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Author : T K Oommen
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2004-03-20
Category : History
ISBN : 0761998284
This book is a collection of 12 essays on three interrelated themes of Nation, Civil Society and Social Movements organized in three parts each having four chapters.
Author : Peter Andrée,Jill K. Clark,Charles Z. Levkoe,Kristen Lowitt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429994364
This book offers insights into the governance of contemporary food systems and their ongoing transformation by social movements. As global food systems face multiple threats and challenges there is an opportunity for social movements and civil society to play a more active role in building social justice and ecological sustainability. Drawing on case studies from Canada, the United States, Europe and New Zealand, this edited collection showcases promising ways forward for civil society actors to engage in governance. The authors address topics including: the variety of forms that governance engagement takes from multi-stakeholderism to co-governance to polycentrism/self-governance; the values and power dynamics that underpin these different types of governance processes; effective approaches for achieving desired values and goals; and, the broader relationships and networks that may be activated to support change. By examining and comparing a variety of governance innovations, at a range of scales, the book offers insights for those considering contemporary food systems and their ongoing transformation. It is suitable for food studies students and researchers within geography, environmental studies, anthropology, policy studies, planning, health sciences and sociology, and will also be of interest to policy makers and civil society organisations with a focus on food systems.
Author : Derrick Purdue
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2007-04-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134149346
This volume examines and contributes to debates surrounding social capital, social movements and the role of civil society in emerging forms of governance. The authors adopt a broad range of research approaches, from testing hypotheses drawn from rationale choice theory against available statistics on associations, to ethnographic study of emerging attempts at participant / deliberative democracy. Divided into three clear sections, focusing on the following core aspects of civil society: • the position of civic organizations between state and society in emerging forms of governance • the geographical scales of social movement mobilizations and actions from the local to the global • the patterns of public trust and civic engagement that falls under the rubric of social capital. The book draws on case studies from a wide range of countries, including: Russia, Ukraine, Britain, Greece, Spain, Germany, Argentina and new Asian democracies. Presenting current research on the key dimensions of civil society, Civil Societies and Social Movements will appeal to those researching and studying in the fields of political science, sociology and social policy.
Author : Lino Briguglio,Michael Briguglio,Sheila Bunwaree,Claire Slatter
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2023-02-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000845983
This volume is unique because of its focus on small states. There are many studies on civil society and social movements, but none that specifically deal with this category of countries. As is well known, small states have particular characteristics, including a limited ability to reap the benefits of economies of scale, a high degree of exposure to forces outside their control, and the proximity of politicians to the voters, often leading to clientelistic relationships and patronage networks. The small island developing states have the additional problem of high environmental vulnerability, with some also dealing with disproportionate ecological footprints. These factors have a bearing on the organization and performance of civil society organizations and social movements, as explained in several chapters of this book. The volume is organized in three parts, dealing with aspects of civil society and social moments in small states in the political, social and environmental spheres, respectively. Various definitions of civil society are proposed in the chapters, but most authors associate the term with organized groups, operating in the interest of citizens, independently of government and commercial business, including various forms of non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Civil society also encompasses social movements, which are considered to be loosely organized collective campaigns in pursuit of social goals. These two terms are sometimes used interchangeably; however, some authors argue that social movements tend to engage in ‘contentious politics’ including protests, while NGOs engage through more organized and institutional routes.
Author : Simin Fadaee
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780415693578
Based on original fieldwork on environmentalism in Iran, this study integrates sociological and historical analyses of social movements and civil society in contemporary Iran. By applying Western sociology to Iranian history and society this book contributes to a better understanding of social movements in a non- European context.
Author : David S. Meyer,Sidney G. Tarrow
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0847685411
Scholars consider ways in which the social movement has changed as a politics and how it changes the societies in which it occurs. This volume contains revealing perspectives on the effectiveness of social protest.
Author : Oommen T. K.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:748208814
Author : Staffan Lindberg,Arni Sverrisson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781349254484
Nationalist movements in the South have been superseded by a plethora of different social movements. This book examines these new movements and considers emerging paradigms of organization and mobilization, which are related to the role movements play in economic and political development. The book analyzes a number of cases and their context and discusses the implications for social movement theory. The focus is on social movements among underprivileged and middle class groups, and the book is global in scope.
