Reformists and Revolutionists: Social Work NGOs and Activist Struggles in the Czech Republic

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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Reformists and Revolutionists: Social Work NGOs and Activist Struggles in the Czech Republic
Original language description
This chapter concerns the competition and cooperation of NGOs and activists around social work that concerns Roma in the Czech Republic. It describes three types of organizations, their conflicts and their possibilities of agency: a family-based NGO, a large, professionalized NGO and an advocacy network that tries to initiate social change. It shows how mechanisms of everyday organizational pressures and structural requirements of professionalization gradually remodel the first two competing organizations so that they come to resemble each other in their functioning and in their avoidance of political issues. Such processes are only recently challenged by activists who criticize NGOs and who try to transcend the divide between “professionals” and “clients,” in order to unite them into a struggle for common interest. I describe how such protest movements can initiate the emergence of advocacy networks with greater possibilities of agency. I identify the risks and benefits of NGO-activist cooperation in these networks and argue that NGO professionalism is not a complete barrier for engagement.
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2017
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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