NGOs Advocating for the South in the United States Congress: Changing the Rules of the Global Game

Although the campaigns all achieved some visible success, compromises and unintended outcomes produced effects that tended to undermine intended policy changes and to reinforce existing North-South power relationships. Northern NGOs acted implicitly as representatives of the citizens of the South, thereby unwittingly helping to reproduce and institutionalize certain North-South power differentials. Ultimately, the campaign that was the most egalitarian was also the most successful. Until NGOs are able to reflexively analyze and understand the inherent inequalities in their own discourses and practices with respect to their southern partners, they will not have the ability to hold global political relations to such a standard.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Sociology

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2015

Author dc:creator

• Fischer, Lara Ann

Contributors dc:contributor

• Martin, William G.

• Sociology, Social Structure and Development

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(MiAaPQ)AAI3153293

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/86204