From Minnow to Mighty: A Hegemonic Analysis of Social Accountability in BRAC – The World’s Largest Development NGO

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From Minnow to Mighty: A Hegemonic Analysis of Social Accountability in BRAC – The World’s Largest Development NGO

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Auckland University of Technology

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Based on fieldwork in Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC), the world’s largest Non-Governmental Organization in Bangladesh, focusing on a Gramscian perspective of hege mony and Gramsci’s military metaphors, this paper examines whether and how BRAC’s cultural and moral leadership helped build a counter-hegemony through a ‘war of position’ and extended its functional accountability into social accountability. We found that BRAC endeavored to disseminate an ‘alternative’ hegemony and d...

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2022-08-15

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Ahmed, Z / Hopper, T / Wickramasinghe, D

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https://openrepository.aut.ac.nz/handle/10292/18514

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NGOs / BRAC / Bangladesh / Hegemony / Counter-hegemony / Cultural and moral leadership / Accountability

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