Civil society as a site of performed identity

2017 ◽  
pp. 122-135
Author(s):  
Rashi Bhargava
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Performed Identity ◽  
A Site

scholarly journals Civil Society and State: A Historical Review

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 33-42
Author(s):  
Venugopal B Menon ◽  
Chinnu Jolly Jerome
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
New Left ◽  
Historical Review ◽  
World Order ◽  
Authoritarian Regimes ◽  
Strategic Action ◽  
The Face ◽  
A Site ◽  
The Relationship

The article attempts to trace the evolution of the concept of civil society. Drawing from the work of political philosophers from the classical period, the period of renaissance, scientific revolution, the period of Enlightenment in the 18th century, and ideologies from the Marxist and Gramscian discourses, the article demonstrates the shifts in the meaning and implications of the concept, its relations to public spaces, accountability, governance, normative ideals of state and the relationship between the state and its citizens. The article concludes its historical progression with the New Social Movements (NSMs), wherein the civil society became synonymous with strategic action to construct 'an alternative social and world order’, a site for problem solving. Other contenders who put forth a renewed interest in the resurgence of civil society were the New Left, who assigned civil society a role to defend people’s democratic will in the face of state power, and the neoliberals who considered civil society as a site for subversion from authoritarian regimes. The article finally concludes with a call for urgent attention towards reclaiming the authority of the civil society in education scenario.

Justice below the State: Civil Society as a Site of Justice

2015 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 915-936 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chiara Cordelli
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Distributive Justice ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
The State ◽  
Nation State ◽  
International Level ◽  
The Social ◽  
Theories Of Justice ◽  
A Site ◽  
Private Associations

In response to growing economic and political interdependence at the international level, contemporary theories of justice have debated whether the demands of distributive justice extend beyond the nation-state. This article addresses the reverse question: whether and how the demands of justice arise below the state, at the level of civil society associations. This question becomes pressing in light of the increasing fragmentation of national governance, and the resulting institutional interdependence between political institutions and private associations. The article argues that the extent to which these associations are directly bound by egalitarian principles depends on a complex set of factors, including their structure and size, their role in the social provision of important goods, and their institutional relation with political institutions.

scholarly journals The Governmentalization of the Trade Union and the Potential of Union-Based Resistance. The Case of Undocumented Migrant Domestic Workers in the Netherlands Making Rights Claims

2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (5) ◽  
pp. 596-615 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anja Eleveld ◽  
Franca Van Hooren
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Domestic Workers ◽  
Regulatory Control ◽  
Undocumented Migrant ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Analytical Category ◽  
The Right ◽  
A Site ◽  
Migrant Domestic Workers

Ambivalence about rights is well known: rights may both challenge existing injustices while simultaneously re-enforcing sovereign regulatory control over citizens. In this article, we focus on the paradox that potentially radical and transformative claims to rights are made at a site – civil society – that under liberal governmentality has increasingly become a site of government. By exploring the unionization of undocumented migrant domestic workers (MDWs) in the Netherlands, we aim to show how rights claims are shaped and controlled by civil society. Using the analytical category of (in)visibility, the case study discloses the dualistic role of the union. On the one hand, the union operated as a site of resistance supporting undocumented MDWs to make their rights claims. On the other hand, it operated as a site of government of the same undocumented MDWs by selectively promoting work-related rights claims and excluding more radical claims for the right to come and go.

Democracy, Partisanship, and Civil Society

2019 ◽  
pp. 166-184
Author(s):  
Sung Ho Kim
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Civic Education ◽  
Modern Democracy ◽  
Leadership Selection ◽  
Dynamic Culture ◽  
A Site

Weber is not generally recognized as a democratic theorist of civil society. Drawing from his religious and political writings, this chapter reconstructs his vision of pluralistically organized civil society. As such, Weber’s civil society was primarily a site of civic education and leadership selection where dynamic culture and a system of contestation would help arrest the bureaucratic petrification of modern democracy. Based on this reconstruction, Weber’s deeply political vision is brought to bear upon contemporary theories of civil society, including the partisanship theory of late, in order to explore the relevance of his politics of civil society in a time of troubled democracy.

