Overview
Reviews naturalist and modernist approaches to civil society and NGOs
Unpacks different narratives over civil society in order to explain how those narratives influence the actions of social actors
Examines how new patterns of rule and neoliberalism organize civil society
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About this book
This book suggests that our notions of civil society have undergone radical changes—including structural changes in the nature of Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs). Such massive structural changes greatly problematize the older liberal view of a simple split between state and civil society actors which nonetheless remains dominant in much of social and political sciences. The author argues that the naturalist and behaviorist approaches to civil society occlude the fact that citizens increasingly live within a particular and highly contestable way of imagining and constructing civil society. The book shows that changes in how civil society is conceptualized and organized around new practices, might mark radically new conceptions of the state that are ideologically neo-liberal and subtle in the ways they disempower ordinary citizens.
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Kent University, Istanbul, Turkey.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: NGOs, Civil Society and Structural Changes
Authors: Acar Kutay
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71862-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-71861-9Published: 23 June 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-71864-0Published: 24 June 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-71862-6Published: 22 June 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 219
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Development Studies, Public Policy, Foreign Policy, International Relations Theory