Civil societies at crossroads: eruptions, initiatives, and evolution in citizen activism
| Autor: | Rajesh Tandon, L. David Brown |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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| Zdroj: | Development in Practice. 23:601-608 |
| ISSN: | 1364-9213 0961-4524 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/09614524.2013.800842 |
| Popis: | This Special Issue has grown from the sense that important changes in the last two decades pose dilemmas and challenges for civil societies in many countries. The Issue reports on a series of studies of the evolving roles of civil society sectors and citizen initiatives in several regions of the world. This introduction identifies a series of events and forces that over the last two decades have fundamentally changed the contexts of civil society activities in many countries. These changes have catalyzed a wide range of citizen eruptions and initiatives on particular issues as well as national civil society evolutions in many countries. The papers in this Special Issue have resulted from a multi-country collective reflection organized by five civil society support organizations from different regions. They sought to identify roles, capacities, contributions, and limitations of civil society in these changing contexts using a variety of approaches to data collection and analysis. This introduction briefly ... |
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