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Civil Society, Associations and Urban Places

Author : Boudien de Vries
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351951106
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book Civil Society, Associations and Urban Places written by Boudien de Vries and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years the concept of 'civil society' has become central to the historian's understanding of class, cultural and political power in the nineteenth-century town and city. Increasingly clubs and voluntary societies have been regarded as an important step in the formation of formal political parties, particularly for the working and middle classes. The result of this is the assertion that the more associations existing in a particular society, the deeper democracy becomes entrenched. In order to test this hypothesis, this volume brings together essays by an international group of urban historians who examine the construction of civil society from associational activity in the urban place. From their studies, it soon becomes clear that such simple propositions do not adequately reflect the dynamics of nineteenth-century urban society and politics. Urban associations were ideological in purpose and deliberately discriminatory and as such set the boundaries of civil society. Thus competing and segmented associations were not only an indication of pluralism and strength, but also highlighted a fundamental weakness when faced down by the interests of the state. Through a wide array of urban associations in a broad range of settings, comprising Austria and Bratislava, France and Italy, the Netherlands, Austro-Hungary, England, Scotland and the US, this volume reflects on the construction of class, nation and culture in the associations of the nineteenth-century urban place. In so doing it shows that a deep and interlocking civil society does not automatically lead to a rise in democratic activity. Expansion of the networks of urban association could equally result in greater subdivision and to the fragmentation and isolation of certain groups. Partition as much as coherence is our understanding of civil society and associations in the nineteenth-century urban place.

Organizing Civil Society

Author : Philip D. Oxhorn
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271043423
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Organizing Civil Society written by Philip D. Oxhorn and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Multilevel Democracy

Author : Jefferey M. Sellers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108427782
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Multilevel Democracy written by Jefferey M. Sellers and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-05 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores ways to make democracy work better, with particular focus on the integral role of local institutions.

Civil Society in Uncivil Places

Author : Saubhagya Shah
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Civil Society in Uncivil Places written by Saubhagya Shah and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This monograph analyzes the role of civil society in the massive political mobilization and upheavals of 2006 in Nepal that swept away King Gyanendra's direct rule and dramatically altered the structure and character of the Nepali state and politics. Although the opposition had become successful due to a strategic alliance between the seven parliamentary parties and the Maoist rebels, civil society was catapulted into prominence during the historic protests as a result of national and international activities in opposition to the king's government. This process offers new insights into the role of civil society in the developing world. By focusing on the momentous events of the nineteen-day general strike from April 6-24, 2006, that brought down the 400-year-old Nepali royal dynasty, the study highlights the implications of civil society action within the larger political arena involving conventional actors such as political parties, trade unions, armed revels, and foreign actors. he detailed examination of civil society's involvement in Nepali regime change sheds light on four important themes in the study of civil society. The first relates to a clear distinction between civil society as a spontaneous philosophical and associational form in the West and its mimetic articulation in the developing. The second addresses the nature of the relationship between civil society and political society and the way the former generates its moral authority and efficacy based on claims to universal reason, knowledge, and techniques of polymorphous power. The third theme explores the connection between the ideological and material basis of civil society and distinguishes between its autonomous Western origin and the recent growth in the developing world. Finally, civil society is examined in the international area: the example of Nepal reveals ways in which civil societies in the developing world are burgeoning as alternative policy instruments in interstate relations"--P. [4] of cover.

Knowledge and Civil Society

Author : Johannes Glückler
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030711471
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Knowledge and Civil Society written by Johannes Glückler and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-12-08 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book focuses on the role of civil society in the creation, dissemination, and interpretation of knowledge in geographical contexts. It offers original, interdisciplinary and counterintuitive perspectives on civil society. The book includes reflections on civil and uncivil society, the role of civil society as a change agent, and on civil society perspectives of undone science. Conceptual approaches go beyond the tripartite division of public, private and civic sectors to propose new frameworks of civic networks and philanthropic fields, which take an inclusive view of the connectivity of civic agency across sectors. This includes relational analyses of epistemic power in civic knowledge networks as well as of regional giving and philanthropy. The original empirical case studies examine traditional forms of civic engagement, such as the German landwomen’s associations, as well as novel types of organizations, such as giving circles and time banks in their geographical context. The book also offers insider reflections on doing civil society, such as the cases of the Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong, epistemic activism in the United States, and the #FeesMustFall movement in South Africa.

