ABSTRACT

Most of the literature and other publications on CBOs assume that they speak the voices and pursue the interests of the communities they claim to represent. While acknowledging the transformative work of some of them, recent studies have portrayed CBOs as forces of social control and poverty management. This paper reports the findings of a study examining the trajectory of CBOs in Pilsen, a Latino community in Chicago, through a historical-genealogical approach that helps identify the interests they have advocated across time and their shift from politics of resistance and advocacy to coalition politics of cooperation to their absorption into the agenda of a neoliberal administration. Guided by insights from Gramsci and Foucault, this study argues that CBOs speak different voices and advance different interests across time.

摘要

大多数关于 CBO 的文献和其他出版物都假设 CBO 会发声并追求他们声称代表的社区的利益。在承认其中一些人的变革性工作的同时，最近的研究将 CBO 描述为社会控制和贫困管理的力量。本文报告了一项研究的结果，该研究通过历史谱系方法检查了芝加哥拉丁裔社区比尔森的 CBO 的发展轨迹，该方法有助于确定他们跨越时间所倡导的利益以及他们从抵抗和倡导政治向联盟政治的转变合作以将其吸收到新自由主义政府的议程中。本研究以葛兰西和福柯的见解为指导，认为 CBO 会随着时间的推移发出不同的声音并推动不同的利益。