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Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2021

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ISBN 9783030711467

Knowledge and Space Ser. ; v.17

Print version: Gluckler, Johannes Knowledge and Civil Society Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2021 ISBN 9783030711467

The Need for Countervailing Moral Forces -- The Tocqueville-Kahan Thesis -- Bockenforde and Habermas -- Conservative and Liberal Readings of the "Dictum" -- Arresting the Slide to Incivility: Recovering the Politics of the Mean -- References -- Chapter 3: Civil Society as an Agent of Change -- The Domain of Civil Society -- The Unique Contribution -- The Trust Issue -- The Iconic Turn -- References -- Chapter 4: Undone Science and Smart Cities: Civil Society Perspectives on Risk and Emerging Technologies -- Background Concepts -- Grassroots Anti-Smart-Meter Mobilizations -- Privacy Organizations -- EMF Risk Organizations -- Conclusions -- References -- Part II: Analyzing Civil Society Organizations ---

Chapter 5: Specialists for Crumble Cakes? The German LandFrauen Organizations in Social Innovation, and as Educational, Social, and Political Institutions -- Social Innovation as a Research Perspective -- New Solutions for Society, Unfolding in Practices -- Social Innovation as Embedded and Contextualized Phenomenon.

The Need for Countervailing Moral Forces -- The Tocqueville-Kahan Thesis -- Bockenforde and Habermas -- Conservative and Liberal Readings of the "Dictum" -- Arresting the Slide to Incivility: Recovering the Politics of the Mean -- References -- Chapter 3: Civil Society as an Agent of Change -- The Domain of Civil Society -- The Unique Contribution -- The Trust Issue -- The Iconic Turn -- References -- Chapter 4: Undone Science and Smart Cities: Civil Society Perspectives on Risk and Emerging Technologies -- Background Concepts -- Grassroots Anti-Smart-Meter Mobilizations -- Privacy Organizations -- EMF Risk Organizations -- Conclusions -- References -- Part II: Analyzing Civil Society Organizations ---

Knowledge and Civil Society -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Contributors -- Chapter 1: The Place of Civil Society in the Creation of Knowledge -- Knowledge and Civil Society -- Looking for Civil Society in Unexpected Places -- The Book’s Structure -- Conclusion -- References -- Part I: (Re-)Thinking Civil Society -- Chapter 2: The Dialectic of Civil and Uncivil Society-Fragility, Fault Lines, and Countervailing Forces -- Fragility: The Civil and Uncivil Society -- The Inherent Fragility of the Civil Society -- The Liberal Account -- Alexis de Tocqueville -- The post-1989 revival -- Democratic Despotism -- Individualism and untamed markets -- Inequality and tyranny -- Summary: Associative and Dissociative Effects in the Civil Society -- The structural and normative dimension of the civil society ---

Agenda Setting and Alternative Interpretations of the Constitution -- Formation of a Policy Proposal and Internal Split of the Movement -- Discussion -- Prologue -- References -- Chapter 12: Epistemic Activism in the United States: Examining Meetings Across the Silos of Civil Society -- The Challenge of Conceptualizing Civil Society’s Radical Multiplicity -- Bringing Civil Society into Epistemic and Relational Focus -- From Participation to Epistemics -- Knowledge Practices Within Social Theory -- Meetings as Site and Lens -- Case 1: Demonstrating Epistemic Unity in a U.S. Reform Coalition -- CLI: A Civic Reform Coalition -- The Meeting -- What the Meeting Made -- Case 2: Place-Based Movements and the Epistemic Politics of Listening -- Meetings to Mobilize Listening -- Listening Leads and Mobilizes New Agendas -- Conclusion -- References ---

Chapter 6: Schools of Democracy? Giving Circles and the Civic and Political Participation of Collaborative Philanthropists -- Voluntary Associations, the Changing Environment and Giving Circles -- Methodology -- Surveys -- Interviews -- Findings -- Giving -- Volunteering.

