Civil Society Associations And Urban Places

Author : Boudien de Vries
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351951104

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Civil Society, Associations and Urban Places by Boudien de Vries Pdf

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.

Author : Arne Tostensen,Inge Tvedten,Mariken Vaa
Publisher : Nordic Africa Institute
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9171064656

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Associational Life in African Cities by Arne Tostensen,Inge Tvedten,Mariken Vaa Pdf

The book contains 17 chapters with material from 13 African countries, from Egypt to Swaziland and from Senegal to Kenya. Most of the authors are young African academics. The focus of the volume is the multitude of voluntary associations that has emerged in African cities in recent years. In many cases, they are a response to mounting poverty, failing infrastructure and services, and more generally, weak or abdicating urban governments. Some associations are new, in other cases, existing organizations are taking on new tasks. Associations may be neighbourhood-based, others may be city-wide and based on professional groupings or a shared ideology or religion. Still others have an ethnic base. Some of these organizations are engaged in both day-to-day matters of urban management and more long-term urban development. Urban associations challenge the monopoly of local and central government institutions.

Author : Gregory W. Streich
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317003427

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Urban Social Capital by Gregory W. Streich Pdf

This volume presents a kaleidoscopic view of the norms and forms of contemporary city life, focusing especially on the processes of social capital (de)formation in the urban milieu. It brings together studies from highly diverse urban settings, such as squatter re-settlement projects in Kathmandu, urban funeral societies in Africa, an HIV/AIDS community in Los Angeles, the poor of Harare, pensioners in Shanghai, Maori gangs in Auckland, and a Roma boxing club in Prague, among others. Contributors draw on contemporary theory and research in social capital, political economy, urban planning and policy, social movements, civil society and democracy to explore how social norms, networks, connections and ties are created, deployed - and often frayed - under conditions of social complexity, inequality, cultural pluralism, and the ethno-racial diversity and division characteristic of urban contexts throughout the world. In this way, the volume engages in a genuinely globalized - and globalizing - discussion of contemporary urban social life and stands as a unique and timely interdisciplinary contribution to the ever-expanding literature devoted to social capital.

Author : I. Baud,J. Post
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351723787

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Re-aligning Actors in an Urbanized World: Governance and Institutions from a Development Perspective by I. Baud,J. Post Pdf

This title was first published in 2003. In the 1980s, discussions on urban, regional and international development were dominated by those advocating liberalism and free markets. In the 1990s, the experiences of many countries from the previous Soviet Union and those following socialist development models in the South have led to a renewed interest in the democratic institutions that underpin economic development processes. Thus, the state has come back into focus as an "enabler", a co-ordinating agency working with a variety of other organizations in different forms of partnership aimed at urban and regional development. At the same time, increasing disparities between rich and poor have led poor urban households to organize collectively against poverty and to promote community and neighbourhood development. This title examines how both these processes take place, looking at patterns of fundamental re-aligning between state, civil society and the market in an integrated manner. It focuses on urban and regional development, because at the local and regional levels the direct interface between local government, the local and global market, and civil society organizations occurs. The question of re-alignment is considered from three main perspectives: governance and community organization issues at local level, urban areas as motors of economic development and their interface with globalization processes, and urban areas as the nodes of regional development. In each part of the book, one of these perspectives is taken. The contributions of the different authors are grouped around these complementary perspectives. Changing alignment patterns also have far-reaching implications. In the last section, the relation between research and policy around these issues is considered, based on reflections by policy makers and academics who have been influential both nationally and internationally.

Author : Philip D. Oxhorn
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780271043425

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Organizing Civil Society by Philip D. Oxhorn Pdf

Author : David Satterthwaite
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781136567360

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Empowering Squatter Citizen by David Satterthwaite Pdf

Annotation This volume is the most recent addition to the examination of urban poverty by the Human Settlements Program at the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED). It makes the case for redirecting support to local organizations and processes. The core of the book is case studies of innovative government organizations (in Thailand, Mexico, Philippines and Nicaragua) and community-driven processes (in India, South Africa, Pakistan and Brazil) that show new ways to address urban poverty. Each case study is prepared by specialists from these countries. They show that poverty reduction in urban areas is as much about building competent, accountable local organizations as about attempting to improve incomes. It involves strengthening and supporting the organizations formed by the poor or homeless to be able to develop their own solutions and able to negotiate better deals with the organizations delivering infrastructure, services, credit and land for housing. The understanding of urbanpoverty that the book presents goes beyond conventional, official definitions based only on income or consumption levels to include considerations of housing conditions, tenure, infrastructure and service provision, the rule of law, and civil and political rights, including 'voice' and the right to influence policy and practice on the ground. It offers powerful conclusions for national and local governments, NGOs and international agencies on how to tackle the complex and growing problem of urban poverty.