Civil Society

Author : Elizabeth Dunn
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134827083
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book Civil Society written by Elizabeth Dunn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-03-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between kinship ties on the one hand and the state on the other, human beings experience a diversity of social relationships and groupings which in modern western thought have come to be gathered under the label 'civil society'. A liberal-individualist model of civil society has become fashionable in recent years, but what can such a term mean in the late twentieth century? Civil Society argues that civil society should not be studied as a separate, 'private' realm clearly separated in opposition to the state; nor should it be confined to the institutions of the 'voluntary' or 'non-governmental' sector. A broader understanding of civil society involves the investigation of everyday social practices, often elusive power relations and the shared moralities that hold communities together. By drawing on case materials from a range of contemporary societies, including the US, Britain, four of the former Communist countries of Eastern Europe, Turkey and the Middle and Far East, Civil Society demonstrates what anthropology contributes to debates taking place throughout the social sciences; adding up to an exciting renewal of the agenda for political anthropology.

Building a Civil Society

Author : Steven C. Soper
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442645032
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book Building a Civil Society written by Steven C. Soper and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most passionate advocates of Italy's unification in the nineteenth century possessed an almost limitless faith in the benefits of civic association. They also shared a common concern: once Italian unification was achieved and various freedoms were established, would ordinary Italians naturally become responsible, progressive citizens especially after centuries of foreign rule, regional division, and economic decline? Most unification advocates doubted that their fellow citizens could form a modern, progressive civil society on their own, or that a vibrant association life would develop from the ground up. Building a Civil Society is the first book-length English-language study of associational life in nineteenth-century Italy. Drawing on extensive research in published and unpublished documents including associational records, newspapers, periodicals, government documents, guidebooks, exhibition catalogues, memoirs, and private letters Steven C. Soper provides a complex account of Italian liberalism during Europe's age of association. His study also raises important questions about the role that associations play in emerging democracies.

The Voluntary City

Author : David T Beito
Publisher : Independent Institute
ISBN 13 : 1598132326
Total Pages : 658 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (981 download)

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Download or read book The Voluntary City written by David T Beito and published by Independent Institute. This book was released on 2015-11-23 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assembling a rich history and analysis of large-scale, private and voluntary, community-based provision of social services, urban infrastructure, and community governance, this book provides suggestions on how to restore the vitality of city life. Historically, the city was considered a center of commerce, knowledge, and culture, a haven for safety and a place of opportunity. Today, however, cities are widely viewed as centers for crime, homelessness, drug wars, business failure, impoverishment, transit gridlock, illiteracy, pollution, unemployment, and other social ills. In many cities, government increasingly dominates life, consuming vast resources to cater to special-interest groups. This book reveals how the process of providing local public goods through the dynamism of freely competitive, market-based entrepreneurship is unmatched in renewing communities and strengthening the bonds of civil society.

Urban Sustainability Transitions

Author : Niki Frantzeskaki
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351855956
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)

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Download or read book Urban Sustainability Transitions written by Niki Frantzeskaki and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-06-14 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world’s population is currently undergoing a significant transition towards urbanisation, with the UN expecting that 70% of people globally will live in cities by 2050. Urbanisation has multiple political, cultural, environmental and economic dimensions that profoundly influence social development and innovation. This fundamental long-term transformation will involve the realignment of urban society’s technologies and infrastructures, culture and lifestyles, as well as governance and institutional frameworks. Such structural systemic realignments can be referred to as urban sustainability transitions: fundamental and structural changes in urban systems through which persistent societal challenges are addressed, such as shifts towards urban farming, renewable decentralised energy systems, and social economies. This book provides new insights into how sustainability transitions unfold in different types of cities across the world and explores possible strategies for governing urban transitions, emphasising the co-evolution of material and institutional transformations in socio-technical and socio-ecological systems. With case studies of mega-cities such as Seoul, Tokyo, New York and Adelaide, medium-sized cities such as Copenhagen, Cape Town and Portland, and nonmetropolitan cities such as Freiburg, Ghent and Brighton, the book provides an opportunity to reflect upon the comparability and transferability of theoretical/conceptual constructs and governance approaches across geographical contexts. Urban Sustainability Transitions is key reading for students and scholars working in Environmental Sciences, Geography, Urban Studies, Urban Policy and Planning.

Planting Empire, Cultivating Subjects

Author : Lynn Hollen Lees
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107038405
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Planting Empire, Cultivating Subjects written by Lynn Hollen Lees and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-12-21 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an innovative study of how British Colonial rule and society in Malayan towns and plantations transformed immigrants into British subjects.

Handbook of Cities and Networks

Author : Neal, Zachary P.
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 178811471X
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (881 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Cities and Networks written by Neal, Zachary P. and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2021-07-31 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook of Cities and Networks provides a cutting-edge overview of research on how economic, social and transportation networks affect processes both in and between cities. Exploring the ways in which cities connect and intertwine, it offers a varied set of collaborations, highlighting different theoretical, historical and methodological perspectives.

