Format:
Online-Ressource (XVIII, 490 p. 19 illus., 16 illus. in color, online resource)
ISBN:
9781461482628
Series Statement:
Nonprofit and Civil Society Studies, An International Multidisciplinary Series 20
Content:
This volume brings together the most up to date analyses of civil society in Africa from the best scholars and researchers working on the subject. Being the first of its kind, it casts a panoramic look at the African continent, drawing out persisting, if often under-communicated, variations in regional discourses. In a majority of notionally ‘global’ studies, Africa has received marginal attention, a marginality often highlighted by the usual token chapter. Filling a critical hiatus, the Handbook of Civil Society in Africa takes Africa, African developments, and African perspectives very seriously and worthy of academic interrogation in their own right. It offers a critical, clear-sighted perspective on civil society in Africa, and positions African discourses within the framework of important regional and global debates. It promises to be an invaluable reference work for researchers and practitioners working in the fields of civil society, nonprofit studies, development studies, volunteerism, civic service, and African studies. Endorsements: "This volume signposts a critical turning point in the renewed engagement with the theory and practice of civil society in Africa. Moving from traditional concerns with disquisitions on the appropriateness and possibility of the existence and vibrancy of the idea of civil society on the continent, the volume approaches the forms, contents, and features of the actually existing civil society in Africa from thematic, regional, and national angles. It demonstrates clearly the extent to which core intellectual work on civil society in Africa has largely moved from concerns with cultural reductionism to a nuanced examination of the complexities of (formal, non-formal, organizational, non-organizational, traditional, newer, usual, unusual) engagements, detailing the extent to which, over time, civil society as a concept has been indigenized, appropriated and adapted in the terrains of politics, society, economy, culture and new technologies on the continent. In all this, the book accomplishes the near-impossible. Without sacrificing the vigour, rigor and freshness of the often unpredictable fruits of up-to-date research into regional and national differences that crop up in the documentation of Africa's multiple realities and discourses, the volume weaves together a rich tapestry of the historical, theoretical and practical dimensions of an expanding civil society sector, and accompanying growth in popular d ...
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Description based upon print version of record
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Contents; Contributors; Chapter 1 Introduction: Turning the Table on Gellner: Alternative Discourses of Civil Society in Africa; References; Part I Core Themes; Chapter 2 Escape from Tyranny: Civil Societyand Democratic Struggles in Africa; Civil Society Across the Continent: Beset, but Vibrant; Civil Society in Ghana: Setting the Agenda for Reform; Uganda: Civil Society Under Siege; Nigeria: Stuck in the Middle; Analysis: Accenting the Positives; Conclusions; References; Chapter 3 Civil Society and Religion; Democratizing Religious Authority; Between Affiliation and Autonomy
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Development Dollars and African Faith-Based Initiatives: Religious Elites Remade?Conclusion; References; Chapter 4 Theorizing Media as/and Civil Society in Africa; Introduction; Conceptualizing the Relationship Between Media and Civil Society; Conceptualizing Civil Society in Africa; Dominant Approaches to Media and Civil Society in Africa; Toward An Alternative Research Agenda on Media and Civil Society in Africa; Broadening Our Definition of Media; Widening Our Definition of Civil Society; Historicizing Relations Between Media and Civil Society; Conclusion; References
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Chapter 5 ``Good'' State, ``Bad'' State: Loss and Longing in Postcolonial ZimbabweA Complex Relation to the State; Seven Stories of the Bad State; Stories of the (Lost) Good State; Conclusion; References; Chapter 6 NGO Accountability in Africa; Foundations of Accountability; Accountability to Whom?; The Challenge of Nongovernmental OrganizationsAccountability; Nurturing a Sense of Accountability in AfricanNongovernmental Organizations; Distortions Due to Donor Accountability Demands; Distortions Due to Government Accountability Demands; Self-Regulation as a Potential Solution
