TY - JOUR A1 - Kleibl, Tanja A1 - Munck, Ronaldo T1 - NGOs and the Political Economy of Development: An Irish Perspective JF - Development Studies Association Ireland (DSAI) (Discussion Paper) N2 - In Ireland the role of development NGOs is rarely interrogated. There is, rather, a shared discourse across the government, NGO and academic sectors which does not really encourage critical enquiry. Yet, in light of the recent Oxfam and Goal scandals, we must ask, as critical-engaged intellectuals, if development NGOs are now ‘part of the problem’ or ‘part of the solution’ to use a 1960s phrase. After a brief context- setting section Why Now? which discusses recent events around the NGOs, we start our enquiry with a set of Deconstructions of relevant terms such as ‘development’, ‘civil society’, ‘human rights’ and the term ‘NGO’ itself, too often referred to in reverential or uncritical ways in the NGO literature and more widely. We then move on to consider whether it is a case of Irish exceptionalism which explains why the political economy of development and NGOs debate in Ireland seems so insulated from international debates. Finally, we open up a Discussion which tries to pose some of the main matters arising from our enquiry. We understand our discussion might seem challenging to some, but we think we are right to pose the issues and hope we might spark an open debate on whether NGOs are part of the solution or, rather, part of the problem. This debate is too important to be left to the NGOs alone. Y1 - 2018 UR - https://www.dsaireland.org/updates/latest/ngos-and-the-political-economy-of-development-an-i/ ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kleibl, Tanja A1 - Lutz, Ronald T1 - Verärgerte Geister und Götter? Naturkatastrophen, Krisen, Hexerei und religiöse Attacken in Mosambik JF - Afrika Süd Y1 - 2019 VL - 48 IS - 6 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kleibl, Tanja A1 - Munck, Ronaldo T1 - Civil society in Mozambique: NGOs, religion, politics and witchcraft JF - Third World Quarterly N2 - Our aim is to problematise the dominant discourses and practices around civil society from a Southern perspective. We first examine critically, from a broadly Gramscian perspective, the way in which the concept of civil society has been deployed in development discourse. This highlights its highly normative and North-centric epistemology and perspectives. We also find it to be highly restrictive in a post-colonial Southern context insofar as it reads out much of the grassroots social interaction, deemed ‘uncivil’ and thus not part of duly recognised civil society. This is followed by a brief overview of some recent debates around civil society in Africa which emphasise the complexity of civil society and turn our attention to some of the broader issues surrounding state-society relations, democracy and representation in a Third World context, exemplified through our case study research in Mozambique, Inhassunge district (Zambézia Province). The privileging of Western-type Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) as drivers of democracy and participatory development in Mozambique have considerable implications for current debates around good governance, civil society strengthening and social accountability programmes and strategies. Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2016.1217738 VL - 38 IS - 1 SP - 203 EP - 218 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kleibl, Tanja T1 - InselbewohnerInnen droht Vertreibung wegen Rohstoffabbau: VerliererInnen der Globalisierung JF - Mosambik-Rundbrief, Koordinationskreis Mosambik Y1 - 2015 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kleibl, Tanja A1 - Material, Gaudêncio A1 - Matinada, Rude A1 - Piletiche, José A1 - Munck, Ronaldo T1 - Sociedade civil, uma construção contextualizada na sociedade e situação politica: O caso de Moçambique JF - O Papel da Universidade no Processo de Pacificação, Reconciliação, Democratização e Desenvolvimento da Sociedade. Revista Electrónica de Investigação e Desenvolvimento (REID) da UCM JF - Die Rolle der Universität im Prozess der Befriedung, Versöhnung, Demokratisierung und Entwicklung der Gesellschaft. Elektronische Zeitschrift für Forschung und Entwicklung (REID) der UCM T2 - Die Zivilgesellschaft, eine Konstruktion im Kontext der Gesellschaft und der politischen Situation: Der Fall Mosambik Y1 - 2015 IS - 5 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kleibl, Tanja A1 - Munck, Ronaldo T1 - Interrogating Civil Society: A View from Mozambique JF - Development Studies Association Ireland (DSAI) (Discussion Paper) N2 - This paper seeks to problematize the dominant discourse and practice around civil society from a Southern perspective. We first critically examine the way in which the concept of civil society has been deployed in development discourse. This highlights its highly normative and North-centric epistemology and perspectives. We also find it to be highly restrictive in a Southern context insofar as it reads out much of the grassroots social interaction deemed ‘uncivil’ and thus not part of civil society. Subsequent sections introduce a historical analysis of civil society