ISBN:
9780415132183
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (253 p)
Series Statement:
European Association of Social Anthropologists
Parallel Title:
Print version Civil Society : Challenging Western Models
DDC:
301
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
〈I〉Civil Society〈/I〉 argues that civil society should not be studied as a separate, private realm in opposition to the state. To gain a better understanding, everyday social practices, power relations and shared moralities are examined
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: political society and civil anthropology; Money, morality and modes of civil society among American Mormons; How Ernest Gellner got mugged on the streets of London, or: civil society, the media and the quality of life; Anti-semitism and fear of the public sphere in a post-totalitarian society: East Germany; The shifting meanings of civil and civic society in Poland; Bringing civil society to an uncivilised place: citizenship regimes in Russia's Arctic frontier
Description / Table of Contents:
The social life of projects: importing civil society to AlbaniaCivic culture and Islam in urban Turkey; Gender, state and civil society in Jordan and Syria; The deployment of civil energy in Indonesia: assessment of an authentic solution; Community values and state cooptation: civil society in the Sichuan countryside; Making citizens in postwar Japan: national and local perspectives; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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