Books in the NGOgraphies series

Anthropological field studies of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in their unique cultural and political contexts.

Addresses the ways in which natural disasters impact the strategies and priorities of neoliberalizing states in the contemporary era. Raja Swamy offers an ethnographically rich account of post-disaster reconstruction, its contested aims, and the mixed outcomes of state policy, humanitarian aid, and local resistance.

An anthropological approach to an emerging form of transnational political engagement by independent civil society organisations. Raul Acosta examines the manner in which progressive nongovernmental organisations and activists act in a more intermingled and processual way than scholars have previously acknowledged.