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Civil Society and Creole Society: Caribbean Socio-cultural Division and Its Development Implications
Though the instrumental nature of civil society in develo** countries cannot be overemphasised, ideologically, civil society serves as the...
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The Environment in the Triangle Between Politics, Business, and Civil Society
Environmental debates involve three main actors, politics, business, and civil society. Politics and business are in symbiosis with one another as...
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Social Media as Mechanism for Accountability: Cases of China’s Environmental Civil Society
This chapter examines how environmental civil society organizations in China construct their accountabilities through social media use. Through case...
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Aspects of Civil Engagement, Media, and Environmental Issues in Japan
This chapter focuses on the reactions of society and government institutions in Japan regarding contemporary environmental problems. It thematizes...
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Civil Inattention
Für Goffmans Analysen der Verletzlichkeit des Selbst stellt die Analyse des Phänomens der civil inattention einen zentralen Bezugspunkt dar. Als...
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From warrior geek to prototype warrior: entrepreneurialism, future war, and the emergence of twenty-first century civil-military relations
Armed forces are now in a race to exploit the technologies associated with Artificial Intelligence. Viewed as force multipliers, these technologies...
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IAMCR and the World Summit on the Information Society
This chapter contextualizes the contributions by IAMCR members to the United Nations World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) efforts to renew...
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Trauma Theory, the Lebanese Civil War, and Lebanese Fiction
This lead-in chapter provides overviews of relevant literature that guide the close reading of Rabee Jaber’s novels in the following chapters. It...
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Moving Beyond the State-Civil Society Dichotomy Through the Case Study of a Community-Based Upgrading Project in Vietnam
Social capital concepts in local governance and housing studies have moved beyond the state-civil society dichotomy, highlighting roles of both state...
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The Role of Civil Society in the Application of International Law for Heritage Protection in Countries in Conflict in the MENA Region
Throughout the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, there have been a myriad of conflicts of very diverse nature, which have had catastrophic...
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Edith Wharton’s The Reef: New York High Society & the House of Atreus
Edith Wharton’s reputation as the grande dame of American letters rests largely on her imaginative prose fiction about Gilded Age New Yorkers, whose...
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The Future of Photography and Collaboration in Education: Co-creating with Civil Intent
In this chapter we argue that a photography education that seeks to provide critical perspectives on the ethics and politics of collaboration and...
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Blogging in Pre-war Syria: Female Voices from Within an Authoritarian Regime and Patriarchal Society
This chapter offers an unprecedented perspective on the Syrian blogosphere as a communication space used by secular and religious feminists. The...
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“Under False Colors”: Nineteenth-Century Masquerading Laws and Black Disabled Transgender Embodiment in Post-Civil War Memphis
This essay will focus on Frances Thompson, a Black disabled, trans woman, and a freed slave living in Memphis, Tennessee, in the decade following the...
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The Spirit of Koudmen: The Genesis of Identity, Community and Cooperation in Saint Lucian Society
This chapter identifies koudmen as a source of cultural identity within Saint Lucia. Koudmen translates to a voluntary community self-help system and...
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How Social Media Mashups Enable and Constrain Online Activism of Civil Society Organizations
Activists of civil society organizations often use social media (SM) to organize and achieve social change by sharing content across different SM...
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Youth, Film, Culture, and Society
In this chapter, Seggi discusses how, since the late nineteenth century, the changing economic, political, legal and cultural milieu in the US has...
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Introduction: Map** Wu Ming’s Transmedia Activism in Neoliberal Society
This chapter shows how the book studies the Wu Ming collective to explore political and cultural forms of intervention that imagine, envision and put...
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KERKVLIET, Benedict J[ohn] Tria
Benedict J[ohn] Tria KERVLIET, one of the foremost American political scientists, is a specialist on the comparative politics of Asia and Southeast...