Challenges to Civil Society

Author :
Publisher : Cambria Press
ISBN 13 : 1621969665
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (219 download)

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Download or read book Challenges to Civil Society written by and published by Cambria Press. This book was released on with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Clubbing Together

Author : Tanja Bueltmann
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1781381356
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (813 download)

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Download or read book Clubbing Together written by Tanja Bueltmann and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clubbing Together offers the first global study of Scottish ethnic associationalism, exploring transnationally the evolution and role of Scottish clubs and societies.

Claiming the Streets

Author : Paul O'Leary
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 1783162740
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (831 download)

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Download or read book Claiming the Streets written by Paul O'Leary and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2012-10-15 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Street processions were a defining feature of life in the Victorian town. They were diverse in character and took place regularly throughout the year in all towns. They provided opportunities for men and women to display themselves in public, carrying banners and flags and accompanied by musical bands. Much of the history of nineteenth-century Wales has been written around political demonstrations and revolt, but this book examines how urban communities in Victorian Wales created inclusive civic identities by using the streets for peaceful processions.

Cosmo Innes and the Defence of Scotland's Past c. 1825-1875

Author : Richard A. Marsden
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317159152
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Cosmo Innes and the Defence of Scotland's Past c. 1825-1875 written by Richard A. Marsden and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, Scotland's history is frequently associated with the clarion call of political nationalism. However, in the nineteenth century the influence of history on Scottish national identity was far more ambiguous. How, then, did ideas about the past shape Scottish identity in a period when union with England was all but unquestioned? The activities of the antiquary Cosmo Innes (1798-1874) help us to address this question. Innes was a prolific editor of medieval and early modern documents relating to Scotland's parliament, legal system, burghs, universities, aristocratic families and pre-Reformation church. Yet unlike scholars today, he saw that editorial role in interventionist terms. His source editions were artificial constructs that powerfully articulated his worldview and agendas: emphasising Enlightenment-inspired narratives of social progress and institutional development. At the same time they used manuscript facsimiles and images of medieval architecture to foreground a romantic concern for the texture of past lives. Innes operated within an elite associational culture which gave him access to the leading intellectuals and politicians of the day. His representations of Scottish history therefore had significant influence and were put to work as commentaries on some of the major debates which exorcised Scotland's intelligentsia across the middle decades of the century. This analysis of Innes's work with sources, set within the intellectual context of the time and against the antiquarian activities of his contemporaries, provides a window onto the ways in which the 'national past' was perceived in Scotland during the nineteenth century. This allows us to explore how historical thinkers negotiated the apparent dichotomies between Enlightenment and Romanticism, whilst at the same time enabling a re-examination of prevailing assumptions about Scotland's supposed failure to maintain a viable national consciousness in the later 1800s.

Beyond Civil Society

Author : Sonia E. Alvarez
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822373351
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Beyond Civil Society written by Sonia E. Alvarez and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-18 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors to Beyond Civil Society argue that the conventional distinction between civic and uncivic protest, and between activism in institutions and in the streets, does not accurately describe the complex interactions of forms and locations of activism characteristic of twenty-first-century Latin America. They show that most contemporary political activism in the region relies upon both confrontational collective action and civic participation at different moments. Operating within fluid, dynamic, and heterogeneous fields of contestation, activists have not been contained by governments or conventional political categories, but rather have overflowed their boundaries, opening new democratic spaces or extending existing ones in the process. These essays offer fresh insight into how the politics of activism, participation, and protest are manifest in Latin America today while providing a new conceptual language and an interpretive framework for examining issues that are critical for the future of the region and beyond. Contributors. Sonia E. Alvarez, Kiran Asher, Leonardo Avritzer, Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Andrea Cornwall, Graciela DiMarco, Arturo Escobar, Raphael Hoetmer, Benjamin Junge, Luis E. Lander, Agustín Laó-Montes, Margarita López Maya, José Antonio Lucero, Graciela Monteagudo, Amalia Pallares, Jeffrey W. Rubin, Ana Claudia Teixeira, Millie Thayer

NGOs, Civil Society, and the Public Sphere

Author : Sabine Lang
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107024994
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book NGOs, Civil Society, and the Public Sphere written by Sabine Lang and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates how nongovernmental organizations can become stronger advocates for citizens and better representatives of their interests. Sabine Lang analyzes the choices that NGOs face in their work for policy change between working in institutional settings and practicing public advocacy that incorporates constituents' voices.