Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood: The NGOization of Palestine

In this article, we examine the shifting roles played by non-state actors in governing areas of limited statehood. In particular, we focus on the emergence of voluntary grassroots organizations in Palestine and describe how regimes of international development aid transformed these organizations int...

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Published in:Business & society Vol. 60; no. 7; pp. 1675 - 1707
Main Authors: Arda, Lama, Banerjee, Subhabrata Bobby
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.09.2021
SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
Subjects:
Activism
areas of limited statehood
Business & economic sciences
Colonialism
Development aid
Foreign aid
General management, entrepreneurship & organizational theory
Gestion de l’entreprise, entrepreneuriat & théorie des organisations
Governance
Grass roots movement
Historical analysis
Human rights
Interpersonal relations
Middle class
NGOization
NGOs
Non-state actors
Nongovernmental organizations
Public sphere
Sciences économiques & de gestion
Social relations
State role
Statehood
NGOization
areas of limited statehood
human rights
governance
ISSN:0007-6503, 1552-4205, 1552-4205
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Summary:In this article, we examine the shifting roles played by non-state actors in governing areas of limited statehood. In particular, we focus on the emergence of voluntary grassroots organizations in Palestine and describe how regimes of international development aid transformed these organizations into professional nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) that created new forms of colonial control. Based on in-depth interviews with 145 NGO members and key stakeholders and a historical analysis of limited statehood in Palestine, we found that social relations became disembedded from the local context and re-embedded in new relations with international donor organizations resulting in a depoliticized public sphere. NGOization of the economy also resulted in new forms of exclusion and inclusion as well as contestations between a new class of urban middle-class professionals working in NGOs and the older generation of activists who were involved in grassroots organizations. Our findings have implications for business and human rights and governance in areas of limited statehood, in particular how private actors such as NGOs are able to exercise power in the economy.
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scopus-id:2-s2.0-85071584505
ISSN:0007-6503
1552-4205
1552-4205
DOI:10.1177/0007650319870825