Tuesday, 9 December 2014

Article in Focus: Fisher, W. F. “DOING GOOD? The Politics and Anti-politics of NGO Practices” Annual Review of Anthropology, 27 (1997) 439-464



As the title suggests, the article is based upon exploring the relationships between NGO’s and politics, but through the dimensions via which they tend to interact with the processes: society in its totality, not just civil society.
The article assess the impacts that globalization has played, important enough to create a new niche that has been specifically oriented towards them. Yet more so it shows the various kinds of interaction and impact they have, from the political to the apolitical. Dissecting across the various lines in society in the sense that they happen to show the various generations of organizations that have evolved.
The approach of this article is well suited and organized towards exploring analytically the issues that surround NGO’s as it explores the environment and frameworks within which they operate. It addresses all relevant aspects largely, with the exception of how they sometimes fail to achieve their ultimate aims. The lack of retrospective analysis in depth is what makes it clear that it does not take that approach rather chooses to focus on the other aspects.
The clarity in the focus is what makes it an excellent article to be used in a critical analysis essay, although that is only possible when it is referred back to along with other articles. As that balances the approaches and provides the perspective evidence that can lead to deductive reasoning based conclusions.

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