Paradoxes of institutionalisation: The depoliticisation of Bangladeshi NGOs

Shelley Feldman

Development in Practice, 2003, vol. 13, issue 1, 5-26

Abstract: Through an analysis of how Bangladeshi NGOs have become institutionalised, the author examines patterns of bureaucratisation and professionalisation to argue that NGOs are part of a process of incorporation that mediates opposition to gender and other structural inequalities. Two important tendencies--the growing partnership between NGOs, the state, and donor agencies, and the discursive shift from social welfare and redistribution to individualism, entrepreneurship, and self-reliance--exemplify these processes. The paper shows how institutionalisation, accompanied by the conflation of civil society and NGOs, masks the loss of member-citizens' voices, channelling opposition through NGOs in ways that often compromise their interests.

Date: 2003
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DOI: 10.1080/0961452022000037955

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