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1989 Revolutions in retrospect / Pop, Adrian   Journal Article
Pop, Adrian Journal Article
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Publication 2013.
Summary/Abstract Reminding us of the failure of academia to predict the East European revolutions, and the challenges presented by the latter to the theories of revolution, the essay claims that in order to understand why the exit from communism comprised so many varied modes, one should take a 'path-dependence' diachronic and synchronic comparative perspective. Based on this dual approach and a set of variables, the essay advances a typology of East European revolutions and argues that the issues regarding the type of political regime, the development of civil society and its way of interacting with the state are of paramount importance for comprehending how the 'negotiated revolutions' in Central Europe came about. Finally, the significance of the Central European civil society strategy under late communism for the era of globalisation is addressed.
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ID:   066239


Abu Sayyaf group: a growing menace to civil society / Filler, Alfredo L   Article
Filler, Alfredo L Article
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Publication 2002.
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ID:   128195


Academic peace orchestra ME — experiences and lessons learned / Kubbig, Bernd W; Weidlich, Christian   Journal Article
Kubbig, Bernd W Journal Article
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Publication 2013.
Summary/Abstract Future Track II activities might concentrate on the level of domestic politics, including empowering civil society movements as the rising agents of change.
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ID:   138302


Accountability in global governance: civil society claims for environmental performance at the world bank / Buntaine, Mark T   Article
Buntaine, Mark T Article
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Summary/Abstract International organizations frequently lack accountability to both states and civil society groups. States often face difficulties monitoring the actions of international organizations. Civil society groups do not often enjoy direct influence over decision-making within international organizations. To address these challenges, states have created accountability mechanisms for international organizations. Accountability mechanisms allow civil society groups to submit complaints about the performance of international organizations. They take the form of ombudsmen offices, accountability panels, and complaint procedures. Little is known about when and why these mechanisms constrain behavior by international organizations that runs counter to the mutual interests of states and civil society groups. Using the World Bank Inspection Panel as a test case, I show that monitoring by civil society groups alters lending at the World Bank when it enhances oversight by powerful states. By combining their abilities in sanctioning and monitoring, states and civil society groups can promote accountability at international organizations.
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ID:   145867


Active citizenship, dissent and civic consciousness: young Muslims redefining citizenship on their own terms / Mustafa, Anisa   Journal Article
Mustafa, Anisa Journal Article
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Summary/Abstract British Muslims have confronted numerous challenges since 9/11 which have rendered their citizenship ‘precarious’ and ‘contingent’, including rampant Islamophobia and a disproportionate impact from tighter security and immigration measures. Additionally, they are also disadvantaged by new forms of governance which promote ‘active citizenship’ based on both neoliberal and resurgent nationalist demands for citizens to be more self-reliant as welfare provision shrinks. This article explores how young British Muslim civil society activists negotiate some of these challenges by analysing their discourses on citizenship and belonging. Based on an ethnographic study, it is suggested that despite experiencing exclusion and marginalisation, young Muslim activists incarnate active citizenship but with reference to a very different set of values and priorities in contrast to nationalist and neoliberal normative ideas. Demonstrating a strong commitment to civic responsibility and participation, these young Muslims defy fears that negative associations with Britishness weaken the value and relevance of citizenship.
Key Words Citizenship  Civil Society  Muslim  Neoliberalism  Activism  Securitisation 
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ID:   119191


Advance of the party: transformation or takeover of urban grassroots society? / Thornton, Patricia M   Journal Article
Thornton, Patricia M Journal Article
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Publication 2013.
Summary/Abstract While existing scholarship focuses attention on the impact of state control and repression on Chinese civil society, the increasingly independent role of the Communist Party has been largely overlooked. This article reviews the Party's drive to "comprehensively cover" grassroots society over the previous decade against the theoretical debate unfolding among Chinese scholars and Party theoreticians regarding the Party's role with respect to civil society. Focusing on greater Shanghai, frequently cited as a national model of Party-building, I describe the Party's advance and the emergence of Party-organized non-governmental organizations (PONGOs), a new hybrid form of social organization sponsored and supported by local Party committees. I argue that these developments invite a reconsideration of our understandings of the ongoing "associational revolution" and of the Party's relationship to China's flourishing "third realm."
Key Words Civil Society  NGOs  Chinese Communist Party  urban  Shanghai  Party Building 
Social Policy 
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ID:   089672


