Public Sociology and Civil Society: Governance, Politics, and Power 1317253329, 9781317253327

During the past ten years the terms public sociology, civil society, and governance have been used with increasing frequ

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Public Sociology and Civil Society: Governance, Politics, and Power
1317253329, 9781317253327

Civil society is often expected to rise above historical and contemporary socio-economic forces such as the neoliberal e

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Civil society plays an increasingly powerful role in the global landscape, emerging as key actors in preventing and mana

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The concept of network has emerged as an intellectual centerpiece for our era. Network analysis also occupies a growing

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By demonstrating that Western conceptions of 'civil society' have provided the framework for interpreting soci

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This book examines the increasing impact of nongovernmental organisations and civil society on global and regional gover

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Remaking governance focuses on the dynamics of change as new strategies - active citizenship, public participation, part

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A groundbreaking exploration of biocitizenship. Citizenship has a long, complex relationship with the body. In recent ye

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Examining resettlement practices worldwide and drawing on contributions from anthropology, law, international relations,

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The corporate mega-mergers of the 1980s and 1990s raise many troubling questions for social scientists and legal scholar

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