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Community Participation as a Potential SolutionConclusion and Agenda for Further Research; References; Part II Regional Perspectives; Chapter 7 Civil Society in the Maghreb: Lessons from the Arab Spring; Introduction; The Idea; Legitimacy in Crisis; From Clashes to Consolidation; Divisions and Co-Optation in the 2000s; Conclusion: Civil Society and the Arab Spring in the Maghreb; References; Chapter 8 Civil Society Organizations and the State in East Africa: From the Colonial to the Modern Era; Introduction; Origins of CSOs in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania; Independence
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The Advent of Multiparty PoliticsThe Contemporary Context: State--CSOs Collaborations; State and Marginalized Groups; Challenges and Constraints; Regulations; Inclusivity and Diversity; CSOs' Internal Dynamics; Dependency; Conclusion; References; Chapter 9 Civil Society and the Politics of Belongingin Southern Africa; The Applicability of Civil Society in Southern Africa; Determining the Civil Society Agenda; Organised Civil Society and Claims to Belonging; Unorganised Civil Society and Claims to Belonging; Conclusions; References
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Chapter 10 Building Civil Society in West Africa:Notes from the Field
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Chapter 1: Introduction: Turning the Table on Gellner: Alternative Discourses of Civil Society in Africa- Ebenezer ObadareSection I: Core Themes -- Chapter 2: Escape from Tyranny: Civil Society and Democratic Struggles in Africa- Darren Kew and Modupe Oshikoya -- Chapter 3: Civil Society and Religion- Shobana Shankar -- Chapter 4: Theorizing media as/and civil society in Africa- Wendy Willems -- Chapter 5: ‘Good’ State, ‘Bad’ State: Loss and Longing in Postcolonial Zimbabwe- Julia Gallagher -- Chapter 6: NGO Accountability in Africa- Ronelle Burger and Dineo Seabe -- Section II: Regional Perspectives -- Chapter 7: Civil Society in North Africa- James Sater -- Chapter 8: Civil Society Organizations and the State in East Africa: From the Colonial to the Modern Era- Priscilla Wamucii -- Chapter 9: Civil Society and the Politics of Belonging in Southern Africa- Daniel Hammett -- Chapter 10: Building Civil Society in West Africa: Notes from the Field -Titilope Mamattah -- Chapter 11: Civil Society in Zimbabwe and ‘Most of the World’- Kirk Helliker -- Chapter 12: Viral Messaging, Satire, and Spaces of Resistance in Nigeria- Carole Enahoro -- Chapter 13: Civil Society and Conflict in West Africa- Niklas Hultin -- Section III: Civil Society in the Shadow of Neoliberalism -- Chapter 14: Neoliberalism and the Forms of Civil Society in Kenya and South Africa- Jacob Mati -- Chapter 15: Africa Rising? Afro-Optimism and Uncivil Society in an Era of Economic Volatility- Patrick Bond -- Chapter 16: Civil Society and Neoliberalism- Usman A. Tar -- Section IV: After Development: Gender, Sexuality, and Civic Change -- Chapter 17: Popular Organizations in South Africa: from civics to service delivery protests- Elke Zuern -- Chapter 18: “If Good Food is cooked in One Country, We Will All Eat from It:” Women and Civil Society in Africa- Hannah Britton and Taylor Price -- Chapter 19: NGOs, Civil Society and Development- Badru Bukenya and Samuel Hickey -- Chapter 20: Civil Society and Sexual Struggles in Africa- Ashley Currier and Joëlle M. Cruz -- Chapter 21: Civil Society’s Response to the HIV/AIDS Crisis in Africa- Richard G. Wamai -- Chapter 22: Orature as a Site for Civil Contestation: Film and the Decolonization of Space and Place in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Kare Kare Zvako (Mother’s Day) 2005- Bunmi Oyinsan -- Section V: Aid, Volunteering and Philanthropy -- Chapter 23: Civil Society and Aid in Africa: A case of mistaken identity? - Alan Fowler -- Chapter 24: Volunteering, Civic Service and Civil Society in Africa- Helene Perold and Lauren Graham -- Chapter 25: Philanthropic Foundations and Civil Society in Sub-Saharan Africa- Christiana Atibil -- Chapter 26: Volunteering, Civic Agency and Citizenship in Africa- Ebenezer Obadare.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781461482611
Additional Edition:
Druckausg. The handbook of civil society in Africa New York : Springer, 2014 ISBN 1461482615
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781461482611
Language:
English
Subjects:
Political Science
DOI:
10.1007/978-1-4614-8262-8
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