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Doing good?: The politics and antipolitics of NGO practices

Fisher, William F.·1997·Annual Review of Anthropology
DOI 10.1146/annurev.anthro.26.1.439
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This review surveys current literature concerned with the growing numbers, changing functions, and intensifying networks of nongovernmental organizations which have had significant impacts upon globalization, international and national politics, and local lives. Studies of these changes illuminate understandings of translocal flows of ideas, knowledge, funding, and people; shed light on changing relationships among citizenry, associations, and the state; and encourage a reconsideration of connections between the personal and the political. Attention is given to the political implications of discourses about NGOs, the complex micropolitics of these associations, and the importance of situating them as evolving processes within complexes of competing and overlapping practices and discourses.

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Authors
Fisher, W. F.
Affiliations
Harvard University (US)
Corresponding author
Fisher, William F.
ORCID
Fisher, William F.
Venue
Annual Review of Anthropology
Publisher
Annual Reviews
Published
1997-10
Volume
26
Issue
1
Pages
439-464
ISSN
  • 0084-6570 (ISSN-L)
  • 1545-4290
DOI
10.1146/annurev.anthro.26.1.439
OpenAlex
W2100619499
Cited by
1,083
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110
Citations by year
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FWCI
25.63
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
Annual Review of Anthropology (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Anthropology › Anthropological Studies and Insights
  • Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › International Relations and Foreign Policy
  • Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Globalization and political ideologies
Keywords
non-governmental organizations, anti-politics, globalization, citizen associations, state-citizen relations, personal and political, micropolitics, NGO discourse, civil society

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