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- Transforming public space: a local radio’s work in a poor urban community
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Among processes towards democratisation, it has been asserted that alternative radio has a central role in the citizen making of the poor. However, it is important to analyse in detail what possibilities an alternative or citizens’ radio has to st ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-10-01 11:33
- The State of Resistance: Popular Struggles in the Global South
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Author: Polet, Francois (ed.) Publisher: New York/London: Zed Books, 2007, ISB ...
Book review - admin - 2009-12-10 09:32
- Managing Activism: A Guide to Dealing with Activists and Pressure Groups
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Author: Deegan, Denise Publisher: London:Kogan Page, 2001, ISBN: 0 7494 3435 ...
Book review - admin - 2009-10-18 20:50
- Poverty: Human Consciousness and the Amnesia of Development
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Author: Kothari, Rajni Issue: Volume 8, Numb ...
Book review - admin - 2009-12-17 13:07
- Disaster Management and Civil Society: Earthquake Relief in Japan, Turkey and India
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Author: Özerdem, Alpaslan and Jacoby, Tim Publisher: International Library o ...
Book review - admin - 2009-10-18 20:57
- Madrasas as partners in education provision: the South Asian experience
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Madrasas, Islamic schools, are prominent non-state education providers in South Asia, especially for hard-to-reach children in Muslim communities. Recent attention on madrasas has, however, focused on their alleged links with militancy, overshadowing an ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2010-06-23 13:54
- No visible difference: a women's empowerment process in a Cambodian NGO
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The lives of female Cambodian NGO staff are characterised by the contradictions of apparent freedom and multiple invisible constraints on their behaviour and choices. An empowerment process facilitated by an expatriate did not produce the expected respo ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2011-08-05 16:00
- Strengthening the voice of the poor: religious organisations' engagement in policy consultation processes in Nigeria and Tanzania
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This paper describes attempts in Nigeria and Tanzania to build the capacity of selected religious organisations to participate in policy consultation processes, by strengthening their ability to speak effectively to governments on behalf of poor communi ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2012-07-12 13:54
- The trade union solution or the NGO problem? The fight for global labour rights
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This paper argues that the NGO position on global labour rights is mistaken. NGOs' concerns over race and gender inequalities and their rejection of the primacy of class in today's global, capitalist economy have frustrated the project of incorporating la ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:01
- NGO partnerships and the taming of the grassroots in rural India
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Based on reflections undertaken with members of a partnership between an NGO and Adivasi (original dweller) communities in the Indian state of Orissa, this paper examines various linkages among NGOs (international, state, district, or local), and grassroo ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:46
