Civil Society: Between Concepts and Empirical Grounds (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Egholm, Liv; Kaspersen, Lars Bo

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book reveals the contextual nature of the process through which civil society develops, presenting studies that analyse the manner in which civil society has been practised and transformed over time, and developing a novel theoretical framework to shed new light on familiar questions pertaining to its boundaries and spaces of action.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. November 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000246377
• Artikelnr.: 60467773

Autorenporträt

Liv Egholm is Associate Professor in the Department of Management, Politics & Philosophy at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. Lars Bo Kaspersen is Professor in the Department of Management, Politics & Philosophy at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. He is the co-editor of Does War Make States? Investigations of Charles Tilly's Historical Sociology and the author of Anthony Giddens: An Introduction to a Social Theorist.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Setting the Scene; 1. A Processual-relational Approach to Civil
Society; 2. The Modern Conceptual History of Civil Society; 3. The "Long
History" of Civil Society in Denmark and Western Europe: Civil Society - In
the Shadow of the State (Eighteenth to the Twenty-first Century); 4.
Different States, Different Shadows: The Particular Exceptionalism of Civil
Society in the United States; Part 2: The Emergence of the Danish Civil
Society; 5. Civil Society and the Civilizing Mission; 6. Christianity,
State, and Voluntarism: Protestant Processes of Privatization and
Deprivatization; 7. Philanthropy as the Co-creator of the Welfare State; 8.
Past and Present Futures of Democracy: The Danish Peasants' Movement as
Democracy Instigator and Cultural Mythologizer; 9. Eclipsed by the Welfare
State: Understanding the Rise and Decline of the Danish Workers'
Cooperation, 1871-2000; 10. Civil Society in the Shadow of the Danish
Welfare State; 11. Civic Action as Temporal Process-in-Relations: Towards
an Events-Based Approach; Part 3: Epilogue; 12. Civil Society as Process
and Valuation