Eruptions, Initiatives and Evolution in Citizen Activism: Civil Societies at Crossroads

ISBN-13: 9780367739669 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 193 str.

Rajesh Tandon; L. David Brown

Opis

The book assesses emerging patterns of citizen activism and civil society development across five continents in response to changing national and global political, economic and social pressures. It identifies emerging challenges, new forms of organization and activism, and implications of these patterns for practitioners and policy-makers concer

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Civil societies at crossroads: eruptions, initiatives, and evolution in citizen activism  2. Struggles for systems that nourish: southern Africa civil society contributions and challenges to the creation of flourishing societies  3. Struggles against systems that impoverish: South African civil society at the crossroads  4. Kampala city traders (KACITA) strike for action  5. Civil society at multiple crossroads in Asia  Kaustuv 6. Civil society in changing India: emerging roles, relationships, and strategies  7. Changing civil society in Cambodia: in search of relevance  8. Is civil society in the Southern Cone of Latin America at a crossroad?  9. Protest and proposal, participation and representation: the Chilean student movement, 2011–12  10. From embarrassing objects to subjects of rights: the Argentine LGBT movement and the Equal Marriage and Gender Identity laws  11. The emergence and re-emergence of civil society: a brief history of civil society in Europe, from the Magna Carta to the Eurozone crisis  12. Occupy London as pre-figurative political action  13. Dutch civil society at crossroads  14. Treading new ground: a changing moment for citizen action in Greece  15. Russian civil society: background, current, and future prospects  16. Civil societies at crossroads: lessons and implications

O autorze

Rajesh Tandon is the founder President of the Society for Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA), an India-based NGO that provides civil society research and capacity building. He has been active in regional and international initiatives to strengthen civil society, democratic governance, and active citizenship.

L. David Brown is a retired Senior Research Fellow at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard University. He was co-Founder and President of the Institute for Development Research, a civil society research and capacity-building center in Boston. He works on civil society development, cross-sector collaboration, and transnational civil society organizations.