Preservation, dissemination, and recombination of "traditional" knowledge -- Learning and exchange among the diverse base of members and reaching different societal groups as a source for societal change -- Exchange and diffusion of ideas across regions and throughout the associational structure -- Advocacy work, Interest Representation, and Setting Public and Political Agenda -- Mobilization and Empowerment for Politics, Associational Work, and Entrepreneurial Activities -- Discussion: LandFrauen as a Case Example for the Promotion of Social Change Through Civil Society-Practices and Prerequisites -- Practices-The LandFrauen’s Role in Social Innovation -- Prerequisites-What Facilitates LandFrauen Practices Towards Social Innovation? -- Conclusion -- References ---

Bottom-Up Expertise: Experts Designated by the Local in Kenya -- Rhetorics of Local Knowledge and the Claim to Authenticity -- Aspirations towards Local Knowledge at the Aga Khan Foundation -- Authenticity and Indigenous Knowledge: Funding Choices at the Christensen Fund -- Transcending the Categories: Blurring the Lines between Global Authority and Local Authenticity -- Hassan Shano at Conferences: Crossing the Lines -- TCF and MSDSP Staff: Local or Expert? -- Holding Typologies of Knowledge in Tension: AKF’s View of Climate-Change Adaptation and TCF’s Involvement in Programming -- Conclusion -- References -- Part IV: Doing Civil Society -- Chapter 11: Democracy Movement and Alternative Knowledge in Hong Kong -- Introduction: Trial and Alternative Knowledge -- Production and Dissemination of Knowledge in Social Movement ---

Participation in Efforts to Address Problems in the Community -- Involvement in Efforts to Change Government Policy -- Civic and Political Activities -- Discussion and Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 7: Time Banks as Transient Civic Organizations? Exploring the Dynamics of Decline -- Relational Thinking and Social Networks -- A Network Perspective on Time Banks -- An Urban Time Bank in Southern Germany -- A Longitudinal Network Analysis -- Evolution and Demise of the TBSG Network -- Conclusion -- References -- Part III: Spaces, Networks and Fields -- Chapter 8: Civil Society as Networks of Issues and Associations: The Case of Food -- Civil Society: Aggregative Versus Relational Perspectives -- Exploring Civil Society in British and South African Cities ---

Agenda Setting and Alternative Interpretations of the Constitution -- Formation of a Policy Proposal and Internal Split of the Movement -- Discussion -- Prologue -- References -- Chapter 12: Epistemic Activism in the United States: Examining Meetings Across the Silos of Civil Society -- The Challenge of Conceptualizing Civil Society’s Radical Multiplicity -- Bringing Civil Society into Epistemic and Relational Focus -- From Participation to Epistemics -- Knowledge Practices Within Social Theory -- Meetings as Site and Lens -- Case 1: Demonstrating Epistemic Unity in a U.S. Reform Coalition -- CLI: A Civic Reform Coalition -- The Meeting -- What the Meeting Made -- Case 2: Place-Based Movements and the Epistemic Politics of Listening -- Meetings to Mobilize Listening -- Listening Leads and Mobilizes New Agendas -- Conclusion -- References ---

Chapter 13: Seeding a New World: Lessons from the FeesMustFall Movement for the Advancement of Social Justice -- Social Mobilization -- Violence as Strategy -- Framing Social Justice Outcomes.

Chapter 6: Schools of Democracy? Giving Circles and the Civic and Political Participation of Collaborative Philanthropists -- Voluntary Associations, the Changing Environment and Giving Circles -- Methodology -- Surveys -- Interviews -- Findings -- Giving -- Volunteering.

Introduction -- Creating Authority out of Expert Knowledge -- Expert Expats in Bishkek -- Creating Local Experts: Language, Education, and Training Trips in Kyrgyzstan.

