NGOs Advocating for the South in the United States Congress: Changing the Rules of the Global Game
Fischer, Lara Ann
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Description
Title
NGOs Advocating for the South in the United States Congress: Changing the Rules of the Global Game
Author(s)
Fischer, Lara Ann
Issue Date
2004
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Martin, William G.
Department of Study
Sociology
Discipline
Sociology
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
Sociology, Social Structure and Development
Language
eng
Abstract
Although the campaigns all achieved some visible success, compromises and unintended outcomes produced effects that tended to undermine intended policy changes and to reinforce existing North-South power relationships. Northern NGOs acted implicitly as representatives of the citizens of the South, thereby unwittingly helping to reproduce and institutionalize certain North-South power differentials. Ultimately, the campaign that was the most egalitarian was also the most successful. Until NGOs are able to reflexively analyze and understand the inherent inequalities in their own discourses and practices with respect to their southern partners, they will not have the ability to hold global political relations to such a standard.
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