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Category Archives: Civil society
Transnational social capital: the socio-spatialities of civil society
Civil society remains a contested concept, but one that is widely embedded in global development processes. Transnationalism within civil society scholarship is often described dichotomously, either through hierarchical dependency relations or as a more amorphous networked global civil society. These two contrasting spatial imaginaries … Continue reading
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The Time of the Tribes: The Decline of Individualism in Mass Society
In this provocative book, Michel Maffesoli explores the persistence and the centrality of an affective, solidary space of sociality that emerges from the small-group contexts of everyday life … with fruitful questions for those studying civil society, community or “new … Continue reading
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The Civic Organization and the Digital Citizen: Communicating Engagement in a Networked Age
The powerful potential of digital media to engage citizens in political actions has now crossed our news screens many times. But the scholarly focus has tended to be on “networked,” anti-institutional forms of collective action, to the neglect of advocacy … Continue reading
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A internet e o “orgasmo democrático”
A emergente participação em rede não produzirá novas ideologias unitárias ou revoluções, mas poderá destruir o velho jogo da governança representativa. Muito se fala de como as redes sociais vêm modificando o pensamento social e ampliando a capacidade de reflexão, … Continue reading
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The Civic Web: Young People, the Internet, and Civic Participation
There has been widespread concern in contemporary Western societies about declining engagement in civic life; people are less inclined to vote, to join political parties, to campaign for social causes, or to trust political processes. Young people in particular are … Continue reading
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Civil society – A multi-layered concept
The author analyses the connections between social developments and the evolution of the theory of civil society (CS) (classical background, semantic shifts, re-emergence and open questions regarding future research). He distinguishes four layers of meanings of CS but focuses on … Continue reading
Tribes, Institutions, Markets, Networks – A framework about Societal Evolution
What forms account for the organization of societies? How have people organized their societies across the ages? The answer may be reduced to four basic forms of organization: the kinship-based tribe, as denoted by the structure of extended families, clans, … Continue reading
Alter-Globalization as a Social Movement
Read Alter-globalization as a social movement is seen as a worthy cause because its goals aim to sustain those being afflicted by the selfish acts of global corporations and their negative effect on human value, the environment, and social justices. … Continue reading
Real democracy – Greece
Read We are ordinary people. We are like you: people, who get up every morning to study, work or find a job, people who have family and friends. People, who work hard every day to provide a better future for … Continue reading
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In Greece, we see democracy in action
The public debates of the outraged in Athens are the closest we have come to democratic practice in recent European history. Thousands of people come together daily in Syntagma to discuss the next steps. The parallels with the classical Athenian … Continue reading
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