scholarly journals Introduction: Shrinking Civic Space in Indonesia

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Al Khanif
Keyword(s):  
Civic Space

Music and Civic Space: The Political Harp

Public Voices ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Dennard
Keyword(s):  
Public Culture ◽  
The Political ◽  
Intellectual Life ◽  
Irish Society ◽  
University College ◽  
Direct Outcome ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Civic Space

In Irish culture, the Celtic Harp is a metaphor for human struggle, freedom and intellectual life and, as such, is inextricably bound to politics. Separating Irish society from its politics, the birth of its government and music is simply not possible. Having a conference on Music and Civic Space in Ireland made a kind of sense in this way. In May 2005, an interdisciplinary group of international scholars were invited to University College Cork by the Department of Government to discuss the relationship between music and governance and, in particular, music’s role in creating public culture. The symposium offered here to the readers of Public Voices is a product and a direct outcome of the conference.

scholarly journals The Selective Closure of Civic Space

Global Policy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (S5) ◽  
pp. 23-33
Author(s):  
Conny Roggeband ◽  
Andrea Krizsán
Keyword(s):  
Civic Space

scholarly journals The Impact of Neoliberalism on Civil Society and Nonprofit Advocacy

2020 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Alexander ◽  
Kandyce Fernandez
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Representative Democracy ◽  
Pivotal Role ◽  
Political Advocacy ◽  
Critical Inquiry ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Civic Space ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Nonprofit Advocacy

AbstractThe following manuscript employs critical inquiry to analyze the effects of neoliberalism on nonprofits in the U.S. and their capacity to engage in political advocacy and the production of meaning, a pivotal role for civil society institutions. Three false narratives of how nonprofits support democracy are presented followed by a discussion of how neoliberalism and the economization of the sector has delimited their capacity to fulfill their roles of engaging in emancipatory projects or social change. The manuscript concludes with a discussion of how nonprofits can reclaim civic space and empower citizens in a representative democracy.

‘Public Service’ in a Globalised Digital Landscape

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ingrid Volkmer
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Global Citizenship ◽  
Global Civil Society ◽  
Public Communication ◽  
Civic Space ◽  
Digital Landscape

This chapter calls for the need to begin the debate on the requirements of national public service media in the new discursive scopes of public ‘civic’ communication. In other words, it is necessary to begin to assess public service as no longer being only in the normative national parameter of territorial ‘boundedness’, but as a much needed civic space within today's sphere of globalised public communication. The BBC's public remit is still embedded in a bounded conception of the nation. For example, one aim of the BBC's remit is to sustain citizenship and civil society. However, given today's networked structures of communication, citizenship is also perceived as global citizenship, and relates not only to national responsibilities but rather to new responsibilities in a global civil society.

The Widening and Narrowing of Egypt’s Civic Space

2020 ◽  
pp. 50-78
Author(s):  
Catherine E. Herrold
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Political Reform ◽  
Civil Society Organizations ◽  
Organized Activities ◽  
Philanthropic Foundations ◽  
Civic Space

Chapter 2 begins in the wake of Hosni Mubarak’s overthrow when Egyptian citizens expressed a newfound desire to participate in bringing freedom and democracy to the country. It goes on to show how Egyptian NGOs and foundations perceived an opportunity to play an important role in harnessing that energy and involving activists in organized activities related to democratic political reform. Yet by late 2011, Egypt’s transitional government began to crack down on the NGO sector even more harshly than the Mubarak regime had. In addition, Egypt’s economy declined precipitously. Chapter 2 lays out the opportunities and challenges that the 2011 uprisings created for Egyptian civil society organizations and briefly describes how two sets of donors—Western aid organizations and Egyptian philanthropic foundations—responded in the months following Mubarak’s removal.

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