Author : Mann, Robin,Dallimore, David
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781447356516

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Local Civil Society by Mann, Robin,Dallimore, David Pdf

Epdf and ePUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Drawing on place-based field investigations and new empirical analysis, this original book investigates civil society at local level. The concept of civil society is contested and multifaceted, and this text offers assessment and clarification of debates concerning the intertwining of civil society, the state and local community relations. Analysing two Welsh villages, the authors examine the importance of identity, connection with place and the impact of social and spatial boundaries on the everyday production of civil society. Bringing into focus questions of biography and temporality, the book provides an innovative account of continuities and changes within local civil society during social and economic transformation.

Author : David T Beito,Peter Gordon,Alexander Tabarrok
Publisher : Independent Institute
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781598132328

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The Voluntary City by David T Beito,Peter Gordon,Alexander Tabarrok Pdf

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.

Author : Benjamin L. Read,Robert Pekkanen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2009-06-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134006694

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Local Organizations and Urban Governance in East and Southeast Asia by Benjamin L. Read,Robert Pekkanen Pdf

This edited collection brings together enterprising pieces of new research on the many forms of organization in East and Southeast Asia that are sponsored or mandated by government, but engage widespread participation at the grassroots level. Straddling the state-society divide, these organizations play important roles in society and politics, yet remain only dimly understood. This book shines a spotlight on this phenomenon, which speaks to fundamental questions about how such societies choose to organize themselves, how institutions of local governance change over time, and how individuals respond to and make use of the power of the state. The contributors investigate organizations ranging from volunteer-based organizations that partner with government in providing services for homeless children, to state-managed networks of neighborhood- or village-level associations that perform representative as well as administrative functions and seeks to answer a number of questions: When do the "vertical," top-down imperatives of the state stifle "horizontal" solidarities, and when might the two work in harmony? Are useful social and administrative purposes served by this type of fusion? Does it amplify or merely muffle citizens’ voices? What does it tell us about existing accounts of community, social capital, "synergy," "complementarity," "subsidiarity," and related concepts? Representing seven countries: China, Japan, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, Taiwan, and Singapore this volume will be of interest to undergraduates, postgraduates and academics in Asian studies, political science, sociology, anthropology, development, history, nonprofit studies.

Author : Amrita Daniere,Mike Douglass
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2008-09-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134040216

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The Politics of Civic Space in Asia by Amrita Daniere,Mike Douglass Pdf

This book explores how and why civic spaces are used by different communities in Asia and what role urban governance and public participation play in the support or demise of communities. Using case studies of contemporary city life throughout, the contributors provide insights into the importance and value of civic space, arguing that civic spaces provide not only the physical sites for civil society to function autonomously; but also provide a sense of place in the form of identity, meaning, memory, history and linkages with the wider world. Each chapter focuses on the production of and access to civic spaces in a particular Asian city, as well as examples of successes and failures that can inform urban policy regarding inclusive, tolerant and socially vibrant city life through focused attention on the provision and continuity of civic space. This book is designed to provide information to policymakers, researchers and students of the developing world regarding the importance and value of civic space in terms of creating and supporting urban communities. As such, The Politics of Civic Space in Asia will be an invaluable resource for those interested in urban planning, urban design, public policy and political science, as well as Asian studies more generally.

Author : Jefferey M. Sellers,Anders Lidström,Yooil Bae
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108427784

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Multilevel Democracy by Jefferey M. Sellers,Anders Lidström,Yooil Bae Pdf

Explores ways to make democracy work better, with particular focus on the integral role of local institutions.

Author : Steven C. Soper
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442645035

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Building a Civil Society by Steven C. Soper Pdf

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.

Author : Michael Peter Smith,Michael MacQuarrie
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781412846189

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Remaking Urban Citizenship by Michael Peter Smith,Michael MacQuarrie Pdf

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Author : Josefina Figueira-McDonough
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781134942138

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Community Analysis and Practice by Josefina Figueira-McDonough Pdf

Concentrating on three main themes - environmental complexity, community as the target of intervention, and commitment to social justice - Community Theory and Practice updates and expands the current boundaries of thinking about community organization. This book is an important resource for social work students, educators, and practitioners, as well as those who work in the areas of sociology, urban studies, community organization and development, and criminology, and other areas of social study and policy.

Author : Karlsdóttir, Anna,Sigurjónsdóttir, Hjördís Rut,Heleniak, Timothy,Cuadrado, Alex
Publisher : Nordic Council of Ministers
Page : 49 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789289366052

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Learning to live in a new Country – everyday social integration: Civil society and integration – Nordic rural perspective by Karlsdóttir, Anna,Sigurjónsdóttir, Hjördís Rut,Heleniak, Timothy,Cuadrado, Alex Pdf

Online publication: https://pub.norden.org/nord2020-036/ Abstract [en] In this paper we focus on three of the main ways civil society can play a role in the integration of refugees and immigrants. The leading question we seek to answer is as follows. Are the ways in which civil society engages different in rural areas and in smaller communities around the Nordic Region, as compared with urban areas and large cities? We use evidence from interviews and transcripts with migration workers as our starting point. We then focus on the role of a) religious communities and aid organisations, b) sport organisations and clubs, c) pop-up activism and mentorship programmes from available literature and from Nordic seminars and dialogue. We will also focus on partnerships and forms of coordination between civil society organisations, municipalities and regions.