The Prevailing Approach to Review

2019 ◽  
pp. 93-132
Author(s):  
Jessie Blackbourn ◽  
Fiona de Londras ◽  
Lydia Morgan
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Civil Servants ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
Counter Terrorism ◽  
Civil Society Organisations ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Impact

This chapter presents a thematic analysis of 24 interviews with actors we identified as undertaking, participating in, or interacting with counter-terrorism review, including former Home Secretaries, former Independent Reviewers of Terrorism Legislation, high-level political actors, representatives of regulators and complaints bodies, civil servants, lawyers, and representatives from a range of civil society organisations. The chapter considers this data across five themes: (i) the purposes of review, (ii) how those purposes are pursued in practice, (iii) the values that underpin review, (iv) how the different elements of the counter-terrorism review assemblage relate to one another, and (v) the impact of review.

scholarly journals Exploring the impact of farmer-led research supported by civil society organisations

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann Waters-Bayer ◽  
Patti Kristjanson ◽  
Chesha Wettasinha ◽  
Laurens van Veldhuizen ◽  
Gabriela Quiroga ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Civil Society Organisations ◽  
The Impact

Technologies of the Afterlife

2015 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 141-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonah S. Rubin
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Spanish Civil War ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
The Public ◽  
Civil Society Organisations ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Franco Dictatorship ◽  
Democratic Constitution

In August 2011, I attended the exhumation of Severiano Clemente González, conducted by the Forum for Memory in the Castilian town of La Toba, Guadalajara. Mr González was one of the over 130,000 civilian victims of the 1936–1939 Spanish Civil War and ensuing Franco dictatorship (1939–1975). Even after Spain’s democratic constitution in 1978, most families could not recover their loved ones, owing to an unofficial ‘Pact of Silence’ whereby major political actors agreed not to legislate, litigate or discuss the still controversial past in the public sphere (Encarnación 2014). Since 2000, however, civil society organisations such as the Forum for Memory and the Association for the Recovery of Historical Memory (ARMH) have been leading a series of forensic exhumations – modelled after similar state-led interventions in Latin America, Southern and Eastern Europe (Ferrándiz 2010; Rubin 2014).

scholarly journals What drives Web 2.0 adoption in South African civil society organisations

2014 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kiru Pillay ◽  
Manoj S. Maharaj
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
South African ◽  
Civil Society Organisations ◽  
Internal Reasons ◽  
Media Services ◽  
American Elections ◽  
The Impact ◽  
External Reasons

Background: The impact and consequences of social media adoption on society are only just being realised and studied in detail; consequently, there is no universal agreement as to the reasons for the adoption of these services. Even understanding why some social media services are popular remains to some extent elusive. The practical use of Web 2.0 does not provide any answers either with, for example, a noticeable difference in the way social media was strategically used by Barack Obama and Mitch Romney in the lead-up to the 2009 American elections. However, recent studies that have focused on social media adoption within specific sectors have begun to shed some light on these emerging adoption patterns; two studies in particular are illustrative: a 2012 study on the newspaper sector and a study on social media adoption and e-government.Objectives: This study investigates why South African civil society organisations (CSOs) adopt Web 2.0 services and the perceived and actual benefits of such adoption.Method: A survey questionnaire was sent to 1712 South African CSOs listed in the Prodder database to explore why certain social media services were adopted and the perceived benefits thereof.Results: Internal reasons for the adoption of social media services by South African CSOs coalesce around organisational visibility and access to information. External reasons focus on organisations needing to become more relevant and more connected to like-minded organisations and initiatives.Conclusion: The pervasiveness of Web 2.0 technologies makes it inevitable that CSOs will have to restructure themselves to remain relevant.

Approaches to Development in M4D Studies

2015 ◽  
pp. 26-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jakob Svensson ◽  
Caroline Wamala Larsson
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Mobile Communication ◽  
Civic Participation ◽  
Developing Regions ◽  
Civil Society Organisations ◽  
Dialectical Approach ◽  
Economic Understanding ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Future Path

There is no doubt that the proliferation of mobile phones in developing regions has opened up a range of possibilities and new avenues for individuals, governments, development agencies and civil society organisations. But we also know that development is a disputed concept and conveys a range of different connotations. Therefore in this chapter we examine the areas, where mobile phones are discussed as vehicles for development (i.e. M4D), and how mobile communication is related to the idea(s) of development today. To examine this, we have reviewed M4D articles in three major conference series and open source journals during 2008-2012. Three dominant areas of M4D emerge out of our sample: livelihood, health and civic participation. We find that M4D is largely based on an economic understanding of development and biased towards techno-determinism. We conclude this chapter by suggesting a future path for studying the impact of mobile communication in developing regions, something what we label as a dialectical approach.

scholarly journals Against the Tide: Transnational Solidarity in Brexit Britain

2020 ◽  
pp. 181-207
Author(s):  
Simone Baglioni ◽  
Olga Biosca ◽  
Tom Montgomery
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Civil Society Organisations ◽  
Transnational Solidarity ◽  
Refugees And Asylum Seekers ◽  
The Unemployed ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Funding Cuts ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract This chapter discusses UK-based civil society organisations supporting vulnerable groups (migrants, refugees and asylum seekers; disabled people; and the unemployed) which have been on the front line of a decade of austerity and funding cuts. It does so by exploring the relationship between these organisations and policymakers; the impact of austerity on the organisations themselves; the mission and activities of these organisations and the cooperation between organisations at different scales (transnational, national and local). Our findings reveal a tale of ‘two Britains’: one of top-down policies and discourses which are anti-solidarity and re-activate decades-old discourses of dependency and deservingness; and another Britain of grassroots solidarity, (self-)organised from the bottom up, often in partnership with austerity-hit local government.

scholarly journals Civil Society Activism in Italy Across Different Fields: A Multifaceted Picture of Solidarity in Hard Times

2020 ◽  
pp. 61-89
Author(s):  
Nicola Maggini ◽  
Veronica Federico
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Daily Basis ◽  
Civil Society Organisations ◽  
Policy Domain ◽  
Hard Times ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Social Vulnerabilities ◽  
Transnational Solidarity ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Over the last years, Italian civil society organisations have been working on a daily basis to mitigate the impact of both the global economic crisis and the refugee crisis, which have increased social vulnerabilities. Relying on the data gathered through 30 in-depth interviews with transnational solidarity organisations’ representatives, this chapter analyses solidarity practices in three fields of activity: disability, unemployment and migration. Results show that solidarity attitudes, practices and discourses are strongly influenced by the policy domain in which the organisations are active. Furthermore, the crisis led organisations to search for new strategies and approaches, even though it has been an ineffective vector of transnationalisation due to lack of resources, and the necessity to cope with pressing needs at national and local level/s.

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