179
Discourse, Power, and Development: Turning a Critical Lens on INGOs

Monday, 16 July 2018: 10:30-12:20
Location: 104B (MTCC NORTH BUILDING)
RC09 Social Transformations and Sociology of Development (host committee)

Language: English

This panel turns its attention to the International Nongovernmental Organizations that shape development practices. By asking about the discourses, imaginaries, and assemblages of international development work, this panel takes a critical approach to thinking about the role of INGOs. What discourses shape the work of INGOs? How are those discourses created, validated, and perpetuated and what does this tell us about where power lies? What is the effect of these discourses in practice? Considering implications of development discourses for the politics of power in development aid allows for a more critical and reflexive study of international development. A careful interrogation of the construction of the various actors of development and the “needs” that development aid addresses shapes this panel’s discussion to bring us collectively closer to a critical reflection on the roles and work of INGOs.
Session Organizer:
Mollie PEPPER, Northeastern University, USA
Oral Presentations
179.1
Entre La Frontera y La Posfrontera: Agendas De Desarrollo y Medios De Vida En Una Comunidad Nativa Minera De La Reserva Comunal Amarakaeri.
Almendra ORBEGOSO, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Peru
179.2
INGOs, Neoliberalism, and the Global Movement to Combat Labor Trafficking
Stephanie LIMONCELLI, Loyola Marymount University, USA
179.3
Non-Governmental Volunteer Receiving Organisations in Ecuador: Disciplining Global Citizens
Lucia FUCHS-SAWERT, Free University of Berlin, Germany
179.4
Politics of Transnational Humanitarianism: Humanitarian Aid Organizations Assisting Syrian Refugees in Southeastern Turkey
Dolunay UGUR, Yale University, USA
179.5
How Doctors without Borders Is Erasing the Frontiers between North and South
Ludovic JOXE, Université Paris Descartes, France
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