CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2013
| Author | Zamfir, George Iulian |
|---|---|
| Title | STRUGGLING FOR WELFARE: NGO INTERACTION IN FERENTARI AND THE EMERGENCE OF CRITIQUE |
| Summary | While taking into account the evolution of NGOs as important actors in development projects and their emergence in the European Union welfare politics, I am looking at how these processes are visible by examining how a marginal Bucharest neighborhood is portrayed by NGOs as they develop school children oriented activites. My question is how NGO agency can be discussed in development projects. I answer this questions by employing my experience as an employee of Policy Center for Roma and Minorities, one active NGO in this respect, scrutinizing the director’s discourse on Roma issues and European Union institutions, analyzing a social research report produced by the same organization, and interviews with a member of another NGO and one teacher in the neighborhood’s school where the two NGOs developed projects. As the main NGO actors I looked at in my research are critical towards what happened so far in Ferentari, I assessed how the interaction between them has influenced this critique. While exerting a very vocal critique aimed at the EU institutions for failing to properly address Roma issues and support Roma oriented NGO, PCRM’s director’s discourse obscures the effects of PCRM’s projects in Ferentari, which produce a competitive NGO environment. |
| Supervisor | Zentai, Violetta; Rajaram, Prem Kumar |
| Department | Sociology MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2013/zamfir_george.pdf |
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