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almahu_9949747877502882
Format:
1 online resource (162 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781447356516
Series Statement:
Civil Society and Social Change Series
Content:
Drawing on place-based field investigations and new empirical analysis, this original book investigates civil society at local level.
Note:
Front Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Local Civil Society: Place, Time and Boundaries -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- List of figures -- Notes on the authors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Sites, methods and data -- Organisation of the book -- 1 Civil society as a field of local action -- Defining civil society -- Emergence and development of the concept -- Late 20th- and early 21st-century reformulations -- Civil society, public sphere and the national scale -- Global and transnational civil society -- Local-global interconnectedness: progressive and regressive local civil society -- Place, rural-urban distinctions and the nature of community -- Conclusion -- 2 Community and local civil society: time, continuity and change -- Substantive elements of local civil society in the context of social change -- Time, place and the un/civil nature of community -- Local civil society and comparing communities across time and place -- Local civil society in comparative perspective: from neighbourhood to neighbourhoodism -- Local civil society in comparative perspective: homogeneous and heterogeneous communities -- Continuities and discontinuities in selected recent local studies -- Conclusion -- 3 Uncovering local civil society in two Welsh villages -- The 'village' as local civil society -- A tale of two villages -- Contextual factors -- History -- Socio-economic profiles -- Self-image and perceptions -- Local civil society structures -- Local civil society practice -- Conclusion -- 4 Civil society through the narratives of place and time -- Narrating civil society -- Symbolic universes of everyday life -- Case 1: Ifor and the case of Nene -- Rhos through the eyes of Ifor -- Case 2: Linda and the case of the Overton Oracle -- Overton from Linda's perspective.
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Nostalgic narratives of the place and the organisation of civil social actions -- Civil society in the narrative of nostalgia -- Preserving the past: the case of Rhos -- Securing continuity for the future: the case of Overton -- Nostalgic narratives and implications for civil society actions -- Conclusion -- 5 Civil society and local associational life -- The question of associations -- Associations in Rhos -- Bowling in Rhos -- The Community Café -- Nene community newspaper -- The Stiwt -- Overton associations -- The La Murette and Overton-on-Dee Twinning Association -- Women's Institute -- Parish church -- Community councillor -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- 6 The entwining of civil society, economy and state at local levels -- Stratification in the context of civil society participation -- Civil society across the life cycle -- Gendered economic relations -- Class and place -- Biographies of civil society in action -- William's case: the mining heritage of Rhos -- Cai's case: the Rhos Christmas Panto -- Susan's case: the issue of new development in Overton -- Karen's case: motherhood in Overton -- Linking economy and state with the analysis of civil society participation -- Civil society as reaction to economic change -- Local entrepreneurship: generating and pulling in external resources -- Economic solidarities -- Linking state and institutions to the analysis of civil society participation -- The role of policy interventions -- Policy protectionism -- Policy alignment -- Co-opting local leadership -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index -- Back Cover.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Mann, Robin Local Civil Society Bristol : Policy Press,c2022 ISBN 9781447356486
Language:
English
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