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Critical Perspectives on Nonprofit Organizing and Voluntary Action I: Overview of the Field

Tue, July 16, 12:00 to 1:30pm, TBA

Session Submission Type: Panel

Abstract

This panel includes chapters from the Handbook of Critical Perspectives on Nonprofit Organizing and Voluntary Action — soon to be published by Edward Elgar — the first major survey of critical scholarship within the field of nonprofit organizing and voluntary action. This is one of two panels being proposed for ISTR and includes chapters from Part I of the volume providing an overview of the field and a review of critical civil society research. While scholars in the field have been doing critical work for some time as Coule, Dodge and Eikenberry (2022) show in their review of this work, such a volume is long overdue and will provide essential and much needed counterarguments and alternative perspectives to traditional, often managerialist and neoliberal approaches that have dominated the literature in recent decades. The publication of this volume is essential during the contemporary moment of democratic backsliding, authoritarian rule, and accelerated restriction of rights of those who are marginalized, which is threatening in so many ways to nonprofit and voluntary action the world over. The chapters in this volume could be seen, in effect, as a call to action for nonprofit and voluntary action scholars to interrogate these issues, particularly as they impact those at the margins, critically exploring the role of nonprofit organizations and voluntary action in these spaces. We have brought together in this volume both leading and emerging critical scholars in the nonprofit and voluntary action field who explore the major issues facing the field from a variety of critical lenses and present them as ways to propel the field toward more equitable and just ends.

A new or renewed interest in critical perspectives in the field of nonprofit organizing and voluntary action has taken place in recent years; what Dean and Wiley (2022) describe as a “critical turn,” which “has come from a view of the subject area as failing to examine political, systemic and structural issues that may be shaping organisations and behaviours…” (p. 11). Coule, Dodge and Eikenberry (2022) show that in a way this may be a critical “return” as critical research appeared to be more prevalent in the 1970s and dipped as the field has increasingly strived to be seen as more ‘scientific’ or ‘legitimate’ as a social science; however, now there appears to be a resurgence, as evidenced by the growth of critical work in recent years and an increase in scholarly works published in leading third sector journals, especially Voluntas.

Included in the volume are the discernable yet often overlapping themes of critical work that have developed within our field and explored in the volume:

• Postcolonial Theory and Epistemologies of the South
• Critical Race Theories
• Critical Feminist Theories
• Queer Theory
• Critical Disability Theory
• Post-Structural Theories
• Critical Management Studies

The volume concludes with a call for imagining better futures for humans and nonhumans alike, including the voices of all.

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