ISBN:
9783030711474
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (317 pages)
Series Statement:
Knowledge and Space Ser. v.17
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DDC:
306.4/2
Keywords:
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Abstract:
Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Contributors -- Chapter 1: The Place of Civil Society in the Creation of Knowledge -- Knowledge and Civil Society -- Looking for Civil Society in Unexpected Places -- The Book's Structure -- Conclusion -- References -- Part I: (Re-)Thinking Civil Society -- Chapter 2: The Dialectic of Civil and Uncivil Society-Fragility, Fault Lines, and Countervailing Forces -- Fragility: The Civil and Uncivil Society -- The Inherent Fragility of the Civil Society -- The Liberal Account -- Alexis de Tocqueville -- The post-1989 revival -- Democratic Despotism -- Individualism and untamed markets -- Inequality and tyranny -- Summary: Associative and Dissociative Effects in the Civil Society -- The structural and normative dimension of the civil society -- The Need for Countervailing Moral Forces -- The Tocqueville-Kahan Thesis -- Böckenförde and Habermas -- Conservative and Liberal Readings of the "Dictum" -- Arresting the Slide to Incivility: Recovering the Politics of the Mean -- References -- Chapter 3: Civil Society as an Agent of Change -- The Domain of Civil Society -- The Unique Contribution -- The Trust Issue -- The Iconic Turn -- References -- Chapter 4: Undone Science and Smart Cities: Civil Society Perspectives on Risk and Emerging Technologies -- Background Concepts -- Grassroots Anti-Smart-Meter Mobilizations -- Privacy Organizations -- EMF Risk Organizations -- Conclusions -- References -- Part II: Analyzing Civil Society Organizations -- Chapter 5: Specialists for Crumble Cakes? The German LandFrauen Organizations in Social Innovation, and as Educational, Social, and Political Institutions -- Social Innovation as a Research Perspective -- New Solutions for Society, Unfolding in Practices -- Social Innovation as Embedded and Contextualized Phenomenon.
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