Preservation, dissemination, and recombination of "traditional" knowledge -- Learning and exchange among the diverse base of members and reaching different societal groups as a source for societal change -- Exchange and diffusion of ideas across regions and throughout the associational structure -- Advocacy work, Interest Representation, and Setting Public and Political Agenda -- Mobilization and Empowerment for Politics, Associational Work, and Entrepreneurial Activities -- Discussion: LandFrauen as a Case Example for the Promotion of Social Change Through Civil Society-Practices and Prerequisites -- Practices-The LandFrauen’s Role in Social Innovation -- Prerequisites-What Facilitates LandFrauen Practices Towards Social Innovation? -- Conclusion -- References ---

The Structure of Issue Networks: Insights into the Discursive Space Produced by Civil Society -- The Structure of Alliance Networks: Insights into the Associational Space Produced by Civil Society -- Conclusions -- Appendix -- References -- Chapter 9: The Geography of Giving in the Philanthropic Field -- The Philanthropic Field -- Case Study: Data and Methods -- Study Region -- Identification of Field Actors -- Measure of Field Activity: Donations -- Field Composition: Who are the Actors? -- Field Activity: What are the Practices of Giving? -- Field connectivity: How Does Giving Create a Network of Cooperation? -- Field Geography: How Does Geography Shape Philanthropy? -- Conclusion: Strategizing the Philanthropic Field? -- References -- Chapter 10: Global Authenticity, Local Authority: Epistemic Power, Discursive Geographies, and the Creation of Civil Society Knowledge Networks ---

Bottom-Up Expertise: Experts Designated by the Local in Kenya -- Rhetorics of Local Knowledge and the Claim to Authenticity -- Aspirations towards Local Knowledge at the Aga Khan Foundation -- Authenticity and Indigenous Knowledge: Funding Choices at the Christensen Fund -- Transcending the Categories: Blurring the Lines between Global Authority and Local Authenticity -- Hassan Shano at Conferences: Crossing the Lines -- TCF and MSDSP Staff: Local or Expert? -- Holding Typologies of Knowledge in Tension: AKF’s View of Climate-Change Adaptation and TCF’s Involvement in Programming -- Conclusion -- References -- Part IV: Doing Civil Society -- Chapter 11: Democracy Movement and Alternative Knowledge in Hong Kong -- Introduction: Trial and Alternative Knowledge -- Production and Dissemination of Knowledge in Social Movement ---

Mass Organization and Structural Considerations -- Maintaining the Ethics of the Movement -- Lessons for Advancing Social Justice -- References -- Chapter 14: Civility, Education, and the Embodied Mind-Three Approaches -- The Embodied Mind: A Confluence of Traditions -- The Embodied Mind (I): Inner Cultivation. Integrating Hot and Cold Cognition -- The Embodied Mind (II): Self-Regulation in Accord with Wisdom: Sophrosyne -- Reason Does Not Guarantee Right Conduct -- The Embodied Mind (III): Mindfulness -- Summary: Educating the Heart-Mind -- Educating the Heart-Mind Mind for Embodied Civility-A Basis for a New Global Dialogue? -- References -- The Klaus Tschira Foundation -- Index.

Participation in Efforts to Address Problems in the Community -- Involvement in Efforts to Change Government Policy -- Civic and Political Activities -- Discussion and Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 7: Time Banks as Transient Civic Organizations? Exploring the Dynamics of Decline -- Relational Thinking and Social Networks -- A Network Perspective on Time Banks -- An Urban Time Bank in Southern Germany -- A Longitudinal Network Analysis -- Evolution and Demise of the TBSG Network -- Conclusion -- References -- Part III: Spaces, Networks and Fields -- Chapter 8: Civil Society as Networks of Issues and Associations: The Case of Food -- Civil Society: Aggregative Versus Relational Perspectives -- Exploring Civil Society in British and South African Cities ---

The LandFrauen Organizations in German Civil Society and as Object of Research -- Method and Research Questions: Analysis of the LandFrauen’s Role in Social Change and Innovation -- Findings: LandFrauen Organizations and Practices in Societal Change and Social Innovation -- Diversity, Geography, and Local Contextualization of the LandFrauen Organizations and Activities -- Community-Building, Togetherness, and Local Social Embeddedness as a Ground for Further Activities -- Local Engagement, and Functions as Initiators, Catalysts, or Multipliers in Rural Areas -- LandFrauen as Institutional Frame and Social Spaces for Learning, Education, and Knowledge Diffusion in Rural Areas -- Central and de-central coordinated education activities -- Addressing contemporary societal challenges ---

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