Exploring Civil Society : Political and Cultural Contexts
by Glasius, Marlies; Lewis, David; Seckinelgin, HakanPub. Date: 2004-08-19
Publisher(s): Taylor & Francis
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Summary
This volume explores how the idea of civil society has been translated in different cultural contexts and examines its impact on politics worldwide.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | |
| Exploring Civil Society Internationally | |
| Setting out the Argument | |
| Putting Civil Society in its Place | |
| The Problem with Civil Society or Putting Modern European History Back into Contemporary Debate | |
| Civil Society in Multilingual Polities | |
| In the Church of Civil Society | |
| Owning the Concept: Latin America and Eastern Europe | |
| Civil society in Latin-America: Uncivil, liberal and participatory models | |
| Collective Action or Public Participation?: Civil Society and the public sphere in post transition Latin America | |
| Civil Society in Eastern Europe: Growth without engagement | |
| Western Europe and the United States: Rediscovering the concept | |
| Civil Society in the United States of America: Prototype or exception? An essay on cultural self-understanding | |
| In Paris, the Global Place Is No Longer Saint Germain des Prés: Civil society and the French debate | |
| Western Europe: Democratic civil society versus neo-liberalism | |
| Asia: Rooted or imported? | |
| 'Old' and 'New' Civil Societies in Bangladesh | |
| Seizing Spaces, Challenging Marginalization and Claiming Voice: New trends in civil society in China | |
| Central Asian Fragmented Civil Society: Communal and neo-liberal forms in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan | |
| Africa: Civil society as neo-colonialism? | |
| On the evolution of civil society in Nigeria | |
| Civil Society in South Africa | |
| Civil Society in West Africa: Between discourse and reality | |
| The Middle East: Civil society as emancipation? | |
| Civil Society in Iran: Past, present and the future | |
| Contractions of a Socio-cultural Reflex: Civil society in Turkey | |
| Unfulfilled Aspirations: Civil society in Palestine 1993-98 | |
| The Case for Global Civil Society | |
| Globalization and Civil Society | |
| Global Civil Society and Global Governmentality | |
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