Citizenship, Civil Society and Development: Interconnections in a Global World

ISBN-13: 9780367738860 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 98 str.

Tiina Kontinen; Henri Onodera

Opis

The book investigates the complex relationships between theories and practices of what is traditionally labelled "development" and the changing conception of citizenship.

It was published as a special issue of the Journal of Civil Society.

Spis treści

1. Citizenship, Civil Society, and Development: Interconnections in a Global World  2. Citizenship Quality: A New Agenda for Development?  3. Water Privatization and Social Citizenship: The Case of Urban Water Sector in Ghana  4. CSO Law in Ethiopia: Considering its Constraints and Consequences  5. Cooperation for the Enhancement of Environmental Citizenship in the Context of Securitization: The Case of an OSCE Project in Serbia  6. The Arab Spring Meets the Occupy Wall Street Movement: Examples of Changing Definitions of Citizenship in a Global World

O autorze

Tiina Kontinen, PhD, is a Senior Lecturer in social sciences at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland where she teaches in a Master Degree Programme for Development and International Cooperation. Her research interests revolve around civil society and development, development interventions and knowledge production in development NGOs.

Henri Onodera holds an MA in Social Anthropology of Development from School of Oriental and African Studies in London, UK. He has worked as a researcher at Universities of Helsinki and Eastern Finland. His doctoral research focuses on the politicization of young Egyptians in the 2000s.