{"product_id":"civil-society-in-the-age-of-monitory-democracy-9781782381495","title":"Civil Society in the Age of Monitory Democracy","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tSince the emergence of the dissident “parallel polis” in Eastern Europe, civil society has become a “new superpower,” influencing democratic transformations, human rights, and international co-operation; co-designing economic trends, security and defense; reshaping the information society; and generating new ideas on the environment, health, and the “good life.” This volume seeks to compare and reassess the role of civil society in the rich West, the poorer South, and the quickly expanding East in the context of the twenty-first century’s challenges. It presents a novel perspective on civic movements testing John Keane’s notion of “monitory democracy”: an emerging order of public scrutiny and monitoring of power.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t“\u003cem\u003eThis is an ambitious effort to capture and contextualize highly diverse broad-ranging trends of contemporary and emerging civil society worldwide and to open a debate on how to theorize these trends. It provides a set of conceptual and theoretical inroads as well as a variety of empirical cases on state–civil society relations and is a welcomed contribution to the field of civil society studies and democratization studies\u003c\/em\u003e.”  \u003cstrong\u003e·  Jens Stilhoff Sörensen, \u003c\/strong\u003eSwedish Institute of International Affairs, Stockholm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“[A]collection of original and sophisticated chapters. The combination of theoretical and empirical chapters – addressing and debating political activism (understood here through the concept of ‘civil society’) and the state and nature of contemporary democracy in various different contexts – is convincing and makes the collection an attractive and valuable contribution to our understanding of contemporary political dynamics\u003c\/em\u003e.”  \u003cstrong\u003e·  \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSabine Selchow\u003c\/strong\u003e, London School of Economics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eLars Trägårdh and Nina Witoszek\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Dawn of Monitory Democracy\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eJohn Keane\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/strong\u003e Civil Society in the Age of Crisis\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eJohn Clark\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/strong\u003e Digital Deprivation: New Media, Civil Society and Sustainability\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003ePaddy Coulter and Cathy Baldwin\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/strong\u003e “Monitory” versus “Managed” Democracy: Does Civil Society Matter in Contemporary Russia?\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eKathryn Stoner-Weiss\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/strong\u003e Monitory Democracy and Ecological Civilization in the People’s Republic of China\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eJames Miller\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/strong\u003e Tenuous Spaces: Civil Society in Burma\/Myanmar\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eDavid Steinberg\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 7. \u003c\/strong\u003eKenya’s Green Belt Movement: Contributions, Conflict, Contradictions, and Complications in a Prominent ENGO\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eBron Taylor\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 8. \u003c\/strong\u003eA New Direction in Transnational Civil Society: The Politics of Muslim NGO Coalitions\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eZeynep Atalay\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 9.\u003c\/strong\u003e Anti-Totalitarian Feminism? Civic Resistance in Iran\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eNina Witoszek and Haideh Daragahi\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 10.\u003c\/strong\u003e Associative Democracy in the Swedish Welfare State\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eLars Trägårdh\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 11. \u003c\/strong\u003eState Capture of Civil Society: Effects of Patronage in the Norwegian Aid Industry\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eAsle Toje\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 12.\u003c\/strong\u003e Civil Society as a Driver of Governance Innovation: A Montesquieu Perspective\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eAtle Midttun\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 13.\u003c\/strong\u003e Afterword: An Ounce of Action is Worth a Ton of Theory\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eBill McKibben prefaced by Nina Witoszek and Lars Trägårdh\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tBibliography\u003cbr\u003e \tIndex\u003cbr\u003e \t \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042211791191,"sku":"9781782381495","price":26.55,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/civil-society-in-the-age-of-monitory-democracy-9781782381495","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}