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Malin Arvidson. Foto: Patrik Hekkala

Malin Arvidson

Universitetslektor | FD i sociologi, docent i socialt arbete

Malin Arvidson. Foto: Patrik Hekkala

Contradictions and Confusions in Development Work: Exploring the Realities of Bangladeshi NGOs

Författare

  • Malin Arvidson

Summary, in English

Ambiguous practices and identities of NGOs have become a source of increasing concern

for all involved in development intervention. But apart from pointing at dishonest marketing

and unfortunate unintended consequences of donors’ support, how can we understand

these ambiguities? Based on an ethnographic study of local Bangladeshi NGOs,

the article explores actions and behaviour of grassroots NGO staff. The article shows how,

equipped with an ideal image of the altruistic development worker, the staff ’s encounter

with reality provides them with contradictory and confusing messages as to who they

should be and how they should act, resulting in disillusion and moral discord. The analysis

examines concepts such as altruism, alienation, goal ambiguity, moral selving and moral

discord, with an aim to expand our understanding of some moral dilemmas of development

practice, its sources and unpredictable outcomes.

Avdelning/ar

  • Sociologi

Publiceringsår

2008

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

109-134

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Journal of South Asian Development

Volym

3

Issue

1

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

SAGE Publications

Ämne

  • Sociology (excluding Social Work, Social Psychology and Social Anthropology)

Nyckelord

  • participation
  • empowerment
  • NGOs
  • Bangladesh

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 0973-1741