NGOs and Social Movements: The Politics of Protest and Change

This course provides a critical introduction to NGOs, the nature of social protest, how they have interacted and influenced each other, and how they have globalised. It questions the perception that NGOs offer an alternative to state-led development models, considers the concept of humanitarian intervention in diverse contexts and explores how social movements are posing a challenge to neoliberalism. It examines both the theoretical basis for NGO and social movement strategies for social change as well as their practical implications, and draws on a number of case studies, exploring what kind of development and change is possible.