Marlies Glasius / David Lewis / Hakan Seckinelgin (eds.)

Exploring Civil Society

Political and Cultural Contexts
Herausgeber: Glasius, Marlies; Seckinelgin, Hakan; Lewis, David

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume explores how the idea of civil society has been translated in different cultural contexts and examines its impact on politics worldwide. Comparing and contrasting civil society in Latin America and Eastern Europe, Western Europe and the United States, Africa and South Asia, and the Middle East, the contributors show that there are multiple interpretations of the concept that depend more on the particular political configuration in different parts of the world than on cultural predilections. They also demonstrate that the power of civil society depends less on abstract definitions, and more on the extent to which it is grounded in the context of actual experiences from around the world. This book includes some of the biggest names in the area such as Mary Kaldor, Ronnie Lipschutz and Helmut Anheier.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. August 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 505g
• ISBN-13: 9780415325455
• ISBN-10: 0415325455
• Artikelnr.: 20978154

Autorenporträt

Marlies Glasius is a researcher at the Centre for Civil Society, London School of Economics and a Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Global Governance. David Lewis is Reader in Social Policy at the London School of Economics. Hakan Seckinelgin is a lecturer in International Social Policy, the Department of Social Policy, London School of Economics.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Introduction 1. Exploring Civil Society Internationally Part 2:
Setting out the Argument 2. Putting Civil Society in its Place 3. The
Problem with Civil Society or Putting Modern European History Back into
Contemporary Debate 4. Civil Society in Multilingual Polities 5. In the
Church of Civil Society Part 3: Owning the Concept: Latin America and
Eastern Europe 6. Civil society in Latin-America: Uncivil, liberal and
participatory models 7. Collective Action or Public Participation?: Civil
Society and the public sphere in post transition Latin America 8. Civil
Society in Eastern Europe: Growth without engagement Part 4: Western Europe
and the United States: Rediscovering the concept 9. Civil Society in the
United States of America: Prototype or exception? An essay on cultural
self-understanding 10. In Paris, the Global Place Is No Longer Saint
Germain des Prés: Civil society and the French debate 11. Western Europe:
Democratic civil society versus neo-liberalism Part 5: Asia: Rooted or
imported? 12. 'Old' and 'New' Civil Societies in Bangladesh 13. Seizing
Spaces, Challenging Marginalization and Claiming Voice: New trends in civil
society in China 14. Central Asian Fragmented Civil Society: Communal and
neo-liberal forms in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan Part 6: Africa: Civil
society as neo-colonialism? 15. On the evolution of civil society in
Nigeria 16. Civil Society in South Africa 17. Civil Society in West Africa:
Between discourse and reality Part 7: The Middle East: Civil society as
emancipation? 18. Civil Society in Iran: Past, present and the future 19.
Contractions of a Socio-cultural Reflex: Civil society in Turkey 20.
Unfulfilled Aspirations: Civil society in Palestine 1993-98 Part 8: The
Case for Global Civil Society 21. Globalization and Civil Society 22.
Global Civil Society and Global Governmentality