Author : Gi-Wook Shin,Paul Y Chang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136708053
This book explores the evolution of social movements in South Korea by focusing on how they have become institutionalized and diffused in the democratic period. The contributors explore the transformation of Korean social movements from the democracy campaigns of the 1970s and 1980s to the rise of civil society struggles after 1987. South Korea was ruled by successive authoritarian regimes from 1948 to 1987 when the government decided to re-establish direct presidential elections. The book contends that the transition to a democratic government was motivated, in part, by the pressure from social movement groups that fought the state to bring about such democracy. After the transition, however, the movement groups found themselves in a qualitatively different political context which in turn galvanized the evolution of the social movement sector. Including an impressive array of case studies ranging from the women's movement, to environmental NGOs, and from cultural production to law, the contributors to this book enrich our understanding of the democratization process in Korea, and show that the social movement sector remains an important player in Korean politics today. This book will appeal to students and scholars of Korean studies, Asian politics, political history and social movements.
Author : T. Beichelt,I. Hahn,F. Schimmelfennig,S. Worschech
Publisher : Springer
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137291097
With contributions from experts on democracy promotion, this volume examines civil society development and external civil society promotion in post-socialist Europe. It focuses on countries with a failed or deficient process of democratic consolidation looking at unintended consequences of external democracy promotion on civil society development.
Author : Ronnie D. Lipschutz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351951166
This volume offers an historical and comparative overview of the literature, theory, practices and critiques of what has been variously labelled 'global' or 'transnational' civil society, which includes a broad range of non-state actors, political, social and economic. The volume includes an introductory essay that historicizes and problematizes the relationship of society to state and market and contextualizes the pieces in the volume, while locating the literature in relationship to international relations, political science and sociology.
Author : John Diamond,Joyce Liddle
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781781907252
This volume reflects on the global dimension of the 2008 banking and financial crisis and point to a bigger and deeper crisis of authority and legitimacy for public managers. The chapters examine key conceptual and theoretical ideas in contemporary international public management.
Author : Donatella della Porta,Teije Hidde Donker,Bogumila Hall,Emin Poljarevic,Daniel P. Ritter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781315403083
This book investigates the origins of civil wars which emerge from failed attempts at democratization. The main aim of this volume is to develop a theoretical explanation of the conditions under which and the mechanisms through which social movements’ struggles for democracy end up in civil war. While the empirical evidence suggests that this is not a rare phenomenon, the literatures on social movements, democratization and civil wars have grown apart from each other. At the theoretical level, Social Movements and Civil War bridges insights in the three fields, looking in particular at explanations of the radicalization of social movements, the failure of democratization processes and the onset of civil war. In doing this, it builds upon the relational approach developed in contentious politics with the aim of singling out robust causal mechanisms. At the empirical level, the research provides in-depth descriptions of four cases of trajectory from social movements for democratization into civil wars: in Syria, Libya, Yemen and the former Yugoslavia. Conditions such as the double weakness of civil society and the state, the presence of entrepreneurs of violence as well as normative and material resources for violence, ethnic and tribal divisions, domestic and international military interventions are considered as influencing the chains of actors’ choices rather than as structural determinants. This book will be of great interest to students of civil wars, political violence, social movements, democratization, and IR in general.
Author : Miriam Smith
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781442606951
Group Politics and Social Movements in Canada, Second Edition updates and expands its exploration of a wide range of organized group and social movement activity in Canadian politics. Particularly distinctive is the inclusion of Quebec nationalism and Aboriginal politics. Many other areas of collective activity are also included: the Occupy movement and anti-poverty organizing, ethnocultural political mobilization, disability, lesbian and gay politics, feminism, farmers and organized interests in agriculture, Christian evangelical groups, environment, and health movements. Contributors to the collection employ a number of theoretical perspectives from political science and sociology to describe the evolution of organized groups and movements and to evaluate successes in exercising influence on Canadian politics. Each chapter provides an overview of the group or movement along with an account of its main networks and organizations, strategies, goals, successes, and failures.
Author : Eugene Nulman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1349556270
Climate Change and Social Movements is a riveting and thorough exploration of three important campaigns to influence climate change policy in the United Kingdom. The author delves deep into the campaigns and illuminates the way policymakers think about and respond to social movements.
