Helen Yanacopulos
Biographic Data
| ID | 1590144 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Helen Yanacopulos |
| GIVEN NAMES | Helen |
| FAMILY NAME | Yanacopulos |
| SIGNATURE | YANACOPULOS H |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Open University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Ingo Organisation and Strategy
In the previous chapters, we have seen how INGOs engage with their publics and how the cosmopolitan values they are based on lead to an ambivalence in how they work to become agents of change. An ambivalent cosmopolitanism stems from both the ways that publics view INGOs — that is to say the ways that the relationships between ‘developed’ and ‘developing’ have been constructed (partial responsibility for which belongs to INGOs) — and, as I will a…
International NGO Engagement, Advocacy, Activism
The world of international non-governmental organisations (INGOs) has dramatically changed during the last two decades. The author critically analyses the engagement of INGOs within the contemporary i
The Janus Faces of a Middle Power
South Africa's rising international presence is undeniable. The country has recently joined the BRICS club of powerful emerging countries, is in the G20, is a member of IBSA (the India–Brazil–South Africa Dialogue Forum) and has aspirations to become a permanent member of a potentially reformed UN Security Council. Furthermore, South Africa has set up a new international development agency, a key marker of a middle power. And yet South Africa is …
Knowing but not knowing
Drawing on case study material from Uganda and Nepal, this paper highlights the tension between what is ‘known’ and what is ‘done’ by practitioners working in the arena of conflict and development. It explores the forms of knowledge given conceptual and practical influence and the development interventions that are consequently sanctioned or sidelined. It argues that this approach opens conceptual and practical space in which to address the inter…
Patterns of governance
This paper explores patterns of governance in transnational development non-governmental organisation (NGO) coalitions. Governance is a term that has increased in usage during the last decade; it has been used in a variety of ways, by a variety of actors. Here, governance is broken down into two elements—governance as a purposive activity, and governance as an explanatory framework. This is an empirically grounded paper which focuses on the mecha…
Understanding governance and networks
The strategies that bind
This article examines NGOs as strategic organizations that form coalitions in order to influence other actors, particularly international financial institutions. It has three primary aims: to examine NGOs as strategic organizations; to look at a particular type of NGO network, the coalition, which unlike a network involves more value and commitment; and to assess the factors that contribute to their strategies such as changes to the NGO environme…
Networks as transnational agents of development
The term network has become a hallmark of the development industry. In principle networks have the potential to provide a more flexible and non‐hierarchical means of exchange and interaction that is also more innovative, responsive and dynamic, while overcoming spatial separation and providing scale economies. Although the label ‘networks’ currently pervades discourses about the relationships between organisations in development, there has been s…
Networks as transnational agents of development
The term network has become a hallmark of the development industry. In principle networks have the potential to provide a more flexible and non‐hierarchical means of exchange and interaction that is also more innovative, responsive and dynamic, while overcoming spatial separation and providing scale economies. Although the label ‘networks’ currently pervades discourses about the relationships between organisations in development, there has been s…
The strategies that bind
This article examines NGOs as strategic organizations that form coalitions in order to influence other actors, particularly international financial institutions. It has three primary aims: to examine NGOs as strategic organizations; to look at a particular type of NGO network, the coalition, which unlike a network involves more value and commitment; and to assess the factors that contribute to their strategies such as changes to the NGO environme…
Patterns of governance
This paper explores patterns of governance in transnational development non-governmental organisation (NGO) coalitions. Governance is a term that has increased in usage during the last decade; it has been used in a variety of ways, by a variety of actors. Here, governance is broken down into two elements—governance as a purposive activity, and governance as an explanatory framework. This is an empirically grounded paper which focuses on the mecha…
Understanding governance and networks
Knowing but not knowing
Drawing on case study material from Uganda and Nepal, this paper highlights the tension between what is ‘known’ and what is ‘done’ by practitioners working in the arena of conflict and development. It explores the forms of knowledge given conceptual and practical influence and the development interventions that are consequently sanctioned or sidelined. It argues that this approach opens conceptual and practical space in which to address the inter…
Networks as transnational agents of development
The term network has become a hallmark of the development industry. In principle networks have the potential to provide a more flexible and non‐hierarchical means of exchange and interaction that is also more innovative, responsive and dynamic, while overcoming spatial separation and providing scale economies. Although the label ‘networks’ currently pervades discourses about the relationships between organisations in development, there has been s…
Patterns of governance
This paper explores patterns of governance in transnational development non-governmental organisation (NGO) coalitions. Governance is a term that has increased in usage during the last decade; it has been used in a variety of ways, by a variety of actors. Here, governance is broken down into two elements—governance as a purposive activity, and governance as an explanatory framework. This is an empirically grounded paper which focuses on the mecha…
Understanding governance and networks
The strategies that bind
This article examines NGOs as strategic organizations that form coalitions in order to influence other actors, particularly international financial institutions. It has three primary aims: to examine NGOs as strategic organizations; to look at a particular type of NGO network, the coalition, which unlike a network involves more value and commitment; and to assess the factors that contribute to their strategies such as changes to the NGO environme…
Knowing but not knowing
Drawing on case study material from Uganda and Nepal, this paper highlights the tension between what is ‘known’ and what is ‘done’ by practitioners working in the arena of conflict and development. It explores the forms of knowledge given conceptual and practical influence and the development interventions that are consequently sanctioned or sidelined. It argues that this approach opens conceptual and practical space in which to address the inter…
The Janus Faces of a Middle Power
South Africa's rising international presence is undeniable. The country has recently joined the BRICS club of powerful emerging countries, is in the G20, is a member of IBSA (the India–Brazil–South Africa Dialogue Forum) and has aspirations to become a permanent member of a potentially reformed UN Security Council. Furthermore, South Africa has set up a new international development agency, a key marker of a middle power. And yet South Africa is …
Ingo Organisation and Strategy
In the previous chapters, we have seen how INGOs engage with their publics and how the cosmopolitan values they are based on lead to an ambivalence in how they work to become agents of change. An ambivalent cosmopolitanism stems from both the ways that publics view INGOs — that is to say the ways that the relationships between ‘developed’ and ‘developing’ have been constructed (partial responsibility for which belongs to INGOs) — and, as I will a…
International NGO Engagement, Advocacy, Activism
The world of international non-governmental organisations (INGOs) has dramatically changed during the last two decades. The author critically analyses the engagement of INGOs within the contemporary i
Political science (8 works) · International Development and Aid (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Public relations (4 works) · Politics (3 works) · Religion, Society, and Development (3 works) · Social science (3 works) · Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development (3 works)