Nongovernmental Organizations: Anthropological and Historical Aspects

Julia Elyachar

doi:10.1016/B978-0-08-097086-8.12214-7

Nongovernmental Organizations: Anthropological and Historical Aspects

Julia Elyachar

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This article reviews the brief history of the NGO, including its relation to development, neoliberalism, the United Nations, and mutual aid organizations. NGOs gather and render actionable forms of knowledge from diverse locations, at the interface of financial infrastructures and fields of organizational power. Like ethnography, NGOs render local forms of embodied knowledge explicit, quantifiable, and commensurate with knowledge in other locations of the globe. This has made them a popular if problematic location for fieldwork. As a flexible socio-technology, the NGO form interpolates global flows of knowledge, power, and finance.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences: Second Edition
Publisher	Elsevier Inc.
Pages	856-860
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Electronic)	9780080970875
ISBN (Print)	9780080970868
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-097086-8.12214-7
State	Published - Mar 26 2015
Externally published	Yes

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General Social Sciences

Keywords

Action research
Charity
Civil society
Development
Fieldwork
Globalization
Human rights
Humanitarianism
Knowledge
NGOs
Neoliberalism
Political anthropology
Religion
Social Enterprise
United Nations

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