Exploring Civil Society

Abstract

Part 1: Introduction 1. Exploring Civil Society Internationally Part 2: Setting out the Argument 2. Putting Civil Society in its Place 3. The Problem with Civil Society or Putting Modern European History Back into Contemporary Debate 4. Civil Society in Multilingual Polities 5. In the Church of Civil Society Part 3: Owning the Concept: Latin America and Eastern Europe 6. Civil society in Latin-America: Uncivil, liberal and participatory models 7. Collective Action or Public Participation?: Civil Society and the public sphere in post transition Latin America 8. Civil Society in Eastern Europe: Growth without engagement Part 4: Western Europe and the United States: Rediscovering the concept 9. Civil Society in the United States of America: Prototype or exception? An essay on cultural self-understanding 10. In Paris, the Global Place Is No Longer Saint Germain des Pres: Civil society and the French debate 11. Western Europe: Democratic civil society versus neo-liberalism Part 5: Asia: Rooted or imported? 12. 'Old' and 'New' Civil Societies in Bangladesh 13. Seizing Spaces, Challenging Marginalization and Claiming Voice: New trends in civil society in China 14. Central Asian Fragmented Civil Society: Communal and neo-liberal forms in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan Part 6: Africa: Civil society as neo-colonialism? 15. On the evolution of civil society in Nigeria 16. Civil Society in South Africa 17. Civil Society in West Africa: Between discourse and reality Part 7: The Middle East: Civil society as emancipation? 18. Civil Society in Iran: Past, present and the future 19. Contractions of a Socio-cultural Reflex: Civil society in Turkey 20. Unfulfilled Aspirations: Civil society in Palestine 1993-98 Part 8: The Case for Global Civil Society 21. Globalization and Civil Society 22. Global Civil Society and Global Governmentality