Nordic Civil Society at a Cross-Roads - 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 Nordic Civil Society at a Cross-Roads write by Filip Wijkström. This book was released on 2011. Nordic Civil Society at a Cross-Roads available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Nordic Civil Society at a Cross-roads
Nordic Civil Society at a Cross-roads - 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 Nordic Civil Society at a Cross-roads write by Filip Wijkström. This book was released on 2011. Nordic Civil Society at a Cross-roads available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Scandinavian societies have been noted for the combination of political stability and extensive social progress. During the 20th century, influential popular movements constituted a crucial factor in this equation. The benevolent welfare states of the North have been backed by active civil societies of which membership organizations working in close proximity with the welfare state administrations constituted the hallmark. With this civil society model as an important backdrop, the contributions of the volume track and analyze a number of changes identified both at the very center and at the margins of Scandinavian civil societies and their membership organizations which are traditionally embedded in a so-called popular movement marinade. Professionalization, transnationalization and marketization are major trends that increasingly put the traditional Scandinavian civil society approach of doing things into question. The contributions of the volume focus on drivers, processes and outcomes of change affecting the traditionally membership based civil societies in Scandinavia. Amongst the authors of the volume are Lars Tragardh, Marta Reuter, Apostolis Papakostas, and Victor Pestoff.
Learning to live in a new Country – everyday social integration: Civil society and integration – Nordic rural perspective
Learning to live in a new Country – everyday social integration: Civil society and integration – Nordic rural perspective - 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 Learning to live in a new Country – everyday social integration: Civil society and integration – Nordic rural perspective write by Karlsdóttir, Anna. This book was released on 2020-06-16. Learning to live in a new Country – everyday social integration: Civil society and integration – Nordic rural perspective available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Online publication: https://pub.norden.org/nord2020-036/ Abstract [en] In this paper we focus on three of the main ways civil society can play a role in the integration of refugees and immigrants. The leading question we seek to answer is as follows. Are the ways in which civil society engages different in rural areas and in smaller communities around the Nordic Region, as compared with urban areas and large cities? We use evidence from interviews and transcripts with migration workers as our starting point. We then focus on the role of a) religious communities and aid organisations, b) sport organisations and clubs, c) pop-up activism and mentorship programmes from available literature and from Nordic seminars and dialogue. We will also focus on partnerships and forms of coordination between civil society organisations, municipalities and regions.
The Nordic Civil Sphere
The Nordic Civil Sphere - 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 Nordic Civil Sphere write by Jeffrey C. Alexander. This book was released on 2020-01-07. The Nordic Civil Sphere available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The civil sphere is a distinctively democratic field in modern societies, one that sustains universalizing cultural aspirations and organizational structures and that has tense and uncertain boundaries with other spheres of social life, like the economy, religion, family, and state. Unlike the latter, which are more particularistic and hierarchical in character, the civil sphere defines itself in terms of solidarity – the feeling of being connected with every other person in the collectivity. The utopian ideals of democratic solidarity shape every modern society, even if they are often compromised by the messy realities of social life. This volume uses the theory of the civil sphere to shed new light on Nordic societies, while at the same time drawing on the distinctive experiences of the Nordic nations to reflect on and advance the theory of the civil sphere. Nordic societies have long been admired for creating a distinctive form of social democracy, but this admirable achievement has not been well conceptualized theoretically. Most attempts to explain Nordic social democracy focus on material and organizational factors. This volume, by contrast, emphasizes the cultural foundations and characteristics of social democracy, demonstrating how civil sensibilities are necessary for the creation of an egalitarian and democratic state. Nordic civil spheres, however, are not only pro-civil but also white in color, European in ethnicity, secular in character and gender-equal in a subtly restrictive manner. Such primordialization of state civility is vividly on display in the sometime tense relationships that develop among natives and “foreigners” in Nordic countries, relationships that expose the primordial undersides of the social democratic codes and civil values that constitute the Nordic civil sphere. A major contribution to the theory of the civil sphere and to our understanding of the cultural and normative underpinnings of social and political life, this volume will be of particular interest to students and scholars of sociology and politics.
Scandinavian Civil Society and Social Transformations
Scandinavian Civil Society and Social Transformations - 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 Scandinavian Civil Society and Social Transformations write by Bernard Enjolras. This book was released on 2018-04-11. Scandinavian Civil Society and Social Transformations available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book aims at presenting a conceptual apparatus and empirical analysis of the ways Nordic civil society is affected by social transformations by focusing on the Norwegian case. The Norwegian empirical focus allows identifying processes and factors of change that are relevant outside this context and enable us to understand, on a more general basis, the relationship between social transformations and transformations affecting the voluntary sector. This book will make an original contribution to the field of comparative civil society studies both by increasing the available knowledge on the Nordic civil society model and by analyzing the societal transformations affecting civil society over time.