development and a preliminary mapping of current civil society in Mozambique which begins to set out a more complex understanding of civil society, a concept sometimes reduced to the world of the NGO’s. This is followed by a report on a recent roundtable discussion with civil society actors in Mozambique that sparked our interest in this theme. This discussion also articulates a more complex and conflictual understanding of civil society than that held by many international NGO’s for example. Finally, we discuss some of the matters arising from our movement from the abstract (the deconstruction of the concept of civil society) to the concrete (our conversations with a range of civil society actors). This work is the start of a broad longer term project with partners in Mozambique seeking to map and thus better understand the complexity of civil society in a country widely seen as test case for development strategies. Y1 - 2014 UR - https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Tanja-Kleibl-3/publication/281209634_Interrogating_Civil_Society_A_View_from_Mozambique/links/55db818808aec156b9afecc3/Interrogating-Civil-Society-A-View-from-Mozambique.pdf VL - 2 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kleibl, Tanja T1 - Good Governance, Globalisierung und Partizipation: Eine Debatte um Funktion der Zivilgesellschaft und Wirkung von NGOs JF - Blickpunkt Zukunft Y1 - 2014 PB - Vereinigung Deutscher Wissenschaftler e.V. (VDW) ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kleibl, Tanja T1 - Demonstrating solidarity and supporting protection: The roles and responsibilities of INGOs in enabling civil society space JF - INTRAC newsletter ONTRAC Y1 - 2012 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kleibl, Tanja ED - Hayes, Lucy ED - Pereira, Javier T1 - Eurodad, Turning the tables aid and accountability under the Paris Framework JF - Syntheses Report Y1 - 2008 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kleibl, Tanja A1 - Soeftestad, Lars T. A1 - Alinon, Koffi A1 - Dié, Lakhsara Mint A1 - Flyman, Michael Vosa T1 - Language, culture and communication in development cooperation. On the role of ICTs in networking online communities of practice JF - CBNRM Net Papers N2 - Globalization results in the exclusion and marginalization of diverse categories of stakeholders at the local level in developing countries, while decentralization leads to integration and participation of some of these stakeholders. In this evolving process, increasingly facilitated by Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), the role of language and literacy, and their relationship with culture, have been given scant attention. ICTs facilitate language marginalization and homogenization, while it is an open question whether they contribute to language growth and survival. Within the context of development cooperation and natural resource management, the Community-Based Natural Resource Management Network (CBNRM Net), which serves the global CBNRM community of practice, uses ICTs to communicate with its global membership. CBNRM Net is concerned with how globalization and decentralization is influencing traditional and modern CBNRM practices. This includes how the present massive use of ICTs to facilitate communication, relying largely on English, is affecting literacy and language in the area of traditional knowledge on CBNRM. The paper presents a framework for analyzing use of language, and impacts on culture, in online communication and networking. Y1 - 2004 UR - https://www.academia.edu/7929983/Language_Culture_and_Communication_in_Development_Cooperation_On_the_Role_of_ICTs_in_Networking_Online_Communities_of_Practice IS - 6 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kleibl, Tanja T1 - Die Wodaabe in Niger Y1 - 1998 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kleibl, Tanja A1 - Xypolytas, Nikos T1 - Oppression or liberation? The function of social work in migration management N2 - Drawing on the work of Antonio Gramsci and liberation scholars from Latin America, this article examines the role of social work, as both an academic discipline and a practice, in the context of the recent refugee crisis. This role mirrors the historical development of social work and is further highlighted by recent empirical studies of refugee experiences on Greek islands. The authors call for an active political coalition between social work practitioners and refugees, with the aim of empowering the latter in their quest for liberation from the regime of European refugee management. N2 - Auf der Grundlage der Arbeiten von Antonio Gramsci und lateinamerikanischen Befreiungstheoretiker:innen untersucht der Artikel die Rolle der Sozialen Arbeit, sowohl als akademische Disziplin als auch als Praxis, im Zusammenhang mit der jüngsten Flüchtlingskrise. Diese Rolle spiegelt die historische Entwicklung der Sozialen Arbeit wider und wird anhand der jüngsten empirischen Erfahrungen mit Geflüchteten auf den griechischen Inseln weiter verdeutlicht. Die Autor:innen rufen zu einer aktiven politischen Koalition zwischen Sozialarbeiter:innen und Geflüchteten auf, mit dem Ziel, letztere in ihrem Streben nach Befreiung vom