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

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

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

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

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

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

C - Kapitola v odborné knize

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50404 - Anthropology, ethnology

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2017

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název knihy nebo sborníku

Cultures of doing good : anthropologists and NGOs

ISBN

978-0-8173-1968-7

Počet stran výsledku

19

Strana od-do

75-93," spol. bibliogr. 237"

Počet stran knihy

272

Název nakladatele

The University of Alabama Press

Místo vydání

Tuscaloosa

Kód UT WoS kapitoly

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