Civil Society Responses to Changing Civic Spaces
This open access book contributes to thriving debates in academic as well as professional circles about the role of civil society in shrinking civic spaces, rising authoritarianism and right-wing populism, conflicts, fragile states, and most lately, the global COVID-19 pandemic. This is one of the f...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Palgrave Macmillan
2023, 2023
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2023 |
| Series: | EADI Global Development Series
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Part I: Conceptualizing civil society and civic space
- 1. Introduction: Civil society responses to changing civic spaces
- 2. Interrogating civic space: Applying a civic-driven change perspective
- 3. Repertoires of the possible: Citizen action in challenging settings
- Part II: Contextual dynamics of civic space
- 4. Philanthropy during Covid-19 emergency: Towards a postcolonial perspective?
- 5. Sandwiched? Sri Lankan civic space amidst a repressive regime and a pandemic
- 6. Negotiating CSO-legitimacy in Tanzanian civic space
- 7. Spaces for peace in Mitrovica, Kosovo: Women’s voices for change
- 8. The Algerian Hirak: Civil society and the role of artists in a civic space under pressure
- 9. Constrained humanitarian space in Rohingya response: Views from Bangladeshi NGOs
- Part III: Global connections and local civic space
- 10. Advocacy in constrained settings. Rethinking contextuality
- 11. The changing Amazonian civic space: Where soy meets resistance
- 12. Local civilsociety initiatives for peacebuilding in North-East Congo
- 13. Conclusions: Spaces of hope and despair?