Civil Society: Between Concepts and Empirical Grounds

ISBN-13: 9780367635961 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 218 str.

LIV Egholm; Lars Bo Kaspersen

Opis

This book reveals the contextual nature of the process through which civil society develops, presenting studies that analyse the manner in which civil society has been practised and transformed over time, and developing a novel theoretical framework to shed new light on familiar questions pertaining to its boundaries and spaces of action.

Spis treści

Part 1: Setting the Scene;  1. A Processual-relational Approach to Civil Society;  2. The Modern Conceptual History of Civil Society;  3. The "Long History" of Civil Society in Denmark and Western Europe: Civil Society – In the Shadow of the State (Eighteenth to the Twenty-first Century);  4. Different States, Different Shadows: The Particular Exceptionalism of Civil Society in the United States;  Part 2: The Emergence of the Danish Civil Society;  5. Civil Society and the Civilizing Mission;  6. Christianity, State, and Voluntarism: Protestant Processes of Privatization and Deprivatization;  7. Philanthropy as the Co-creator of the Welfare State;  8. Past and Present Futures of Democracy: The Danish Peasants’ Movement as Democracy Instigator and Cultural Mythologizer;  9. Eclipsed by the Welfare State: Understanding the Rise and Decline of the Danish Workers’ Cooperation, 1871–2000;  10. Civil Society in the Shadow of the Danish Welfare State;  11. Civic Action as Temporal Process-in-Relations: Towards an Events-Based Approach;  Part 3: Epilogue;  12. Civil Society as Process and Valuation