You have the option of responding to one or both readings. Answer one of the questions below.
After you have answered one of the questions, feel free to share your opinion if you agree or disagree with James Petras and/or Mike Davis' critiques of NGOs.
Write in Times New Roman, double-spaced, 12 point font. Put your name on the quiz. Your response in total should not exceed two pages.
James Petras. "NGOs: In the Service of Imperialism" Journal of Contemporary Asia Vol. 29, No. 4 (1999), 429-440.
Mike Davis. "Illusions of Self-Help" Planet of Slums (New York: Verso, 2007), 70-94.
1. According to James Petras and/or Mike Davis, how do NGOs undermine endogenous social movements and social transformation for poor and working-class people in developing societies?
2. According to James Petras and/or Mike Davis, how are NGOs complicit in sustaining the Global North's neoliberal project for developing societies?