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The Civil Sphere

Author : Jeffrey C. Alexander
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199708959
Total Pages : 814 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book The Civil Sphere written by Jeffrey C. Alexander and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-09-08 with total page 814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What binds societies together and how can these social orders be structured in a fair way? Jeffrey C. Alexander's masterful work, The Civil Sphere, addresses this central paradox of modern life. Feelings for others--the solidarity that is ignored or underplayed by theories of power or self-interest--are at the heart of this novel inquiry into the meeting place between normative theories of what we think we should do and empirical studies of who we actually are. Solidarity, Alexander demonstrates, creates inclusive and exclusive social structures and shows how they can be repaired. It is not perfect, it is not absolute, and the horrors which occur in its lapses have been seen all too frequently in the forms of discrimination, genocide, and war. Despite its worldly flaws and contradictions, however, solidarity and the project of civil society remain our best hope: the antidote to every divisive institution, every unfair distribution, every abusive and dominating hierarchy. This grand, sweeping statement and rigorous empirical investigation is a major contribution to our thinking about the real but ideal world in which we all reside.

The Civil Sphere in Latin America

Author : Jeffrey C. Alexander
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110860949X
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book The Civil Sphere in Latin America written by Jeffrey C. Alexander and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-03 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social thinkers have criticized Latin American development as incomplete, backward, and anti-modern. This volume demonstrates that, while often deeply compromised and fragmented, Latin American civil spheres have remained resilient, institutionally and culturally, generating new oppositional movements, independent journalism, rebellious intellectuals, electoral power, and critical political parties. In widely different arenas, dissidents have employed the coruscating language of the civil sphere to pollute their oppressors in the name of justice. In the 1970s and 1980s, political thinkers heralded the resurrection of Latin American civil society, envisioning a new world of freedom and stability. Corruption, inequality, racism, and exclusion become pressing and urgent 'social problems', not despite the promises of democracy, but because of them. The premise of this volume is that Latin American civil spheres are powerful, even as they are compromised, creating challenges to anti-civil culture and institutions that trigger social reform. It is the first of three volumes that place civil sphere theory in a global context.

Populism in the Civil Sphere

Author : Jeffrey C. Alexander
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1509544755
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Populism in the Civil Sphere written by Jeffrey C. Alexander and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-12-03 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even as the specter of populism haunts contemporary societies, scholars have not been able to agree about what it is. Except for one thing: a deviation from democracy, the source, it seems, of the precarious position in which so many societies find themselves today. This volume aims to break the Gordian knot of “populism” by bringing a new social theory to bear and, in so doing so, suggesting that normative judgments about this misunderstood phenomenon need to be reconsidered as well. Populism is not a democratic deviation but a naturally occurring dimension of civil sphere dynamics, fatal to democracy only at the extremes. Because populism is highly polarizing, it has the effect of inducing anxiety that civil solidarity is breaking apart. Left populists feel as if civil solidarity is an illusion, that democratic discourse is a fig leaf for private interests, and that the social and cultural differentiation that vouchsafes the independence of the civil sphere merely reflects the hegemony of narrow professional interests or those of a ruling class. Right populists share the same distrust, even repulsion, for the civil sphere. What seems civil to the center and left, like affirmative action or open immigration, they call out as particularistic; honored civil icons, such as Holocaust memorials, they trash. How can the sense of a vital civil center survive such censure from populism on the left and the right? Populism in the Civil Sphere provides compelling answers to these fundamental questions. Its contributions are both sophisticated theoretical interventions and deeply researched empirical studies, and it will be of great interest to anyone concerned about the most important political developments of our time.

Breaching the Civil Order

Author : Jeffrey C. Alexander
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108427235
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Breaching the Civil Order written by Jeffrey C. Alexander and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A global approach to developing a theory of radicalism, drawing on a series of striking case studies by leading scholars.

