Local civil society : : place, time and boundaries / / Robin Mann, [and four others].

• VerfasserIn: Mann, Robin,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol : : Policy Press,, [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Civil society and social change
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (viii, 151 pages) :; illustrations, maps.

"Drawing on place-based field investigations and new empirical analysis, this original book investigates civil society at local level. The concept of civil society is contested and multifaceted, and this text offers assessment and clarification of debates concerning the intertwining of civil society, the state and local community relations. Analysing two Welsh villages, the authors examine the importance of identity, connection with place and the impact of social and spatial boundaries on the everyday production of civil society. Bringing into focus questions of biography and temporality, the book provides an innovative account of continuities and changes within local civil society during social and economic transformation."-- Publisher description.

Table of Contents

Front Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Local Civil Society: Place, Time and Boundaries -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- List of figures -- Notes on the authors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Sites, methods and data -- Organisation of the book -- 1 Civil society as a field of local action -- Defining civil society -- Emergence and development of the concept -- Late 20th- and early 21st-century reformulations -- Civil society, public sphere and the national scale -- Global and transnational civil society Local-global interconnectedness: progressive and regressive local civil society -- Place, rural-urban distinctions and the nature of community -- Conclusion -- 2 Community and local civil society: time, continuity and change -- Substantive elements of local civil society in the context of social change -- Time, place and the un/civil nature of community -- Local civil society and comparing communities across time and place -- Local civil society in comparative perspective: from neighbourhood to neighbourhoodism Local civil society in comparative perspective: homogeneous and heterogeneous communities -- Continuities and discontinuities in selected recent local studies -- Conclusion -- 3 Uncovering local civil society in two Welsh villages -- The 'village' as local civil society -- A tale of two villages -- Contextual factors -- History -- Socio-economic profiles -- Self-image and perceptions -- Local civil society structures -- Local civil society practice -- Conclusion -- 4 Civil society through the narratives of place and time -- Narrating civil society -- Symbolic universes of everyday life Case 1: Ifor and the case of Nene -- Rhos through the eyes of Ifor -- Case 2: Linda and the case of the Overton Oracle -- Overton from Linda's perspective -- Nostalgic narratives of the place and the organisation of civil social actions -- Civil society in the narrative of nostalgia -- Preserving the past: the case of Rhos -- Securing continuity for the future: the case of Overton -- Nostalgic narratives and implications for civil society actions -- Conclusion -- 5 Civil society and local associational life -- The question of associations -- Associations in Rhos -- Bowling in Rhos The Community Café -- Nene community newspaper -- The Stiwt -- Overton associations -- The La Murette and Overton-on-Dee Twinning Association -- Women's Institute -- Parish church -- Community councillor -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- 6 The entwining of civil society, economy and state at local levels -- Stratification in the context of civil society participation -- Civil society across the life cycle -- Gendered economic relations -- Class and place -- Biographies of civil society in action -- William's case: the mining heritage of Rhos -- Cai's case: the Rhos Christmas Panto.