Civic Activism Unleashed - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Civic Activism Unleashed write by Richard Youngs. This book was released on 2019-01-08. Civic Activism Unleashed available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. One of the signal events in global politics in the last decade has been the transformation of political and civic activism. Not only is the new activism qualitatively different in character from what it was in 2000; its intensity and frequency have dramatically increased. Activists are developing a new type of civic movement, applying innovative forms of direct action against governments and often operating without leaders or even any well-defined set of aims. In Civic Activism Unleashed, Carnegie scholar Richard Youngs examines the changing shape of contemporary civic activism. He shows how the emerging civic activism has important implications for the whole concept of civil society-and for the relationship between citizens, political institutions, and states. Youngs contends that the rise and spread of these new forms of direct-action civic activism, and the way the trend has driven the dramatic events in global politics in recent years, requires us to update our understanding of what civil society actually is and which types of organizations are in its vanguard. He further looks at the global impact of recent civic activism and offers a set of variables to help explain cases of success and failure. Youngs' larger aim is to explore in depth the new forms of civic activism that are emerging around the world and assess how they differ from more established practices of civil society activity. Theoretically ambitious and global in scope, Civic Activism Unleashed forces us to reconsider the nature of contemporary social and civic activism and how it is reshaping contentious politics in countries across the world.
Civic Activism in South Korea
Civic Activism in South Korea - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Civic Activism in South Korea write by Seungsook Moon. This book was released on 2024-07-16. Civic Activism in South Korea available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In recent decades, neoliberalism has transformed South Korean society, going far beyond simply restructuring the economy. In response, a number of civic organizations that emerged from the democratization movement with a conscious emphasis on social change have sought to address socioeconomic and political problems caused or aggravated by the neoliberal transformation. Examining how “citizens’ organizations” in South Korea negotiate with the market and neoliberal governance, Seungsook Moon offers new ways to understand the intricate relationship between democracy and neoliberalism as modes of ruling. She provides in-depth qualitative studies of three different types of organizations: a large national advocacy organization run by professional staff activists, two medium-size local branches of a national feminist organization run by mostly volunteer activists, and a small local organization run by volunteer activists with a focus on foreign migrants. Bringing together these rich empirical cases with deft theoretical analysis, Moon argues that neoliberalism and democracy are entwined in complex ways. Although neoliberalism undermines democratic practices of social equality by shrinking or destroying public resources, institutions, and space, it also can facilitate participatory practices that arise to fill needs left by privatization and deregulation as long as those practices do not seriously challenge the workings of capitalism. Showing how neoliberalism simultaneously enables and constrains civic activism, this book illuminates the contradictions of social engagement today, with global implications.
Japanese Constitutional Revisionism and Civic Activism
Japanese Constitutional Revisionism and Civic Activism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Japanese Constitutional Revisionism and Civic Activism write by Helen Hardacre. This book was released on 2021-06-01. Japanese Constitutional Revisionism and Civic Activism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Since the adoption of the 1947 Constitution of Japan, the document has become a contested symbol of contrasting visions of Japan. Japanese Constitutional Revisionism and Civic Activism is a volume which examines the history of Japan’s constitutional debates, key legal decisions and interpretations, the history and variety of activism, and activists’ ties to party politics and to fellow activists overseas.
Global Civic Activism in Flux
Global Civic Activism in Flux - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Global Civic Activism in Flux write by Richard Youngs. This book was released on 2017. Global Civic Activism in Flux available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Public and Its Possibilities
The Public and Its Possibilities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Public and Its Possibilities write by John D. Fairfield. This book was released on 2010-03-26. The Public and Its Possibilities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In his compelling reinterpretation of American history, The Public and Its Possibilities, John Fairfieldargues that our unrealized civic aspirations provide the essential counterpoint to an excessive focus on private interests. Inspired by the revolutionary generation, nineteenth-century Americans struggled to build an economy and a culture to complement their republican institutions. But over the course of the twentieth century, a corporate economy and consumer culture undercut civic values, conflating consumer and citizen. Fairfield places the city at the center of American experience, describing how a resilient demand for an urban participatory democracy has bumped up against the fog of war, the allure of the marketplace, and persistent prejudices of race, class, and gender. In chronicling and synthesizing centuries of U.S. history—including the struggles of the antislavery, labor, women’s rights movements—Fairfield explores the ebb and flow of civic participation, activism, and democracy. He revisits what the public has done for civic activism, and the possibility of taking a greater role. In this age where there has been a move towards greater participation in America's public life from its citizens, Fairfield’s book—written in an accessible, jargon-free style and addressed to general readers—is especially topical.
