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8 - Sector Theorists Should Be Wary of the Nonprofit Industrial Complex

from Part II - Reflections and Refinements

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 January 2024

By
Ana Clarissa Rojas Durazo
Edited by
Eva Witesman  and
Curtis Child
Eva Witesman
Affiliation:
Brigham Young University, Utah
Curtis Child
Affiliation:
Brigham Young University, Utah
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Summary

This chapter critically considers the historic and contemporary entanglements of the nonprofit sector with the state and the market, and the implications of such entanglements on nonprofits, marginalized communities, and the possibility of social change. Interrogating what happens to the structural institutional form of the nonprofit when intertwined with the state and the economy in what some call the nonprofit industrial complex, Rojas assesses the fallout that leads to exacerbated policing and incarceration of women and communities of color, among other deleterious impacts. The work of naming these concerns and critiques is necessary for nonprofits to potentially become avenues for social transformation. The chapter concludes with practical interventions toward building organizations capable of creating more just futures.

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nonprofit industrial complexstate violencestate coercionnonprofitsmedical industrial complexsocial movementssocial changeWhite supremacy.
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Reimagining Nonprofits
Sector Theory in the Twenty-First Century
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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