{"id":671,"date":"2007-12-31T21:36:36","date_gmt":"2008-01-01T02:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/abebbington\/?p=671"},"modified":"2016-08-04T16:04:36","modified_gmt":"2016-08-04T20:04:36","slug":"reclaiming-development-ngos-and-the-challenge-of-alternatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/abebbington\/2007\/2007\/reclaiming-development-ngos-and-the-challenge-of-alternatives\/","title":{"rendered":"Reclaiming Development?  NGOs and the Challenge of Alternatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By\u00a0D. Mitlin, S. Hickey and A. Bebbington | Published in\u00a0<em>World Development<\/em> 35(10): 1699-1720<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>| <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2007\/12\/Journal-2007-Reclaiming-Development.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Full text<\/a> (PDF) |<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong>:\u00a0In 1987, World Development published a supplement entitled \u201cDevelopment Alternatives: the Challenge of NGOs.\u201d Although this challenge now seems far more complicated, this paper suggests one way of giving meaning (and possibility) back to the juxtaposition of \u201cdevelopment alternative\u201d and NGOs. NGOs might benefit from rethinking the notion of development alternatives in terms of the politics and political economy of social change, of adopting a Gramscian reading of civil society and their role therein, and from reflecting that their role in realizing genuine alternatives has usually been in conjunction with political programs of social movements and\/or developmentalist states. Such a rethinking will help define the contours of a theory for NGO action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0D. Mitlin, S. Hickey and A. Bebbington | Published in\u00a0World Development 35(10): 1699-1720 | Full text (PDF) | Abstract:\u00a0In 1987, World Development published a supplement entitled \u201cDevelopment Alternatives: the Challenge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":455,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34813,34831],"tags":[34882,24544,34881,34883,34812],"class_list":["post-671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-34813","category-peer-refereed-articles","tag-civil-society","tag-development","tag-development-alternatives","tag-gramsci","tag-ngos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/abebbington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/abebbington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/abebbington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/abebbington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/455"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/abebbington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/abebbington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/abebbington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/abebbington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/abebbington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}