A research agenda for civil society / / edited by Kees Biekart and Alan Fowler.

"Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary. Mapping a wide range of civil society research perspec...

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Superior document:Elgar Research Agendas
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Place / Publishing House:Northampton : : Edward Elgar Publishing,, 2022.
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Elgar Research Agendas
Physical Description:1 online resource (332 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • Tables
  • Contributors
  • 1 A research agenda for civil society: introduction and overview
  • PART I - Studying civil society
  • 2 Funding civil society research
  • 3 Epistemologies of civil society
  • 4 Civil society studies in Brazil: from third sector to uncivil society?
  • 5 Civic deviance and lawlessness: the aftermath of January 6, 2021
  • 6 Measuring the values of civil society in the Middle East and North Africa region
  • 7 Mapping civil society
  • PART II - Civil society typologies
  • 8 Human rights organizations and civil society
  • 9 From humanitarian diplomacy to advocacy: a research agenda
  • 10 NGOs and innovation
  • 11 Emergent agency in a time of Covid
  • 12 Civil society and (re‑)embedding volunteering
  • 13 The value of diasporic cross-border philanthropy and voluntourism
  • 14 New and fluid forms of organizing volunteering
  • 15 Public administration as a site of struggle for social justice
  • PART III - Historiographies of civil society
  • 16 Pro-social giving and reciprocity in the Global South
  • 17 Connecting African civil society to its roots
  • 18 Understanding diversity of South Caucasus civil society
  • 19 The Polish case: from darling to endangered species?
  • 20 Civil society in the Southern Cone of Latin America
  • 21 The future of civil society research in China, Hong Kong and Vietnam
  • PART IV - Conclusions
  • 22 Civil society research: future perspectives
  • Index.