Civil society : challenging western models / / edited by Chris Hann and Elizabeth Dunn

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1996
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (253 p.)
• Disciplina: 301; 306.2
• Soggetto topico: Civil society
• Altri autori: HannC. M. <1953-> DunnElizabeth
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: political society and civil anthropology; Money, morality and modes of civil society among American Mormons; How Ernest Gellner got mugged on the streets of London, or: civil society, the media and the quality of life; Anti-semitism and fear of the public sphere in a post-totalitarian society: East Germany; The shifting meanings of civil and civic society in Poland; Bringing civil society to an uncivilised place: citizenship regimes in Russia's Arctic frontier ; The social life of projects: importing civil society to AlbaniaCivic culture and Islam in urban Turkey; Gender, state and civil society in Jordan and Syria; The deployment of civil energy in Indonesia: assessment of an authentic solution; Community values and state cooptation: civil society in the Sichuan countryside; Making citizens in postwar Japan: national and local perspectives; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Between kinship ties on the one hand and the state on the other, human beings experience a diversity of social relationships and groupings which in modern western thought have come to be gathered under the label 'civil society'. A liberal-individualist model of civil society has become fashionable in recent years, but what can such a term mean in the late twentieth century? Civil Society argues that civil society should not be studied as a separate, 'private' realm clearly separated in opposition to the state; nor should it be confined to the institutions of the 'voluntary' or 'no
• Titolo autorizzato: Civil society
• ISBN: 1-134-82708-3; 1-134-82709-1; 0-415-13218-5; 1-280-05009-8; 0-203-63386-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910305558703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: European Association of Social Anthropologists