...Of Masters and Slaves, or Frantz Fanon and the Ethico-Political Struggle for Non-Sexist Human Fraternity ...

... This chapter provides an organizational analysis of the Fraternity, a foreign-funded but locally founded and locally managed grassroots NGO that grew out of indigenous women’s collective action in the Presbyterian Church. Mayan women of the Fraternity mobilized within religious spheres to push...

... This chapter demonstrates that the Fraternity’s local identity informs women’s view of the Fraternity as not “just another MFI” but rather an extension of religious or ethnic networks. Women join for a greater variety of reasons than those who join Namaste and carry with them diverse...

... This chapter provides an ethnographic account of the inner workings of a police precinct in Bandung during the New Order. Based on fieldnotes, police reports, news accounts, and other sources, the chapter argues that precinct-level policing was dominated by fraternities: neopatrimonial networks...

... The Festival of Gran Poder (Great Power) involves the participation of more than fifty fraternities representing more than thirty thousand dancers from popular urban groups, middle-class sectors, and wealthy Aymara residents of the city of La Paz. The festival emerged in its current form...

... This chapter draws on the experiences of two women to introduce the book’s context, Guatemala, and its central comparison between Namaste and the Fraternity. Too often scholars and practitioners fixate on development interventions’ policies and outcomes and view development projects...