NGOs have become more powerful than states as privatized feminist agents

Evidence

In bringing together case studies that explore the eviction of Muslims from political community, I hope to stress the various paths through which we are drawn into the project of empire. Feminist activists, no less than soldiers at Abu Ghraib, are invited to defend country and civilization and to join in the creation of a world that requires camps. What these chapters show is that no one stands outside of empire. — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 65 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: NGOs function as imperial weapons in feminist guise in the Afghan war — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 311; NGOs function as corporate-funded missionaries serving imperial warfare; Human rights NGOs absorbed the neoliberal civil-society-versus-coercive-state dichotomy — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 60 (+8 more)

Broader Connections

• Feminist activists are as implicated in empire as soldiers are #complicates (0.77) — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 65