Challenging The Third Sector : : Global Prospects For Active Citizenship / / Sue Kenny, Marilyn Taylor, Jenny Onyx, Marjorie Mayo.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol University Press Complete eBook-Package 2015
• VerfasserIn: Kenny, Sue,; Onyx, Jenny,; Taylor, Marilyn,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)
• Other title: Front Matter --; Contents --; About the authors --; Acknowledgements --; Preface --; Introduction --; Exploring concepts and contexts --; Active citizenship --; Civil society and the third sector --; Third sector organisations nurturing active citizenship: the claims --; The third sector in context --; Forms of active citizenship --; Active citizenship as civil commitment --; Active citizenship as civil commitment: cultural considerations --; Active citizenship as activism: political engagement through the third sector --; Active citizens, social movements and social transformation --; New forms of active citizenship: emerging forms and challenges --; Active citizenship and the emergence of networks --; Shifting paradigms --; W(h)ither the third sector? --; References --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781447316923; 9783111196428
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Sue Kenny, Marilyn Taylor, Jenny Onyx, Marjorie Mayo.

This is the first book to explore the different relationships between active citizenship and civil society, particularly the third sector within civil society. In what ways can the third sector nurture active citizenship? How have the third sector and active citizenship been constructed and reconstructed both locally and internationally, over recent years? To what extent have new kinds of social connectedness, changing forms of political engagement and increasingly complex social and environmental problems influenced civil society action? Written by experts in the field, this important book draws on a range of theory and empirical studies to explore these questions in different socio-political contexts and will be a useful resource for academics and students as well as practitioners.