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A Research Agenda for Civil Society
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Mapping a wide range of civil society research perspectives, this pioneering Research Agenda offers a rich and clear insight for academics and practitioners hoping to embark on future civil society research. Kees Biekart and Alan Fowler bring together over 20 expert contributions from researchers across the globe who are actively engaged in testing the old and generating new knowledge about civil society.
Mapping a wide range of civil society research perspectives, this pioneering Research Agenda offers a rich and clear insight for academics and practitioners hoping to embark on future civil society research. Kees Biekart and Alan Fowler bring together over 20 expert contributions from researchers across the globe who are actively engaged in testing the old and generating new knowledge about civil society.
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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 perspectives, this pioneering Research Agenda offers a rich and clear insight for academics and practitioners hoping to embark on future civil society research. Kees Biekart and Alan Fowler bring together over 20 expert contributions from researchers across the globe who are actively engaged in testing the old and generating new knowledge about civil society.
Beginning with a concise historical review of civil society research over the last four decades, the book provides a critical insight into the future of research, taking into account the domestic outcomes of major geopolitical changes and the increasing shift towards authoritarian and populist systems of governance. Exploring the norms and values of civil society, as well as key topics such as voluntourism, civil society mapping, democratization, and civic agency, chapters offer a unique overview of civil society research themes and agendas. Its comprehensive analysis of canonical civil society research provides a fertile basis from which novel research can be conducted.
A wide audience of development professionals, including NGO staff, consultants, evaluators, and public servants, will benefit from the forward-looking perspectives advanced in this dynamic Research Agenda. It will also be an essential resource for academics and researchers in the field.
Mapping a wide range of civil society research perspectives, this pioneering Research Agenda offers a rich and clear insight for academics and practitioners hoping to embark on future civil society research. Kees Biekart and Alan Fowler bring together over 20 expert contributions from researchers across the globe who are actively engaged in testing the old and generating new knowledge about civil society.
Beginning with a concise historical review of civil society research over the last four decades, the book provides a critical insight into the future of research, taking into account the domestic outcomes of major geopolitical changes and the increasing shift towards authoritarian and populist systems of governance. Exploring the norms and values of civil society, as well as key topics such as voluntourism, civil society mapping, democratization, and civic agency, chapters offer a unique overview of civil society research themes and agendas. Its comprehensive analysis of canonical civil society research provides a fertile basis from which novel research can be conducted.
A wide audience of development professionals, including NGO staff, consultants, evaluators, and public servants, will benefit from the forward-looking perspectives advanced in this dynamic Research Agenda. It will also be an essential resource for academics and researchers in the field.
Critical Acclaim
‘A Research Agenda for Civil Society provides a much needed synopsis of the antecedents, internal contradictions, and promises of civil society within a comparative African-Global Southern Context. At a time of pervasive political and epistemological uncertainty, the book throws precious critical light on a subject of increasing academic and policy relevance.’
– Ebenezer Obadare, Council on Foreign Relations, US
‘This book represents an important effort to diversify our thinking about civil society and challenge common assumptions about its processes, constituent parts, and effects. It will be an essential addition to university libraries and courses worldwide.’
– Michael Edwards, writer and activist, UK
– Ebenezer Obadare, Council on Foreign Relations, US
‘This book represents an important effort to diversify our thinking about civil society and challenge common assumptions about its processes, constituent parts, and effects. It will be an essential addition to university libraries and courses worldwide.’
