Economic Change and Civil Society in Poland

1992 ◽  
pp. 91-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Witold Morawski
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Economic Change

The Cuban Civic Movement

2006 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 157-170
Author(s):  
Orlando Gutierrez-Boronat ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Communist Party ◽  
First Generation ◽  
Economic Change ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Social Origins ◽  
Totalitarian Regime ◽  
Popular Participation ◽  
Revolutionary Movement ◽  
Political Conditions

During the 1990s, the dissident movement in Cuba has grown in effectiveness, popular participation, and intemational support. While facing a first-generation totalitarian regime, with a sophisticated repressive apparatus, the civic movement in the Island has persevered and grown in spite of constant persecution, offering hope for political, social, and economic change from within Cuba itself. This essay seeks to provide a brief overview of the civic movement in Cuba covering its social origins and growth, theoretical repercussions of its existence, major leaders and initiatives, its relationship with the Cuban exile community, its ideological history and development, intemational support, and its current status in light of recent events affecting political conditions in the Island. Born initially out of dissident cells within Cuba's revolutionary movement and the Communist Party, the dissident movement in Cuba has transformed itself into a microcosm of a re-emerging civil society through which Cuban citizens are reclaiming their sovereignity and constructing the blueprint for a new Republic. The Varela Project is of particular significance for the development of the civic movement in Cuba.

A Discussion on Social Entrepreneurship in South Africa

2016 ◽  
pp. 292-311
Author(s):  
Kerryn Krige
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Social Entrepreneurship ◽  
Fast Track ◽  
Economic Change ◽  
Social Value ◽  
Social Entrepreneurs ◽  
Traditional Methods

This chapter explores the literature on social entrepreneurship and civil society in South Africa, with a brief look on the country context and the need to fast track socio-economic change. It presents weaknesses in the current ability of civil society to function well and argues that social entrepreneurship offers opportunity to strengthen traditional methods of delivering social value, whilst introducing new aproaches. The chapter provides brief insights on where social entrepreneurs require greater support to be effective and looks at where there are quick wins to enable them to thrive.

scholarly journals Actors and discourses in the construction of hegemony

Pragmatics ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monica Heller
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Economic Change ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Process Of Change ◽  
Hegemonic Discourse ◽  
Material Resources ◽  
Secondary Resource ◽  
Cultural Climate ◽  
Political Economic

In this paper, I will examine one aspect of a Gramscian notion of hegemony, one which focusses on the way in which hegemony is about “collectively attaining a single cultural “climate””, at least in part through language. This assumes discursive struggle in which some views end up marginalizing others. I will examine this struggle in terms of some of the ways in which the trajectories of actors and of discourses are connected, such that discursive resources are (or are not) available to actors with different positions with respect to unequally distributed symbolic and material resources, and are used in practice in ways which make sense given the sets of interests these actors have. This attempt at operationalizing an ethnography of hegemony is based on an analysis of discursive shift in between ethnonational forms of hegemonic discourse and practice being challenged by commodification, economic networking, and multiple affiliations, under conditions of economic shift from primary and secondary resource economies to tertiary ones, and of the re- shaping of the State’s relationship to civil society and the private sector. It has specifically to do with current shifts in ideas about what constitutes the category francophone in Canada, or put differently, what it might mean to do being “francophone”. In particular, I will examine the ways in which the institutionalized structures related to that categorization have been called into question by ongoing political economic change, and how actors involved in those structures act in, on and through the process of change to produce new ways of doing la francophonie, at least on the local level.

A Discussion on Social Entrepreneurship in South Africa

2017 ◽  
pp. 1710-1729
Author(s):  
Kerryn Krige
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Social Entrepreneurship ◽  
Fast Track ◽  
Economic Change ◽  
Social Value ◽  
Social Entrepreneurs ◽  
Traditional Methods ◽  
New Approaches

This chapter explores the literature on social entrepreneurship and civil society in South Africa, with a brief look on the country context and the need to fast track socio-economic change. It presents weaknesses in the current ability of civil society to function well and argues that social entrepreneurship offers opportunity to strengthen traditional methods of delivering social value, whilst introducing new approaches. The chapter provides brief insights on where social entrepreneurs require greater support to be effective and looks at where there are quick wins to enable them to thrive.

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