The Civil Sphere in East Asia

Author : Jeffrey C. Alexander
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108427839
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book The Civil Sphere in East Asia written by Jeffrey C. Alexander and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-21 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines a range of contemporary social and cultural conflicts in East Asia and the echoes they have throughout the world.

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.

The Oxford Handbook of Civil Society

Author : Michael Edwards
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019933014X
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Civil Society written by Michael Edwards and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Broadly speaking, The Oxford Handbook of Civil Society views the topic of civil society through three prisms: as a part of society (voluntary associations), as a kind of society (marked out by certain social norms), and as a space for citizen action and engagement (the public square or sphere).

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.

Civil Society

Author : Michael Edwards
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745659055
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Civil Society written by Michael Edwards and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-08-20 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its publication in 2004, Civil Society has become a standard work of reference for all those who seek to understand the role of voluntary citizen action in the contemporary world. In this thoroughly-revised edition, Michael Edwards updates the arguments and evidence presented in the original and adds major new material on issues such as civil society in Africa and the Middle East, global civil society, information technology and new forms of citizen organizing. He explains how in the future the pressures of state encroachment, resurgent individualism, and old and familiar forces of nationalism and fundamentalism in new clothes will test and re-shape the practice of citizen action in both positive and negative ways. Civil Society will help readers of all persuasions to navigate these choppy waters with greater understanding, insight and success. Colleges and universities, foundations and NGOs, public policy-makers, journalists and commissions of inquiry – all have used Edwards’s book to understand and strengthen the vital role that civil society can play in deepening democracy, re-building community, and addressing poverty, inequality and injustice. This new edition will be required reading for anyone who is interested in creating a better world through citizen action.

Civil Society and Political Theory

Author : Jean L. Cohen
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262531214
Total Pages : 804 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (312 download)

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Download or read book Civil Society and Political Theory written by Jean L. Cohen and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1994-03-29 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this first serious work on the theory of civil society to appear in many years, Jean Cohen and Andrew Arato contend that the concept of civil society articulates a contested terrain in the West that could become the primary locus for the expansion of democracy and rights. In this major contribution to contemporary political theory, Jean Cohen and Andrew Arato argue that the concept of civil society articulates a contested terrain in the West that could become a primary locus for the expansion of democracy and rights.

Challenges to Civil Society

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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:

Folklore, Public Sphere, and Civil Society

Author : M. D. Muthukumaraswamy
Publisher : NFSC www.indianfolklore.org
ISBN 13 : 8190148141
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Folklore, Public Sphere, and Civil Society written by M. D. Muthukumaraswamy and published by NFSC www.indianfolklore.org. This book was released on 2004 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Indian context; papers presented at a symposium held at New Delhi in 2002.

Habermas and the Public Sphere

Author : Craig Calhoun
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262531146
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Habermas and the Public Sphere written by Craig Calhoun and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1993-03-02 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, scholars from a wide range of disciplines respond to Habermas's most directly relevant work, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere. The relationship between civil society and public life is in the forefront of contemporary discussion. No single scholarly voice informs this discussion more than that of Jürgen Habermas. His contributions have shaped the nature of debates over critical theory, feminism, cultural studies, and democratic politics. In this book, scholars from a wide range of disciplines respond to Habermas's most directly relevant work, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere. From political theory to cultural criticism, from ethics to gender studies, from history to media studies, these essays challenge, refine, and extend our understanding of the social foundations and changing character of democracy and public discourse. Contributors Hannah Arendt, Keith Baker, Seyla Benhabib, Harry C. Boyte, Craig Calhoun, Geoff Eley, Nancy Fraser, Nicholas Garnham, Jürgen Habermas, Peter Hohendahl, Lloyd Kramer, Benjamin Lee, Thomas McCarthy, Moishe Postone, Mary P. Ryan, Michael Schudson, Michael Warner, David Zaret

(Un)civil Society and Political Change in Indonesia

Author : Verena Beittinger-Lee
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415547415
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (155 download)

