DEVS 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Social Enterprise, Social Capital, Via Campesina
10 Dec 2017
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Includes ngos, cbos and social movements associations are included: typically issue-oriented (rather than profit oriented) Ideologically and organizationally diverse: northern ngos tend to be the best funded (reproducing colonial norms?, alsogongos (government organized ngos, autocratic states. Or just the certain things they lobby for? there are many. Ngo growth: massive growth, shift to neoliberalism. Mst in brazil, via campesina (global), tea party activists in the us (right wing), Black lives matter : national or international, more confrontational interaction with the state, little outside funding (for the most part) Why so much growth in civil society: growing interest in issue-based activism, growing access to transport and telecommunications, shrinking of welfare state, rise of neoliberalism. A form of economic and culture capital in which social networks are central transactions are maked by trust and cooperation, and market agents produce goods and serviced not mainly for themselves but for the common good .
