Are non-governmental organizations working in development a transnational community?
Author InfoJanet Gabriel Townsend (Department of Geography, University of Durham, UK) Abstract At the end of this millennium, poor people in low-income economies have lived through a series of extraordinary changes. The latest has been the rise of the transnational community of workers in NGDOs (non-governmental ‘development’ organizations), a community expressing shared values, language and practices which differ from those of local everyday life, from Orissa to Oxfordshire. NGDOs are not new but have burgeoned beyond recognition. For a Mexican peasant, NGDOs may be a more relevant, more immediate reality than NAFTA (the North American Free Trade Area). One thread of ideas in the community treats of women’s self-empowerment. Very similar discussions of ‘autonomy’ have been witnessed among speakers of Mixe in Mexico and Telegu in India. How may we understand a community of ideas which produces such strikingly parallel local talk in such distant and dissimilar locales? More important, h
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