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Download or read book (Un)civil Society and Political Change in Indonesia written by Verena Beittinger-Lee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a critical analysis of Indonesia's civil society and its impact on the country's democratization efforts that does not only take the classical, pro-democratic actors of civil society into account but also portrays uncivil groups and their growing influence on political processes. In the wake of democratic opening, not only pro-democratic civil society organizations have mushroomed in the country, but 'uncivil' society groups have come increasingly to the fore as well. On the non-state level, violence is executed by self-protection groups, militias, fundamentalist religious groups, terrorist groups, and many more.The book analyses the framework for the development of civil society in Indonesia: the past and present political system and its implications for (civil) society, the role religion (and in particular Islam)play in Indonesia, the state of democratic culture, ethnic and other identities and the advancement of human rights. It draws an overall picture of Indonesia's associational life and the dynamics between its actors after 1998 and introduces some actors of both 'civil' and 'uncivil' society while answering questions about the nature of interaction between civil society and state as well as within civil society. Finally the book illustrates that an opening up of the public sphere and the rise of civil society can have negative impacts on democratization processes as well.This book will be of interest to upper level undergraduates, postgraduates and academics in political science and Southeast Asian studies.

Civil Society

Author : Sudipta Kaviraj
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521002905
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Civil Society written by Sudipta Kaviraj and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-09-06 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Civil society is one of the most used - and abused - concepts in current political thinking. In this important collection of essays, the concept is subjected to rigorous analysis by an international team of contributors, all of whom seek to encourage the historical and comparative understanding of political thought. The volume is divided into two parts: the first section analyses the meaning of civil society in different theoretical traditions of Western philosophy. In the second section, contributors consider the theoretical and practical contexts in which the notion of civil society has been invoked in Asia, Africa and Latin America. These essays demonstrate how an influential Western idea like civil society is itself altered and innovatively modified by the specific contexts of intellectual and practical life in the societies of the South.

Civil Society

Author : John Keane
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745667414
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Civil Society written by John Keane and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-05-06 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is only a decade ago that the eighteenth-century distinction between civil society and the state seemed old-fashioned, an object of cynicism, even of outright hostility. In this important new book, John Keane shows how, in a wholly unexpected reversal of fortunes, this antiquated distinction has since become voguish among politicians, academics, journalists, business leaders, relief agencies and citizens' organizations. John Keane examines the various sources and phases of the dramatic world-wide popularization of the term. He traces its reappearance in a wide range of contexts - from China to Tunisia, from South Africa to the emerging European Union - and clarifies the conflicting grammars and vocabularies of the language of civil society. Considerable care is taken to highlight the different possible meanings of the distinction between civil society and the state. Keane also takes the reader into previously uncharted intellectual territory by demonstrating that the civil society perspective contains unharnessed potentials: that it is possible to develop bold new images of civil society that alter the ways in which we think about matters such as power, property, violence, politics, publicity and democracy. Written with style and imagination, this important book by John Keane will be of great interest to students and scholars in politics, media studies, sociology, social and political theory, and to a broader public audience interested in the central debates and political developments of our time.

The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere

Author : J?rgen Habermas
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745692338
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere written by J?rgen Habermas and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-01-06 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This major work retraces the emergence and development of the Bourgeois public sphere - that is, a sphere which was distinct from the state and in which citizens could discuss issues of general interest. In analysing the historical transformations of this sphere, Habermas recovers a concept which is of crucial significance for current debates in social and political theory. Habermas focuses on the liberal notion of the bourgeois public sphere as it emerged in Europe in the early modern period. He examines both the writings of political theorists, including Marx, Mill and de Tocqueville, and the specific institutions and social forms in which the public sphere was realized. This brilliant and influential work has been widely recognized for many years as a classic of contemporary social and political thought, of interest to students and scholars throughout the social sciences and humanities.