– Michael Edwards, writer and activist, UK
Contributors
Contributors: Mário Aquino Alves, Susan Appe, Filippo Artuso, Katrina Barnes, Kees Biekart, Antoine Buyse, Galia Chimiak, Alan Fowler, John C.H. Godfrey, Veronica Gomez, Duncan Green, Irene Guijt, Ali Bakir Hamoudi, Dorothea Hilhorst, Cristine Dyhrberg Højgaard, W. King Mott, Stephanie A. Koolen-Maas, Pablo Marsal, Chris McInerney, Lucas Meijs, Patricia Maria E. Mendonça, Roseanne M. Mirabella, Shauna Mottiar, Malika Ouacha, Philine S.M. van Overbeeke, Yevgenya Jenny Paturyan, Mark Sidel, Ana Luísa Silva, David Sogge, Margit van Wessel
Contents
Contents:
1 A research agenda for civil society: introduction
and overview 1
Kees Biekart and Alan Fowler
PART I STUDYING CIVIL SOCIETY
2 Funding civil society research 17
David Sogge
3 Epistemologies of civil society 33
Patricia Maria E. Mendonça
4 Civil society studies in Brazil: from third sector to
uncivil society? 45
Mário Aquino Alves
5 Civic deviance and lawlessness: the aftermath of
January 6, 2021 55
Roseanne Mirabella and W. King Mott
6 Measuring the values of civil society in the Middle
East and North Africa regions 69
Ali Bakir Hamoudi
7 Mapping civil society 83
Susan Appe
PART II CIVIL SOCIETY TYPOLOGIES
8 Human rights organizations and civil society 99
Antoine Buyse and Verónica Gómez
9 From humanitarian diplomacy to advocacy:
a research agenda 111
Dorothea Hilhorst and Margit van Wessel
10 NGOs and innovation 127
Ana Luisa Silva
11 Emergent agency in a time of Covid 143
Irene Guijt, Duncan Green, Filippo Artuso and Katrina Barnes
12 Civil society and (re‑)embedding volunteering 161
Lucas Meijs and Stephanie Koolen-Maas
13 The value of diasporic cross-border philanthropy
and voluntourism 173
Philine S.M. van Overbeeke and Malika Ouacha
14 New and fluid forms of organizing volunteering 189
Cristine Dyhrberg Højgaard
15 Public administration as a site of struggle for
social justice 201
Chris McInerney
PART III HISTORIOGRAPHIES OF CIVIL SOCIETY
16 Pro-social giving and reciprocity in the Global South 215
John C. H. Godfrey
17 Connecting African civil society to its roots 229
Alan Fowler and Shauna Mottiar
18 Understanding diversity of South Caucasus civil society 243
Yevgenya Jenny Paturyan
19 The Polish case: from darling to endangered species? 255
Galia Chimiak
20 Civil society in the Southern Cone of Latin America 271
Pablo Marsal Baraldi
21 The future of civil society research in China, Hong
Kong and Vietnam 283
Mark Sidel
PART IV CONCLUSIONS
22 Civil society research: future perspectives 295
Alan Fowler and Kees Biekart
Index
1 A research agenda for civil society: introduction
and overview 1
Kees Biekart and Alan Fowler
PART I STUDYING CIVIL SOCIETY
2 Funding civil society research 17
David Sogge
3 Epistemologies of civil society 33
Patricia Maria E. Mendonça
4 Civil society studies in Brazil: from third sector to
uncivil society? 45
Mário Aquino Alves
5 Civic deviance and lawlessness: the aftermath of
January 6, 2021 55
Roseanne Mirabella and W. King Mott
6 Measuring the values of civil society in the Middle
East and North Africa regions 69
Ali Bakir Hamoudi
7 Mapping civil society 83
Susan Appe
PART II CIVIL SOCIETY TYPOLOGIES
8 Human rights organizations and civil society 99
Antoine Buyse and Verónica Gómez
9 From humanitarian diplomacy to advocacy:
a research agenda 111
Dorothea Hilhorst and Margit van Wessel
10 NGOs and innovation 127
Ana Luisa Silva
11 Emergent agency in a time of Covid 143
Irene Guijt, Duncan Green, Filippo Artuso and Katrina Barnes
12 Civil society and (re‑)embedding volunteering 161
Lucas Meijs and Stephanie Koolen-Maas
13 The value of diasporic cross-border philanthropy
and voluntourism 173
Philine S.M. van Overbeeke and Malika Ouacha
14 New and fluid forms of organizing volunteering 189
Cristine Dyhrberg Højgaard
15 Public administration as a site of struggle for
social justice 201
Chris McInerney
PART III HISTORIOGRAPHIES OF CIVIL SOCIETY
16 Pro-social giving and reciprocity in the Global South 215
John C. H. Godfrey
17 Connecting African civil society to its roots 229
Alan Fowler and Shauna Mottiar
18 Understanding diversity of South Caucasus civil society 243
Yevgenya Jenny Paturyan
19 The Polish case: from darling to endangered species? 255
Galia Chimiak
20 Civil society in the Southern Cone of Latin America 271
Pablo Marsal Baraldi
21 The future of civil society research in China, Hong
Kong and Vietnam 283
Mark Sidel
PART IV CONCLUSIONS
22 Civil society research: future perspectives 295
Alan Fowler and Kees Biekart
Index
