Kim Williams-Pulfer

Get Involved!

Stories of Bahamian Civil Society

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Produktbeschreibung

Using the Caribbean as a rich site of observance and concentrating on the island nation-state of The Bahamas, Get Involved! uncovers the hidden and under-documented practices of “philanthropy from below.” Williams-Pulfer shows the long history and continued significance of civil society and philanthropic engagement in The Bahamas, the circum-Caribbean, and the wider African Diaspora.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781978834453
• ISBN-10: 1978834454
• Artikelnr.: 69202876

Autorenporträt

KIM WILLIAMS-PULFER is an independent scholar and the principal consultant of KWP Research Strategies LLC, a research consulting firm focused on community development, the arts, public humanities, and nonprofit and philanthropic management, in Indianapolis, Indiana. 

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1        “There are ways to get involved…”  
Chapter 2        Submarine Narratives and Transnational Action       
Chapter 3        “And the People are Outside”: Historical Narratives of
Bahamian Civil Society
Chapter 4        Black Politics and Civil Society        
Chapter 5        Arts as Engagement and Identity
Chapter 6        Narratives of the Contemporary Lived Experience
Chapter 7        Entangled Time and The Future of Civil Society      
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index