Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Development, Management, and Civil Society -- from a Critical Perspective -- Colonial Development, Colonial Management -- Modernization Theory, Development, Management -- Dependency Theory and an Alternative Management -- High Management, the Short Reign of Shared Common Sense -- The Washington Consensus and Financialization of Management -- Moving Past the Washington Consensus -- Conclusion: Possibilities of Emancipation.

"Through a series of interpretive histories, this book presents a critical history of management studies and development studies and shows the ways their twinned theories situated technocrats as necessary arbiters in regimes of accumulation. It concludes with a discussion of alternative approaches to theorizing management and development studies and their implications for productive forms of politics relevant to our contemporary moment. Against NGOs fills a gap within the literature of management and development studies through a discussion of their historical interconnections and shared themes. It discusses and draws connections between these disciplines through chapters that show how theories of management and development were shaped by their historical period, and responded to pressures and demands of that particular moment"-- Provided by publisher.