Reimagining Civil Society Collaborations in Development Starting from the South

At a time when uneven power dynamics are high on development actors' agenda, this book will be an important contribution to researchers and practitioners working on innovation in development and civil society. While there is much discussion of localization, decolonization and 'shifting pow...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: van Wessel, Margit
Other Authors: Kontinen, Tiina, Bawole, Justice Nyigmah
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis 2023
Subjects:
Online Access:
Collection: Directory of Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
LEADER 03335nma a2200397 u 4500
001 EB002143058
003 EBX01000000000000001281184
005 00000000000000.0
007 cr|||||||||||||||||||||
008 230202 ||| eng
020 |a 9781032147758 
020 |a 9781003241003 
020 |a 9781032147673 
100 1 |a van Wessel, Margit 
245 0 0 |a Reimagining Civil Society Collaborations in Development  |h Elektronische Ressource  |b Starting from the South 
260 |b Taylor & Francis  |c 2023 
300 |a 1 electronic resource (365 p.) 
653 |a Charities, voluntary services and philanthropy;Development studies 
653 |a thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JK Social services and welfare, criminology::JKS Social welfare and social services::JKSN Social work::JKSN1 Charities, voluntary services and philanthropy 
653 |a thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTP Development studies 
700 1 |a Kontinen, Tiina 
700 1 |a Bawole, Justice Nyigmah 
700 1 |a van Wessel, Margit 
041 0 7 |a eng  |2 ISO 639-2 
989 |b DOAB  |a Directory of Open Access Books 
500 |a Creative Commons (cc), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ 
028 5 0 |a 10.4324/9781003241003 
856 4 0 |u https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/60520/1/9781000843309.pdf  |7 0  |x Verlag  |3 Volltext 
856 4 2 |u https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/95920  |z DOAB: description of the publication 
082 0 |a 333 
082 0 |a 000 
082 0 |a 361 
082 0 |a 360 
082 0 |a 300 
082 0 |a 364 
520 |a At a time when uneven power dynamics are high on development actors' agenda, this book will be an important contribution to researchers and practitioners working on innovation in development and civil society. While there is much discussion of localization, decolonization and 'shifting power' in civil society collaborations in development, the debate thus far centers on the aid system. This book directs attention to CSOs as drivers of development in various contexts that we refer to as the Global South. This book take a transformative stance, reimagining roles, relations and processes. It does so from five complementary angles: (1) Southern CSOs reclaiming the lead, 2) displacement of the North-South dyad, (3) Southern-centred questions, (4) new roles for Northern actors, and (5) new starting points for collaboration. The book relativizes international collaboration, asking INGOs, Northern CSOs, and their donors to follow Southern CSOs' leads, recognizing their contextually geared perspectives, agendas, resources, capacities, and ways of working. Based in 19 empirically grounded chapters, the book also offers an agenda for further research, design, and experimentation. Emphasizing the need to 'Start from the South' this book thus re-imagines and re-centers Civil Society collaborations in development, offering Southern-centred ways of understanding and developing relations, roles, and processes, in theory and practice. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license. Funded by Wageningen University.