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Civil Society Challenging Western Models
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Routledge
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Routledge
256 Pages
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Routledge
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Between kinship ties on the one hand and the state on the other, human beings experience a diversity of social relationships and groupings which in modern western thought have come to be gathered under the label 'civil society'. A liberal-individualist model of civil society has become fashionable in recent years, but what can such a term mean in the late twentieth century? Civil Society argues... Read more
Introduction Political society and civil anthropology Chris Hann 1. Money, morality and modes of civil society among American Mormons Elizabeth Dunn 2. How Ernest Gellner got mugged on the streets of London, Or civil society, the media and the quality of life Peter Loizos 3. Anti-semitism and fear of the public sphere in a post-totalitarian society: East Germany Susanne Spuelbeck 4. The shifting meanings of civil and civic society in Poland Michal Buchowski 5. Bringing civil society to an uncivilised place: Citizenship regimes in Russia's Arctic frontier David G. Anderson 6. The social life of projects: Importing civil society to Albania Steven Sampson 7. Civic culture and Islam in urban Turkey Jenny B. White 8. Gender, state and civil society in Jordan and Syria Annika Rabo 9. The deployment of civil energy in Indonesia: Assessment of an authentic solution Leo Schmit 10. Community values and state co-operation: Civil society in the Sichuan countryside John Flower and Pamela Leonard 11. Making citizens in postwar Japan: National and local perspectives John Knight Index.
Biography
Chris Hann is Professor of Social Anthropology and Dean of Social Sciences, University of Kent; Elizabeth Dunn is a Doctoral candidate at John Hopkins University, Baltimore
