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Author: Paul Chaney
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Published: 2023
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781447353430
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume explores how the uncertainties of the 21st century present existential challenges to civil society. Presenting original empirical findings, it highlights transferable lessons that will inform policy and practice in today's age of uncertainty.
Author: Paul Chaney
Publisher: Policy Press
Published: 2024-04-09
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 1447353420
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores how the uncertainties of the 21st century present existential challenges to civil society. Presenting original empirical findings, it highlights transferable lessons that will inform policy and practice in today’s age of uncertainty.
Author: Adam Ferguson
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Published: 1767
Total Pages: 430
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jessop, Bob
Publisher: Policy Press
Published: 2020-09-23
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 1447354958
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRenowned social and political theorist Bob Jessop explores the idea of civil society as a mode of governance in this bold challenge to current thinking. Developing theories of governance failure and metagovernance, the book analyses the limits and failures of economic and social policy in various styles of governance. Reviewing the principles of self-emancipation and self-responsibilisation it considers the struggle to integrate civil society into governance, and the power of social networks and solidarity within civil society. With case studies of mobilisations to tackle economic and social problems, this is a comprehensive review of the factors that influence their success and identifies lessons for future social innovation.
Author: Peter I. Hajnal
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-11-11
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781138734203
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis title was first published in 2002. This informed text explores the crucial role that efficient, skilful use of information and communications technology and news media has played in increasing the influence and enhancing the work of civil society organizations. Scholars, analysts and practitioners in fields ranging from politics and economics through international law and information studies will find this book indispensable.
Author: Johannes Glückler
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2021-12-08
Total Pages: 317
ISBN-13: 3030711471
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Author: Deborah R. Coen
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2008-09-15
Total Pages: 394
ISBN-13: 0226111784
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVienna in the Age of Uncertainty traces the vital and varied roles of science through the story of three generations of the eminent Exner family, whose members included Nobel Prize–winning biologist Karl Frisch, the teachers of Freud and of physicist Erwin Schrödinger, artists of the Vienna Secession, and a leader of Vienna’s women’s movement. Training her critical eye on the Exners through the rise and fall of Austrian liberalism and into the rise of the Third Reich, Deborah R. Coen demonstrates the interdependence of the family’s scientific and domestic lives, exploring the ways in which public notions of rationality, objectivity, and autonomy were formed in the private sphere. Vienna in the Age of Uncertainty presents the story of the Exners as a microcosm of the larger achievements and tragedies of Austrian political and scientific life in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Author: David J. Hess
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2016-10-07
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 0262035138
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIntroduction -- Repression, ignorance, and undone science -- The epistemic dimension of the political opportunity structure -- The politics of meaning: from frames to design conflicts -- The organizational forms of counterpublic knowledge -- Institutional change, industrial transitions, and regime resistance politics -- Contemporary change: liberalization and epistemic modernization -- Conclusion
Author: John Ziman
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited
Published: 2016-09-22
Total Pages: 358
ISBN-13: 1845405986
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThese days, science is everywhere. It pervades our whole society. Sometimes it is just a clutter of commonplace frivolities, like new fashion fabrics. Sometimes it miraculously preserves our life, like penicillin. Sometimes, like climate change, it looms over us as a portent of doom: sometimes it promises a way of escape from such a fate. Sometimes, like a nuclear warhead, it enshrouds us in political terror: sometimes, like a verification technology, it offers an antidote to such evils. How should we respond to this ambiguous and ubiquitous thing called science?
Author: Carew Boulding
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-10-06
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781107659384
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book argues that non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have an important effect on political participation in the developing world. Contrary to popular belief, they promote moderate political participation through formal mechanisms such as voting only in democracies where institutions are working well. This is a radical departure from the bulk of the literature on civil society that sees NGOs and other associations as playing a role in strengthening democracy wherever they operate. Instead, Carew Boulding shows that where democratic institutions are weak, NGOs encourage much more contentious political participation, including demonstrations, riots, and protests. Except in extreme cases of poorly functioning democratic institutions, however, the political protest that results from NGO activity is not generally anti-system or incompatible with democracy - again, as long as democracy is functioning above a minimal level.
