The handbook of civil society in Africa / Ebenezer Obadare, editor.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Obadare, Ebenezer, editor.
• Rosengarten Family Fund.

Series:

• Nonprofit and civil society studies 1568-2579
• Nonprofit and civil society studies, 1568-2579

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Civil society--Africa.
• Civil society.
• Africa.
• Non-governmental organizations--Africa.
• Non-governmental organizations.
• Political participation--Africa.
• Political participation.

Genre:

• Aufsatzsammlung.

Physical Description:

xviii, 490 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Springer, [2014]

Summary:

This volume brings together the most up to date analyses of civil society in Africa from the best scholars and researchers working on the subject. Being the first of its kind, it casts a panoramic look at the African continent, drawing out persisting, if often under-communicated, variations in regional discourses. In a majority of notionally global studies, Africa has received marginal attention, a marginality often highlighted by the usual token chapter. Filling a critical hiatus, the Handbook of Civil Society in Africa takes Africa, African developments, and African perspectives very seriously and worthy of academic interrogation in their own right. It offers a critical, clear-sighted perspective on civil society in Africa, and positions African discourses within the framework of important regional and global debates. It promises to be an invaluable reference work for researchers and practitioners working in the fields of civil society, nonprofit studies, development studies, volunteerism, civic service, and African studies.

Contents:

• Introduction: Turning the table on Gellner : alternative discourses of civil society in Africa / Ebenezer Obadare
• Escape from tyranny : civil society and democratic struggles in Africa / Darren Kew and Modupe Oshikoya
• Civil society and religion / Shobana Shankar
• Theorizing media as/and civil society in Africa / Wendy Willems
• "Good" state, "bad" state : loss and longing in postcolonial Zimbabwe / Julia Gallagher
• NGO accountability in Africa / Ronelle Burger and Dineo Seabe
• Civil society in the Maghreb : lessons from the Arab Spring / James Sater
• Civil society organizations and the state in East Africa : from the colonial to the modern era / Priscilla Wamucii
• Civil society and the politics of belonging in South Africa / Daniel Hammett
• Building civil society in West Africa : notes from the field / Titilope Mamattah
• Imagining civil society in Zimbabwe and "most of the world" / Kirk Helliker
• Viral messaging, satire, and spaces of resistance in Nigeria / Carole Enahoro
• Civil society and conflict in West Africa / Niklas Hultin
• Neoliberalism and the forms of civil society in Kenya and South Africa / Jacob Mwathi Mati
• Africa rising? : Afro-optimism and uncivil society in an era of academic volatility / Patrick Bond
• Civil society and neoliberalism / Usman A. Tar
• Popular organizations in South Africa : from civics to service delivery protests / Elke Zuern
• "If good food is cooked in one country, we will all eat from it" : women and civil society in Africa / Hannah Britton and Taylor Price
• NGOs, civil society, and development / Badru Bukenya and Sam Hickey
• Civil society and sexual struggles in Africa / Ashley Currier and Joëlle M. Cruz
• Civil society's response to the HIV/AIDS crisis in Africa / Richard G. Wamui
• Orature as a site for civil contestation : film and the decolonization of space and place in Tsisti Dangarembga's Kare Kare Zvako (Mother's Day) 2005 / Bunmi Oyinsan
• Civil society and aid in Africa : a case of mistaken identity? / Alan Fowler
• Volunteering, civil service and civil society in Africa / Helen Perold and Lauren Graham
• Philanthropic foundations and civil society in Sub-Saharan Africa / Christiana Lariba Atibil
• Volunteering, civic agency, and citizenship in Africa / Ebenezer Obadare.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

• 1461482615
• 9781461482611

OCLC:

847126011

Publisher Number:

99963196227

Online:

The Rosengarten Family Fund Home Page