Afghanistan: graveyard of good intent / Daxner, Michael   Journal Article
Daxner, Michael Journal Article
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Publication 2009.
Summary/Abstract Afghans want their collective integrity and dignity restored; they want and need the traumas from 30 years of terrible violence eased.
Key Words Social Conditions  Civil Society  Afghanistan 
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ID:   127875


Afghanistan after 2014: India's role and strategy / Das, Nihar Ranjan   Journal Article
Das, Nihar Ranjan Journal Article
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Publication 2013.
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Afghanistan-a country without a state? / Noelle-Karimi, Christine (ed.); Schetter, Conrad (ed.); Schlagintweit, Reinhard (ed.) 2002  Book
Noelle-Karimi, Christine Book
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Publication Frankfurt, IKO-Verlag fur Interkulturelle Kommunikation, 2002.
Description xiii, 241p.pbk
Series Mediothek fur Afghanistan e.V.
Standard Number 3889396283
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ID:   128806


Africa is rising / Ricketts, Rita   Journal Article
Ricketts, Rita Journal Article
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Publication 2012.
Key Words Civil Society  Africa  South Africa  New Zealand  Ndaba Mandela 
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ID:   115590


African states and the ATT negotiations / Lamb, Guy   Journal Article
Lamb, Guy Journal Article
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Publication 2012.
Key Words Civil Society  Africa  Algeria  Kenya  North Africa  Egypt 
African States  Arms Trade Treaty  Global Arms Trade  ATT Negotiations 
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ID:   119045


After fifty years of political and social change: caste associations and politics in India / Manor, James   Journal Article
Manor, James Journal Article
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Publication 2012.
Key Words Civil Society  Caste  Indian Politics  Hierarchy  Caste Associations 
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ID:   067076


After the revolution: civil society and the challenges of consolidating democracy in Georgia / Broers, Laurence 2005  Journal Article
Broers, Laurence Journal Article
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Publication 2005.
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Algorithmic autoimmunity in the NHS: radicalisation and the clinic / Heath-Kelly, Charlotte   Journal Article
Heath-Kelly, Charlotte Journal Article
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Summary/Abstract This article explores the extension of counter-radicalisation practice into the National Health Service (NHS). In the 2011 reformulation of the UK Prevent strategy, the NHS became a key sector for the identification and suppression of ‘radicalisation’. Optometrists, dentists, doctors and nurses have been incorporated into counter-terrorism and trained to report signs of radicalisation in patients and staff. This article explores how calculative modalities associated with big data and digital analytics have been translated into the non-digital realm. The surveillance of the whole of the population through the NHS indicates a dramatic policy shift away from linear profiling of those ‘suspect communities’ previously considered vulnerable to radicalisation. Fixed indicators of radicalisation and risk profiles no longer reduce the sample size for surveillance by distinguishing between risky and non-risky bodies. Instead, the UK government chose the NHS as a pre-eminent site for counter-terrorism because of the large amount of contact it has with the public. The UK government is developing a novel counter-terrorism policy in the NHS around large-N surveillance and inductive calculation, which demonstrates a translation of algorithmic modalities and calculative regimes. This article argues that this translation produces an autoimmune moment in British security discourse whereby the distinction between suspicious and non-suspicious bodies has collapsed. It explores the training provided to NHS staff, arguing that fixed profiles no longer guide surveillance: rather, surveillance inductively produces the terrorist profile.
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Allies or opponents? power-sharing, civil society, and gender / Thomson, Jennifer; Pierson, Claire   Journal Article
Thomson, Jennifer Journal Article
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Summary/Abstract Feminist critics of power-sharing argue that power-sharing structures privilege ethnic/ethnonational identity and impede women's descriptive and substantive political representation. This paper extends these arguments to consider the extent to which consociational theory addresses the role of civil society and women's political voice in postconflict societies. We argue that power-sharing is overly concerned with formal representation to the detriment of understanding the role civil society can play in peace building. Whilst we acknowledge the importance of civil society retaining a critical distance from political institutions, we suggest several mechanisms for incorporating civil society into power-sharing arrangements. We argue that a consideration of civil society can highlight the gendered issues that are ignored in power-sharing settings, and we conclude that a broader understanding of both “politics” and “conflict” is required for power-sharing to be more equitable to women's descriptive and substantive representation.
Key Words Civil Society  Gender  Power-Sharing 
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ID:   179282


