Reimagining Civil Society Collaborations in Development Starting from the South

• Main Author: van Wessel, Margit
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Taylor & Francis 2023; Routledge; Taylor and Francis
• Edition: 1
• Series: Routledge Explorations in Development Studies
• Subjects: African CSOs; Civil Society; Civil Society Collaborations; Constitutional and administrative law: general; CSO Representative; CSOs Work; Developing & Emerging Countries; development; Development studies; Diaspora Members; Diaspora Philanthropy; Domestic CSOs; Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning; Geography; Global South; Human geography; Humanitarian Aid; Interdisciplinary studies; International Aid Architecture; International Monetary Fund; Law; Laws of specific jurisdictions and specific areas of law; Local CSOs; Local Knowledge; Nonfiction; North South Collaboration; Northern CSOs; Northern NGO; Politics and government; power dynamics; Practical Hybrids; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects; Regional geography; Sex Workers; Social Movement Representative; Social problems and social welfare in general; Social Science; Society and Social Sciences; Socio-economic Development; Sociology; Sociology and anthropology; South; Southern CSOs; Southern Feminist Movements; Volunteer Work; Young Man; Sex Workers; Young Man; Northern NGO; Diaspora Philanthropy; Socio-economic Development; Diaspora Members; Global South; Local Knowledge; Southern CSOs; Local CSOs; Civil Society; Southern Feminists; Humanitarian Aid; Civil Society Collaborations; Social Movement Representative; power dynamics; Practical Hybrids; development; Domestic CSOs; International Aid Architecture; CSO Representative; South; African CSOs; Community Philanthropy; International Monetary Fund; Northern CSOs; North South Collaboration; Southern Feminist Movements; CSOs Work
• ISBN: 1000843300; 9781000843309; 1032147679; 9781032147758; 9781032147673; 103214775X; 100324100X; 1000843335; 9781000843330; 9781003241003
• DOI: 10.4324/9781003241003

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.