Knowledge and Civil Society / edited by Johannes Glückler, Heinz-Dieter Meyer, Laura Suarsana.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Glückler, Johannes.

Contributor:

Meyer, Heinz-Dieter.

Suarsana, Laura.

Series:

Knowledge and Space, 2543-0580 ; 17

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human geography.

Cultural geography.

Political science.

Social and Cultural Geography.

Human Geography.

Political Science.

Local Subjects:

Social and Cultural Geography.

Human Geography.

Political Science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (317 pages)

Edition:

1st ed. 2022.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2022.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This open access book focuses on the role of civil society in the creation, dissemination, and interpretation of knowledge in geographical contexts. It offers original, interdisciplinary and counterintuitive perspectives on civil society. The book includes reflections on civil and uncivil society, the role of civil society as a change agent, and on civil society perspectives of undone science. Conceptual approaches go beyond the tripartite division of public, private and civic sectors to propose new frameworks of civic networks and philanthropic fields, which take an inclusive view of the connectivity of civic agency across sectors. This includes relational analyses of epistemic power in civic knowledge networks as well as of regional giving and philanthropy. The original empirical case studies examine traditional forms of civic engagement, such as the German landwomen’s associations, as well as novel types of organizations, such as giving circles and time banks in their geographical context. The book also offers insider reflections on doing civil society, such as the cases of the Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong, epistemic activism in the United States, and the #FeesMustFall movement in South Africa.

Contents:

Chapter 1. The Place of Civil Society in the Making of Knowledge

Part I: (Re-)Thinking Civil Society

Chapter 2. The Dialectic of Civil and Uncivil Society—Fragility, Fault Lines, and Countervailing Forces.-Chapter 3. Civil Society as an Agent of Change

Chapter 4. Undone Science and Smart Cities: Civil Society Perspectives on Risk and Emerging Technologies

Part II: Analyzing Civil Society Organizations

Chapter 5. Specialists for Crumble Cakes? The German LandFrauen Organizations in Social Innovation and as Educational, Social, and Political Institutions

Chapter 6. Schools of Democracy? Giving Circles and the Civic and Political Participation of Collaborative Philanthropists

Chapter 7. Time Banks as Transient Civic Organizations? Exploring the Dynamics of Decline

Part III: Spaces, Networks and Fields

Chapter 8. Civil Society as Networks of Issues and Associations: The Case of Food

Chapter 9. The Geography of Giving in the Philanthropic Field

Chapter 10. Global Authenticity, Local Authority: Epistemic Power, Discursive Geographies, and the Creation of Civil Society Knowledge Networks

Part IV: Doing Civil Society

Chapter 11. Democracy Movement and Alternative Knowledge in Hong Kong

Chapter 12. Epistemic Activism in the United States: Examining Meetings Across the Silos of Civil Society

Chapter 13. Seeding a New World: Lessons From the #FeesMustFall Movement for the Advancement of Social Justice

Chapter 14. Civility, Education, and the Embodied Mind—Three Approaches to a New Sentimental Education.

ISBN:

9783030711474

3030711471

OCLC:

1289372772