Alternative Publications, Spaces and Publics: revisiting the Public Sphere in 20th- and 21st-century China / Veg, Sebastian; Cheng, Edmund W   Journal Article
Veg, Sebastian Journal Article
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Summary/Abstract Reviewing the extant literature on China's public sphere from the perspective of 20th-century history and social science, this introductory essay argues for the continued relevance of studying the publications and public practices associated with knowledge communities. By steering away from normative definitions and by envisaging publicness as a process, a connection can be explored between social discourses and political practices in China. Discursive communities, based on shared identity or sociability, may appear marginal, but at key moments they can play a unique role in modifying the dynamics of political events.
Key Words Media  Civil Society  China  Press  Public Sphere  Publicness 
Publications 
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ID:   140460


Ambedkar, Marx and the Buddhist question / Skaria, Ajay   Article
Skaria, Ajay Article
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Summary/Abstract This essay tries to frame one question, which at its most abbreviated can be posed thus: why does Ambedkar convert to Buddhism? Given Ambedkar's militant secularism, to ask this question is also to ask: what assumption of responsibility does that conversion enable which exceeds secular responsibility? This essay tracks how Ambedkar's religion questions both the liberal concept of minority, and the dissolution of the minor that is staged in Marx's critique simultaneously of religion and secularism. Buddhism becomes in the process a religion of the minor.
Key Words Civil Society  Secularism  Conversion  Marx  Political Society  Civil Religion 
Arendt  Ambedkar  Principle  Navayana Buddhism 
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ID:   131217


Anniversary angst: Hong Kong faces months of unrest / Sheehan, Jackie   Journal Article
Sheehan, Jackie Journal Article
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Publication 2014.
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Another view on the relationship between democratization and intra-military division in South Korea / Heo, Uk; Yun, Seongyi   Article
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Summary/Abstract Armed Forces and Society recently published an article, ‘‘Intra-Military Division and Democratization in South Korea’’ by Insoo Kim. In the article, Kim argues that economic development and civil society explanations for South Korea’s democratization are not sufficient because conflict in the military undermined the ability of Chun’s government to suppress the democracy movement, which made the transition possible. We refute Kim’s argument because economic development clearly made significant contribution to South Korea’s democratization by enhancing education attainment and facilitating industrialization and urbanization. Moreover, there is no clear evidence of schism in the military or among political elites, and the authoritarian leader Chun Doo-hwan agreed to change the presidential election system based on his political calculation.
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Anti-development or identity crisis? Misreading civil society i / McDuie-Ra, Duncan   Journal Article
McDuie-Ra, Duncan Journal Article
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Publication 2007.
Summary/Abstract This paper discusses the complex relationship between civil society and development in Asia by examining the role of ethnic identity in anti-development movements. Local and transnational movements by civil society actors against dams, mines, and deforestation have gained increased attention in academia and activist circles in the last decade, often used as evidence in arguments that development as part of neo-liberalism and/or state-led socialism is faltering. Furthermore, tribal, indigenous, and minority communities are often portrayed as having a closer relationship to the environment, which is seen as instrumental in their opposition to development projects. While agreeing with these arguments to some extent, this paper examines the local context of anti-development movements using research from fieldwork in the Indian state of Meghalaya and argues that struggles over development projects are also struggles over ethnic identity. In Meghalaya, civil society actors from the Khasi ethnic group have opposed several large development projects on the +grounds that these projects will attract labourers from Bangladesh and other parts of India, threatening the survival of the Khasi ethnic group. Damage to the environment, livelihoods, and loss of land are rarely a concern. The failure to recognize the influence of ethnic identity politics in critiques of development raises the risk of misreading both the extent of anti-development sentiments in civil society and the potential for development projects to be reframed by proponents into an acceptable ethnic guise. Furthermore, the actors contesting development through identity politics are overwhelmingly from urban areas, leaving rural people with limited access to civil society. This paper attempts to add a critical perspective to current literature on development and civil society using empirical examples from one of the least researched regions in Asia
Key Words Civil Society  Development  Identity  Meghalaya  Northeast India  Uranium mining 
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