indigenous Peoples and the United Nations -- Introduction -- Indigenous Nations: Inherent rights -- Colonization -- United Nations -- Non-governmental organizations -- 1977 NGO conference -- 1981 NGO conference -- Working Group on Indigenous Peoples (WGIP) -- Declaration drafting by the WGIP -- Intersessional Working Groups -- Concluding remarks -- Appendix 3.1 -- Appendix 3.2 -- Notes -- References -- 4 From Radical Movement to Conservative NGO and Back Again? A Case Study of the Democratic Left Front in South Africa -- Politics and interventions in grassroots struggles in South Africa.

The DLF's relationship to grassroots organizations -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 5 Philippine NGOs: Defusing Dissent, Spurring Change -- Historical sketch of Philippine NGOs -- NGOs and civil society in the Philippines today -- Neoliberal governance and state-NGO ties -- NGOization today -- Philippine neocolonialism and underdevelopment -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 6 Disaster Relief, NGO-led Humanitarianism and the Reconfiguration of Spatial Relations in Tamil Nadu -- NGOs in post-tsunami reconstruction -- World Vision and 'service delivery' -- Artisanal fishers and SNEHA: A background -- Post-tsunami engagements -- Discussion -- Notes -- References -- 7 Seven Theses on Neobalkanism and NGOization in Transitional Serbia -- The New Balkanism -- Empire lite: Military humanitarianism -- Swords of empire: NGOization, democracy promotion and the new balkanism -- The dance of neoliberalism and nationalism -- Critiques of NGOization by activists and organizers in Serbia -- The remnants of transition: Workers, displaced peoples, and privatization -- Emergent potentialities, incipient struggles -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- 8 Peace-building and Violence against Women: Tracking the Ruling Relations of Aid in a Women's Development NGO in Kyrgyzstan -- Introduction -- Using institutional ethnography to explicate ruling relations -- Kyrgyzstan and its contemporary setting for development -- The organizational setting of the research -- A puzzle emerges from ethnographic data -- Ruling relations and Sophia's direction of the Network -- Development NGOs and the ruling practices of peacebuilding -- Notes -- References -- 9 Alignment and Autonomy: Food Systems in Canada -- The food movement -- Two essential statements about context -- Shaping by capital -- Breaking away, or trying to -- Beginnings of a movement -- Getting organized.

Corporate-national policy -- A closer look at the landscape and actors -- Whole-farm organizations -- Conclusion: The importance of context, or framing -- Notes -- References -- About the Contributors -- Index.