Dalits Enter the Indian Markets as Owners of Capital

Asian Survey ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 55 (5) ◽  
pp. 1044-1069 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aseem Prakash
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
A Site ◽  
Indian Form

Dalits find themselves included in India’s markets at adverse terms, due to the lack of social networks based on caste locations. This paper argues for considering caste as a specific Indian form of civil society—as a site of accumulation.

scholarly journals Global Civil Society

2011 ◽  
Vol 38 (6) ◽  
pp. 69-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Afef Benessaieh
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Nongovernmental Organizations ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Global Civil Society ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
International Donor ◽  
Donor Agencies ◽  
A Site

Extensive socio-ethnographic fieldwork among nongovernmental organizations, international donor agencies, and Church-related organizations in Chiapas, Mexico, suggests that global civil society—as an imagined terrain of transnational social action—can be viewed both as a site of expanded possibilities for social action and as a source of significant new constraints. It is a terrain where not all ideas and values are heard, promoted, or given legitimacy. There is, however, a transnationally resonant language into which Southern activists need to translate their issues and concerns if they wish to be heard.

Challenging Global Environmental Governance: Social Movement Agency and Global Civil Society

2003 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 120-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucy H. Ford
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Global Civil Society ◽  
Toxic Waste ◽  
Global Environmental Governance ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
A Site

In line with a critical theoretical perspective, which sees global environmental governance as embedded in the wider neoliberal global political economy, this article argues that accounts of global environmental governance grounded in orthodox International Relations lack an analysis of agency and power relations. This is particularly visible in the problematic assertion that global civil society—where social movements are said to be located—presents a democratizing force for global environmental governance. Through a critical conceptualization of agency the article analyzes social movements (including NGOs) and the challenges to global environmental governance, with an illustration of movements campaigning against toxic waste. It suggests that the potentiality of radical social movement agency is best understood through a neo-Gramscian approach, which identifies global civil society as simultaneously a site for the maintenance of, as well as challenges to, hegemony. It explores the extent to which global social movements constitute a counter-hegemonic challenge.

Performing the Village Square in Interwar Japan: Toward a Hidden History of Public Space

2011 ◽  
Vol 70 (3) ◽  
pp. 754-777
Author(s):  
Hoyt Long
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Strong Correlation ◽  
Rural Youth ◽  
Popular Protest ◽  
History Of ◽  
A Site ◽  
The Village

Histories of public space generally assume a strong correlation between the health of a nation's civil society and the vibrancy of its public sites, in so much as the latter provide an observable venue for free assembly and popular protest. This essay, while not opposing such a view, offers a corrective to the kind of history it encourages, wherein public space appears politically relevant only at its most visible moments. Framing the analysis is Japanese provincial writer Miyazawa Kenji (1896–1933) and his “Poran no hiroba” (Poran's Square), which survives as a piece of school theater and an evolving prose narrative about a rural youth who reclaims for his agrarian community a site of shared assembly. By interrogating public space as an object of the literary and theatrical imagination, specifically in the context of interwar rural Japan, the author argues that its less visible aspects have much to tell us about its relation to civil society, both perceived and actual, in the waning years of “Imperial Democracy.”

scholarly journals Civil Society Organizations and Care of the Self: An Ethnographic Case Study on Emancipation and Participation in Drug Treatment

2015 ◽  
pp. 96-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Riikka Perälä
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Drug Treatment ◽  
Drug Users ◽  
Civil Society Organizations ◽  
The Self ◽  
Care Of The Self ◽  
A Site ◽  
User Friendly ◽  
Treatment Policies

Foucauldian analyses of civil society depart from classical approaches in that they don´t consider civil society to be a site of societal change or resistance as classical analyses do, but rather one of society’s multiple locations where so-called governmentality hits the ground. Although Foucauldian investigations have provided the prevailing discussion with a necessary departure from excessively idealistic images of civil society organizations as sites of resistance and societal transformation, what may have resulted in turn are overly pessimistic analyses that have overlooked the emancipatory aspects of civil society organizations as sites where Foucauldian “care of the self” becomes possible. This article provides the reader with an analysis of these kind of aspects in civil society organizations’ work and, more importantly, of the conditions of their existence. The study contributes to the prevailing discussion by offering examples of the possibilities that civil society organizations have to act as a counterbalance and addition to states institutions. The context is Finnish drug treatment policies that took a client-centered and user-friendly approach at the turn of 21st century. Since then new kinds of methods to work with drug users have been initiated, which have helped the users to recast their identities and find new ways of living as a drug user.

Eels Under Standing Wave Conditions

1982 ◽  
Vol 40 ◽  
pp. 492-495
Author(s):  
O.L. Krivanek ◽  
J. TaftØ
Keyword(s):  
Standing Wave ◽  
Wave Conditions ◽  
Set Up ◽  
A Site ◽  
Complex Crystal

It is well known that a standing electron wavefield can be set up in a crystal such that its intensity peaks at the atomic sites or between the sites or in the case of more complex crystal, at one or another type of a site. The effect is usually referred to as channelling but this term is not entirely appropriate; by analogy with the more established particle channelling, electrons would have to be described as channelling either through the channels or through the channel walls, depending on the diffraction conditions.

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