Local civil society : place, time and boundaries / Robin Mann, [and four others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mann, Robin, author.

Series:

Civil society and social change

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civil society.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 151 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Other Title:

Local Civil Society

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Policy Press, [2021]

Summary:

"Drawing on place-based field investigations and new empirical analysis, this original book investigates civil society at local level. The concept of civil society is contested and multifaceted, and this text offers assessment and clarification of debates concerning the intertwining of civil society, the state and local community relations. Analysing two Welsh villages, the authors examine the importance of identity, connection with place and the impact of social and spatial boundaries on the everyday production of civil society. Bringing into focus questions of biography and temporality, the book provides an innovative account of continuities and changes within local civil society during social and economic transformation."-- Publisher description.

Contents:

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

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

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

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

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.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Includes bibliographical references and index.