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1 online resource (162 pages) |
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Civil Society and Social Change |
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Civil Society and Social Change.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-142) and index. |
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Print version record. |
| 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 |
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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 |
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Local civil society in comparative perspective: homogeneous and heterogeneous communities -- Continuities and discontinuities in selected recent local studies -- Conclusion -- 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 -- Conclusion -- 4 Civil society through the narratives of place and time -- Narrating civil society -- Symbolic universes of everyday life |
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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 -- Conclusion -- 5 Civil society and local associational life -- The question of associations -- Associations in Rhos -- Bowling in Rhos |
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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 -- Conclusion -- 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 |
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Susan's case: the issue of new development in Overton. |
| Summary |
Drawing on place-based field investigations and new empirical analysis, this original book investigates civil society at local level. |
| Subject |
Civil society -- Wales.
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Société civile -- Pays de Galles.
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Civil rights & citizenship.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Civics & Citizenship.
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Civil society
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Wales
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| Added Author |
Dallimore, David, author.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Mann, Robin. Local Civil Society. Bristol : Policy Press, ©2021 9781447356486 |
| ISBN |
9781447356516 (electronic bk.) |
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1447356519 (electronic bk.) |
| Standard No. |
AU@ 000070280010 |
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AU@ 000070532607 |
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