Full Description
The essays in this book reflect pioneering efforts to study the global movement of ideas and institutions. They deal with topics of significant contemporary importance: initiatives to address the AIDS epidemic in East Africa; to protect the peoples and ecosystems of the Amazon; to advance the "truth and reconciliation" process in South Africa and in other areas of great conflict; to promote "civil society" in Eastern Europe and Central Asia; to advocate for environmental protection in the United States, Great Britain, Germany, and Japan; and to spread Rotary Clubs and encourage "social entrepreneurship" throughout the world. These essays highlight a wide range of research, paying close attention to the realities of particular situations and to current thinking about general processes.
Contents
Foreword: Social Science and Philanthropic Studies by Kenneth Prewitt
Acknowledgments
Part 1. Introduction
1. Philanthropic Projections: Sending Institutional Logics Abroad/ Steven Heydemann and David C. Hammack
2. Nongovernmental Organizations and the Making of the International Community/ Akira Iriye
Part 2. Projecting Logics
3. Philanthropy and the "Perfect Democracy" of Rotary International/ Brendan Goff
4. Social Entrepreneurship: Success Stories and Logic Construction/ Michael Lounsbury and David Strang
5. Moral Globalization and Discursive Struggle: Reconciliation, Transitional Justice, and Cosmopolitan Discourse/ Jonathan VanAntwerpen
Part 3. Contesting Logics
6. Philanthropic Foundations in Russia: Western Projection and Local Legitimacy/ John W. Slocum
7. Promoting Civil Society or Diffusing NGOs? U.S. Donors in the Former Soviet Union/ Sada Aksartova
8. Dialectics of Patronage: Logics of Accountability at the African AIDS-NGO Interface/ Ann Swidler
Part 4. Transnational Logics
9. The Political Logic of Institutional Adaptation: NGOs' Strategies Abroad/ Elizabeth Bloodgood
10. Exporting Institutional Logics into the Amazon? American and German Efforts to Protect the Ecosystems and Traditional Peoples of the Amazon Basin/ Sandra Moog
List of Contributors
Index
