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oapen-20.500.12657-635522023-06-21T04:22:47Z Civil Society Responses to Changing Civic Spaces Biekart, Kees Kontinen, Tiina Millstein, Marianne Civil Society Development Changing Civic Spaces Civic Spaces International development bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTF Development studies This open access book contributes to thriving debates in academic as well as professional circles about the role of civil society in shrinking civic spaces, rising authoritarianism and right-wing populism, conflicts, fragile states, and most lately, the global COVID-19 pandemic. This is one of the first books to address the implications of changing civic spaces for civil society organizations worldwide. It offers a unique overview of how social movements and civil society groups in very different settings are responding to state-imposed restrictions of basic civic freedoms. The authors are all experts in the field, and their analyses are based on original and onsite research. This unique book also contributes to a better understanding of the conceptualizations and practices of civil society. It is of keen interest to academic scholars, students, civil society practitioners, and policy makers in the field of international development research and civil society action. 2023-06-20T10:23:41Z 2023-06-20T10:23:41Z 2023 book ONIX_20230620_9783031233050_11 9783031233050 9783031233043 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/63552 eng EADI Global Development Series application/pdf n/a 978-3-031-23305-0.pdf https://link.springer.com/978-3-031-23305-0 Springer Nature Palgrave Macmillan 10.1007/978-3-031-23305-0 10.1007/978-3-031-23305-0 6c6992af-b843-4f46-859c-f6e9998e40d5 e7ac00fe-d15d-4d23-bb09-9eead4ef0e17 26493446-c6fb-4bd7-8644-657e676c91bc d747107e-4b6a-4436-be18-de4ec943a49f 9783031233050 9783031233043 Palgrave Macmillan 293 Cham [...] [...] [...] open access
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This open access book contributes to thriving debates in academic as well as professional circles about the role of civil society in shrinking civic spaces, rising authoritarianism and right-wing populism, conflicts, fragile states, and most lately, the global COVID-19 pandemic. This is one of the first books to address the implications of changing civic spaces for civil society organizations worldwide. It offers a unique overview of how social movements and civil society groups in very different settings are responding to state-imposed restrictions of basic civic freedoms. The authors are all experts in the field, and their analyses are based on original and onsite research. This unique book also contributes to a better understanding of the conceptualizations and practices of civil society. It is of keen interest to academic scholars, students, civil society practitioners, and policy makers in the field of international development research and civil society action.
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