‘Missionaries of the new era’: neoliberalism and NGOs in Palestine

Merz, Sibille

doi:10.1177/0306396812444820

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“…For example, beneficiaries are reframed as consumers (e.g., McDermont, 2007), activists as entrepreneurs (e.g., Merz, 2012), and donors as investors (e.g., Vestergaard, 2013). For example, beneficiaries are reframed as consumers (e.g., McDermont, 2007), activists as entrepreneurs (e.g., Merz, 2012), and donors as investors (e.g., Vestergaard, 2013).…”

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Nonprofit Organizations Becoming Business-Like

Maier

Meyer

Steinbereithner

2014

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

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By now, the becoming business-like of nonprofit organizations (NPOs) is a wellestablished global phenomenon that has received ever-growing attention from management and organization studies. However, the field remains hard to grasp in its entirety, as researchers use a multitude of similar, yet distinct, key concepts. The considerable range and complexity of these overlapping notions create major challenges: Scholars struggle to position their work in a larger context; it is not easy to build on previous findings and methodological developments; and research gaps are difficult to identify. The present article presents the first systematic literature review to confront those challenges by reviewing 599 relevant sources. In a first step, various key concepts are clarified. Second, the field is mapped according to three research foci: causes of NPOs becoming business-like, organizational structures and processes of becoming business-like, and effects of becoming business-like. From this, we draw conclusions and make suggestions for further research.

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Section: Effects Of Becoming Business-likementioning

confidence: 99%

Nonprofit Organizations Becoming Business-Like

Maier

Meyer

Steinbereithner

2014

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

463

320

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“…Israel, in addition to its stark military tactics of control, employs economic modes, such as strictly controlling travel and work permits and restricting access to land, water, and transportation, which pushes previously independent farmers to become wage labourers. Meanwhile, the PA, Israel, and various non‐state actors prioritize cost recovery in infrastructure development, champion industrial park development, and focus on economic development in ways that sideline political rights (Khalidi & Samour ; Merz ; Trottier ; Wildeman & Tartir ) . As a result, Palestinians are consistently hailed by each of the region's would‐be sovereigns less as politically empowered citizens than as neoliberal subjects (Clarno ).…”

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Water, power, and refusal: confronting evasive accountability in a Palestinian village

McKee

2019

Royal Anthropological Inst

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This article interprets the meanings and motivations of refusal to pay water bills within a context of fragmented sovereignty. Residents of a village in the occupied Palestinian West Bank call for solutions to water shortages and failed infrastructure, but do so amidst capricious power, where would‐be sovereigns evade accountability. Lacking avenues for direct engagement with authorities, residents speak in generalized ethical terms of their legitimate water claims, and they resort to bill refusal. Setting villagers’ bill refusals within the broader set of interactions between would‐be sovereigns and subjects, this article contributes to anthropological scholarship on refusal by demonstrating how it can be a way of not only dismantling state power, but also summoning a responsible sovereign. Furthermore, it highlights how common dilemmas faced by refusers – dismissal and co‐optation – can be exacerbated by the same evasive accountability against which they protest.

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“…Therefore, many have undergone a particular form of organizational reconfiguration that increasingly reflects the international climate within which they now operate. This process of 'NGOization' (Alvarez 2009;Jad 2004;Lang 2009Lang , 2012Merz 2012) refers to social movements and grassroots organizations that 'professionalize, institutionalize and bureaucratize in vertically structured, policy-outcomeorientated organizations' (Lang 2012: 63-4). This process is prevalent within TANs, comprised of member organizations that are often at the forefront of policy engagement.…”

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“…In this article, I argue that the ability of a TAN to implement the political efficacy, while diminishing the normative legitimacy, of a public sphere, represents two sides of the same coin -the consequence of a new socio-economic shift in the internal composition of TANs towards increasingly professional organizations. This process of 'NGOization' (Alvarez 2009;Jad 2004;Lang 2009Lang , 2012Merz 2012) can increase opportunities for policy influence, but at the cost of elevating strategic action within TAN decision-making. The consequence of this is a reduction in the inclusivity and participatory parity of decision-making in networks, thus generating 'pseudo-publics' (Junge 2012) disconnected from a communicative environment.…”

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Building democratic public spheres? Transnational advocacy networks and the social forum process

Norman

2017

Global Networks

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What, if anything, can transnational advocacy networks (TANs) contribute to the democratization of public spheres outside Westphalian frameworks? On the one hand, TANs excel at turning international public campaigns into political influence – connecting people and power across borders. On the other hand, the increasingly policy‐orientated nature of TANs raises questions about their legitimacy in speaking on behalf of multiple publics. In this article, I suggest that a TAN's success in ensuring the political efficacy of public spheres, while at the same time undermining their normative legitimacy, reflects two sides of the same coin. This is a consequence of the recent internal professionalization of advocacy networks. Framing professionalization as a particular form of communicative distortion within TAN decision‐making, I suggest that networks should incorporate internal deliberative mechanisms, adapted from international social forums, to enhance the normative legitimacy of democratic public spheres.

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‘Missionaries of the new era’: neoliberalism and NGOs in Palestine

Cited by 31 publications

References 7 publications

Nonprofit Organizations Becoming Business-Like

Nonprofit Organizations Becoming Business-Like

Water, power, and refusal: confronting evasive accountability in a Palestinian village

Building democratic public spheres? Transnational advocacy networks and the social forum process

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