Regime des europäischen Flüchtlingsmanagements zu stärken. Y1 - 2022 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:863-opus-56389 UR - https://regener-online.de/journalcco/2022_2/pdf/kleibl-xypolytas2022.pdf N1 - © 2022 by verlag irena regener berlin VL - 21 IS - 2 PB - Regener ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Noyoo, Ndangwa A1 - Kleibl, Tanja A1 - Madew, Melinda A1 - Matela, Minenhle A1 - Lutz, Ronald A1 - Boryczko, Marcin T1 - Will the Welcome ever Run Dry? Interrogating the Hierarchy of Human Categories - The Case of Ukrainian Refugees in Europe JF - Quarterly on Refugee Problems N2 - This review summarises and chronicles inputs from several speakers who attended a conference titled: Will the Welcome ever Run Dry?: Interrogating the Hierarchy of Human Categories – The Case of Ukrainian Refugees in Europe. The conference interrogated the refugee crisis which had been precipitated by Russia’s unprovoked war against Ukraine. It was organised by Tanja Kleibl, Melinda Madew, Minenhle Matela, Ronald Lutz and Ndangwa Noyoo and held at the University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt on 17 March 2022. The conference participants were social work academics, practitioners, students and activists, and it was delivered in a blended mode. Crucially, it was meant to be a call to action to the social work profession around the world, especially in Europe. Also, the organisers wanted to cast a sharp light on the refugee crisis from a social work perspective and highlight the discrimination which was associated with this phenomenon. Indeed, media reports and other accounts had identified this disturbing trend, whereby African and non-European students from developing countries, who were equally fleeing the war zone with Ukrainians, were ill-treated and discriminated against by Ukrainian and Polish security forces. These officials allegedly allowed only Ukrainians and European-looking people to cross the border (Chebil, 2022; Pronczuk et al., 2022). Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.57947/qrp.v61i1.19 VL - 61 IS - 1 SP - 93 EP - 100 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kleibl, Tanja A1 - Neureither, F. T1 - Soziale Arbeit des Südens JF - Socialnet Lexikon N2 - Im Globalen Süden stellen sich immer wieder neue und andere Themen und soziale Problemlagen als im Globalen Norden. Aufgrund postkolonialer Entwicklungen ergeben sich Fragestellungen, die zum einen zur Anerkennung von Differenz und zum anderen zum Grenzdenken einladen. Innerhalb dieser Dynamik stellen sich insbesondere in Europa immer wieder neue ethische Fragestellungen zum Umgang mit Kolonialismus und Neokolonialismus und der Externalisierung von Folgen des westlichen, industrialisierten Entwicklungsmodels. In den Diskursen einer Sozialarbeit des Südens spielen folgende Kontexte eine essenzielle Rolle: - die Sichtbarmachung der kolonialen Folgen sowie der Konflikte und Widersprüche, der Ausbeutung und der Ausgrenzung in den nachkolonialen Gesellschaften, die auf ihre Ursprünge zurückgeführt werden - der genuin politische Anspruch zur Veränderbarkeit der Welt durch Akteur*innen, seien dies Bewegungen, Organisationen, Regierungen oder Menschen in ihren sozialen Beziehungen - die Bestrebungen der Sozialen Arbeit im Süden über Prozesse der Indigenisierung und Authentisierung Eigenständigkeit zu erlangen, um sich aus der kolonialen Umklammerung des Nordens zu lösen. Darin gewinnt die Debatte um indigenes, lokales und „pluriversales“ Wissen, als einem von den Prinzipen rationaler Vernunft unterschiedenem Wissenssystem, das gleichwohl auf Erfahrung und Diversität basiert, eine zentrale Bedeutung. Die Sozialarbeit des Südens beinhaltet und fokussiert immer auch einen politischen Anspruch und verfügt über eigene Methoden. Y1 - 2021 UR - https://www.socialnet.de/lexikon/Soziale-Arbeit-des-Suedens PB - socialnet CY - Bonn ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kleibl, Tanja A1 - Lutz, Ronald T1 - Internationale Soziale Arbeit neu denken: Zur Verschärfung Globaler Ungleichheit durch COVID-19 JF - Sozial Extra N2 - Covid-19 hat sich über die ganze Welt ausbreitet und kann sie an den Rand eines ökonomischen und politischen Kollapses führen. Das Virus trifft zwar alle, doch mit Unterschieden. Die Krankheit wird zum einen die sozialen Probleme in den reichen Gesellschaften des Nordens verändern und auch vergrößern, doch insbesondere in den Ländern des Globalen Südens kann der Ausbruch in seinen ökonomischen und sozialen Folgen verheerend sein. Kann der Globale Norden noch eindämmende und die Folgen abfedernde Maßnahmen etablieren, so schlagen die Auswirkungen im Globalen Süden voll durch. In diesen Gesellschaften sind verheerende Folgen zu erwarten, die Armut, Elend, Hunger und Migrationsbewegungen intensivieren werden. Dadurch wird aber auch die Globale Ungleichheit zwischen den Nationen größer. In dieser Krise wäre Solidarität über nationale Grenzen hinweg gefragt; doch genau diese ist kaum erkennbar. Die Internationale Soziale Arbeit ist aufgefordert, ihre Ausrichtung neu zu definieren. Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s12054-020-00289-0 VL - 44 IS - 4 SP - 247 EP - 251 ER -