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DESCRIPTION:Curating Sovereignty in Palestine: Voluntary Grassroots Organiz
 ations and Civil Society in the West Bank and East JerusalemThis presentat
 ion extends work on “NGO-ization” in the Middle East and Global South to e
 xamine “voluntary grassroots organizations (VGOs)”: groups that operate on
  a voluntary basis and position themselves outside of the formal NGO secto
 r and foreign aid system. Based on nine months of ethnographic research in
  the West Bank and East Jerusalem\, I examine how VGOs use heritage practi
 ces as a two-pronged challenge to the NGO-ization of Palestinian civil soc
 iety. Whereas NGO-ization depoliticized civil society\, VGOs resist depoli
 ticization by mobilizing Palestinians to resist the Israeli occupation. An
 d whereas NGO-ization professionalized civil society\, VGOs resist profess
 ionalization by building large volunteer bases\, emphasizing long-term pro
 cesses of citizen mobilization rather than short-term outcomes\, and remai
 ning grounded in local communities and accountable to local citizens. Thei
 r work reflects trends around the world in which civic actors turn to info
 rmal organizing in an era of growing disenchantment with traditional NGOs.
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SUMMARY:Curating Sovereignty in Palestine
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p></p><div><strong>Curating Sovereignty in Pa
 lestine: Voluntary Grassroots Organizations and Civil Society in the West 
 Bank and East Jerusalem</strong><br><br>This presentation extends work on 
 “NGO-ization” in the Middle East and Global South to examine “voluntary gr
 assroots organizations (VGOs)”: groups that operate on a voluntary basis a
 nd position themselves outside of the formal NGO sector and foreign aid sy
 stem. Based on nine months of ethnographic research in the West Bank and E
 ast Jerusalem\, I examine how VGOs use heritage practices as a two-pronged
  challenge to the NGO-ization of Palestinian civil society. Whereas NGO-iz
 ation depoliticized civil society\, VGOs resist depoliticization by mobili
 zing Palestinians to resist the Israeli occupation. And whereas NGO-izatio
 n professionalized civil society\, VGOs resist professionalization by buil
 ding large volunteer bases\, emphasizing long-term processes of citizen mo
 bilization rather than short-term outcomes\, and remaining grounded in loc
 al communities and accountable to local citizens. Their work reflects tren
 ds around the world in which civic actors turn to informal organizing in a
 n era of growing disenchantment with traditional NGOs.</div><p></p>
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