Ragged Trousered NGOs: Development Work under Neoliberalism

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of theory and practice boxes
List of case studies
Acknowledgements
Introduction: a story of civil, social and political activism that starts in East London and travels to the USSR and post-Soviet Russia and Central Asia
	Structure of the book
	My arguments
	Ragged learning: a glossary of Russian and Central Asia terms in the civil society field
	Further reading on civil society and development
1 On time, place and youth activism: from Kyrgyzstan’s 2010 revolution to the anti-racist movement in East London in the 1970s
	Osh, Kyrgyzstan, summer 2011
	Case study 1.1 Community development in a post-conflict situation, Fergana Valley
	East London, summer 1973
	Case study 1.2 The anti-racist movement in East London in the 1970s
	Linking the stories from Kyrgyzstan and East London
	Questions for ragged activists
	Further reading around the East London case study
	Notes
2 Schools of self-management:promoting an alternative urban strategy in the face of Thatcherism in the 1980s
	Community work in risk society: the pluralist and conflict models
	The Greater London Council in the early 1980s: significance of the new politics and programmes
	Case study 2.1 Managing an equal opportunities vocational training organisation
	Case study 2.2 The complex dynamics of pluralist community work
	Developments in the Bangladeshi community in the 1980s
	Conclusion: what we achieved and what we did not achieve
	Ragged manager questions
	Further reading on community development and alternatives to neoliberalism
	Notes
3 International volunteering and solidarity: and the fall of Soviet socialism
	International solidarity movements in the 1970s and 1980s
	Global civil society, internationalism and transnational activists
	Case study 3.1 Working for Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO)
	Case study 3.2 A volunteering experience in Soviet Russia
	Case study 3.3 Moving east – a transition travelogue
	Conclusion on international solidarity
	Ragged North–South partnership exercise
	Further reading on international solidarity and transition in the former Soviet Union
	Notes
4 NGO capacity builder: organisational development in Central Asia in the transition period
	Introduction: CS development programmes in Central Asia
	Capacity building within a programme for institutional development of civil society
	Case study 4.1 Coordination of a regional civil society capacity-building programme
	P1 – Training and community development
	Case study 4.2 A local NGO resource centre
	P2 – The self-helpprogramme
	Case study 4.3 Working as a consultant in organisation development
	Capacity building for what?
	Ragged questions for NGO staff and managers
	Further reading on NGO capacity building (with particular reference to Central Asia)
	Notes
5 Improving services or promoting rights: ideological and practical dilemmas for NGOs faced with cuts to social welfare East and West
	Introduction: the external context
	Civil society and government relations
	Case study 5.1 Building self-help as a social movement
	Case study 5.2 Women with disabilities fighting for their rights
	NGOs, governments and the welfare state
	Case study 5.3 Learning from the experience of NGO social sector initiatives in Russia
	For ragged trousered activists: the ‘parallel track’
	Questions for activists
	Further reading on NGOs, social policy and development
	Notes
6 Working in conflict: a Gramscian and world systems analysis of NGO responses in the new hot and cold wars
	Searching for a new framework
	Civil society at the crossroads
	Case study 6.1 ‘Stop the War’ and ‘Respect!’ in Tower Hamlets
	Case study 6.2 Visits to Ukraine during Euro-Maidan
	Case study 6.3 Protest movements and ‘foreign agents’ in Russia
	Commentary: populism versus human rights
	Developing a counter-hegemonic kind of knowledge
	Ragged activist exercise: consider the following statements by authors quoted in this book and answer the questions below
	Further reading on international conflict and civil society
	Notes
7 Theories of change: new agendas of civil society, social and political activists at the international, national and local levels
	One problem, many solutions?
	TOC-1 War of position in the international development sector
	Case study 7.1 Dutch international NGOs resisting donor demands
	TOC-2 Resisting the consequences of hot and cold war at national level
	Case study 7.2 Changes at the national level – examples from Kyrgyzstan
	TOC-3 Partisan tactics and radical localism
	Protest strategies
	Case study 7.3 Social media and environmental activism in Kyrgyzstan
	Summing up on social, political and civic activism
	Ragged advocacy
	Further reading on change strategies in NGOs
	Notes
Conclusion: towards 2020
	A ragged reflection
Index