Cultures of Politics/Politics of Cultures: Re-visioning Latin American...

Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs;  October 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......appropriated by social movements-in which cultural...19). Finally, civil society, social movements...the process, social movements promote a "project...interaction between civil society and the state...character of civil society itself. ...

Is a New Worldwide Web Possible? An Explorative Comparison of the Use of...

African Studies Review;  April 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......South African social movements is explored...South African social movements: the Treatment...range of new social movements has emerged in...these entities as social movements (and not, for instance, civil society organizations...definition of social ...

Powerful, united civil society needed to speak for the poor and...

Cape Times (South Africa);  December 27, 2007 ;     700+ words ......and powerful civil society which made anything...except for social movements, the Congress...regrettable decline in civil society. The problem...the revival of civil society is social movements and trade unions...trade unions, social ...

Deploying weapons of the weak in civil society: political culture in Hong...

Social Justice;  June 22, 2006 ;     700+ words ......been included in civil society, it is important...the context of civil society. Because of the...understanding of how civil society, at least that...the notion of civil society. We describe civil society as: (1) a network...associational sphere, ...

Korean Society: Civil Society, Democracy and the State. (Book...

Pacific Affairs;  March 22, 2003 ;     700+ words ......book focuses on civil society, a timely topic...of grassroots social movements/associations...specific strands of civil society, including the...show how these social movements/organizations...knowledge about civil society that the first...interplay ...

People's Rights: Social Movements and the State in the Third...

The Australian Journal of Politics and History;  September 1, 2001 ;     427 words ...People's Rights: Social Movements and the State in the Third World...divided into three sections, being Civil Society, State and Nation , People's...premise of the book is that civil society and social movements -- trade unions, ecology, human...of third world politics and ...

Social Movements and Political Reform in Hong Kong

Journal of Third World Studies;  October 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......discussing the three social movements, the author reviewed...evolution of civil society and the history...seeks to expand civil society and redefine...argues that these social movements were successful...direct elections. Civil society has grown ...

Democratising Indonesia: The Challenges of Civil Society in the Era of...

Contemporary Southeast Asia;  December 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......Indonesia's civil society in the post...focuses on three social movements that shaped civil society both in the...chapters on these social movements form the core...assessment of civil society in Indonesia...within Indonesian civil society ...

social movements

Dictionary of the Social Sciences;      700+ words ...social movements Collective attempts to bring about...organized. Concentrated attention to social movements is relatively recent in the social...convergence of forces for social change. Social movements can be narrow in scope, targeting...

Time to stop romanticising social movements.(News)

Cape Times (South Africa);  January 26, 2007 ;     700+ words ......divisions opening up within South African social movements. The dramatic and rancorous allegations...symptomatic of larger problems afflicting social movements. Contrary to the impression some social movements try to give, nothing is further from...

The State of Civil Society in Japan.(Book Review)

Pacific Affairs;  June 22, 2004 ;     700+ words ......conceptual boundary of civil society. The book is...mapping of the term civil society (Schwartz); a...management of civil society from Meiji to...capitalism and civil society in modern Japanese...framework for civil society (Robert Pekkanen...the state and ...

Civil society: a paradigm or a new slogan?

The Ecumenical Review;  January 1, 1994 ;     700+ words ......the World Bank. Civil society is an appealing...for a return to civil society is a demand for...studies To show why civil society is not a univocal...developments of civil society: in the United...as a model for civil society. Citizenship...messianic task. ...

Channeling: identity-based social movements and public law.

University of Pennsylvania Law Review;  November 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......and political scientists who have studied social movements. Social movements generated many important statutes we now...movements and their internal dynamics. (1) Social movements have been one engine driving constitutional...

INTERNATIONAL LAW AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS: TOWARDS TRANSFORMATION

American Society of International Law. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting;  January 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ...ANALYZING SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND INTERNATIONAL LAW' by Julie...considers the relationship between social movements and international law, with specific...rights law: To what extent do social movements spur international law? To what...

Transnational social movements and sovereignties in transition: charting...

Anthropologica;  January 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ...Keywords: Social movements, transnationalism, undocumented...Withering Away" and the Study of Social Movements [W]hat is the role of the state...in a strategic dialogue with social movements, ceding to them the autonomy...