Local civil society : place, time and boundaries /

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Drawing on place-based field investigations and new empirical analysis, this original book investigates civil society at local level.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Mann, Robin (Sociologist) (Autor), Dallimore, David (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol : Policy Press, an imprint of Bristol University Press, 2022.
Colección:Civil Society and Social Change.
Temas:
Civil society > Wales.
Société civile > Pays de Galles.
Civil rights & citizenship.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Civics & Citizenship.
Civil society.
Wales.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front Cover
  • Half Title
  • Series
  • Local Civil Society: Place, Time and Boundaries
  • Copyright information
  • Table of contents
  • List of figures
  • Notes on the authors
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Sites, methods and data
  • Organisation of the book
  • 1 Civil society as a field of local action
  • Defining civil society
  • Emergence and development of the concept
  • Late 20th- and early 21st-century reformulations
  • Civil society, public sphere and the national scale
  • Global and transnational civil society
  • Local-global interconnectedness: progressive and regressive local civil society
  • Place, rural-urban distinctions and the nature of community
  • Conclusion
  • 2 Community and local civil society: time, continuity and change
  • Substantive elements of local civil society in the context of social change
  • Time, place and the un/civil nature of community
  • Local civil society and comparing communities across time and place
  • Local civil society in comparative perspective: from neighbourhood to neighbourhoodism
  • Local civil society in comparative perspective: homogeneous and heterogeneous communities
  • Continuities and discontinuities in selected recent local studies
  • Conclusion
  • 3 Uncovering local civil society in two Welsh villages
  • The 'village' as local civil society
  • A tale of two villages
  • Contextual factors
  • History
  • Socio-economic profiles
  • Self-image and perceptions
  • Local civil society structures
  • Local civil society practice
  • Conclusion
  • 4 Civil society through the narratives of place and time
  • Narrating civil society
  • Symbolic universes of everyday life
  • Case 1: Ifor and the case of Nene
  • Rhos through the eyes of Ifor
  • Case 2: Linda and the case of the Overton Oracle
  • Overton from Linda's perspective
  • Nostalgic narratives of the place and the organisation of civil social actions
  • Civil society in the narrative of nostalgia
  • Preserving the past: the case of Rhos
  • Securing continuity for the future: the case of Overton
  • Nostalgic narratives and implications for civil society actions
  • Conclusion
  • 5 Civil society and local associational life
  • The question of associations
  • Associations in Rhos
  • Bowling in Rhos
  • The Community Café
  • Nene community newspaper
  • The Stiwt
  • Overton associations
  • The La Murette and Overton-on-Dee Twinning Association
  • Women's Institute
  • Parish church
  • Community councillor
  • Discussion
  • Conclusion
  • 6 The entwining of civil society, economy and state at local levels
  • Stratification in the context of civil society participation
  • Civil society across the life cycle
  • Gendered economic relations
  • Class and place
  • Biographies of civil society in action
  • William's case: the mining heritage of Rhos
  • Cai's case: the Rhos Christmas Panto

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