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Civil society and contested elections in electoral autocracies: Dissent and caution in Uganda’s 2016 elections 选举独裁中的民间社会和有争议的选举：乌干达2016年选举中的异议和谨慎

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Journal of Civil Society Pub Date : 2022-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/17448689.2022.2125415

Anders Sjögren

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引用次数: 4

Social Participation in Context. Participatory Culture in Spain and Germany 情境中的社会参与。西班牙和德国的参与式文化

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Journal of Civil Society Pub Date : 2022-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/17448689.2022.2125413

Teresa Amezcua, Eva Sotomayor

{"title":"Social Participation in Context. Participatory Culture in Spain and Germany","authors":"Teresa Amezcua, Eva Sotomayor","doi":"10.1080/17448689.2022.2125413","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17448689.2022.2125413","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article aims to examine and describe the ways in which elderly people participate in post-industrial societies. The literature points out the benefits of social participation. However, the influence of context in features of civil society has remained relatively understudied. This article analyses the influence of context on the conceptualization of the phenomenon of social participation and civic engagement. In addition, the findings are linked to the broader academic debate on civil society. This empirical study consists of results from semi-structured interviews and focus groups conducted with experts on social participation and elderly members of different associations. The German and Spanish case studies confirm that socio-demographic variables, cultural frames, political structures and social structure shape the culture of participation. The article argues that each context creates its own participatory culture through the incorporation of four different conceptualisations of participation: (1) participation as a right; (2) participation as an attitude; (3) participation as civic engagement; (4) participation as a slogan. The Spanish discourse tends mostly to conceptualize participation as a right and/or a slogan. The German discourse conceptualizes participation mainly as civic engagement. These conceptual differences give rise to two different participatory culture models.","PeriodicalId":46013,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Civil Society","volume":"18 1","pages":"286 - 306"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43634150","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

Humanitarianism as civic practice? Humanity, politics and humanitarian activism 人道主义作为公民实践?人性、政治和人道主义行动主义

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Journal of Civil Society Pub Date : 2022-04-03 DOI: 10.1080/17448689.2022.2121296

H. Radice

{"title":"Humanitarianism as civic practice? Humanity, politics and humanitarian activism","authors":"H. Radice","doi":"10.1080/17448689.2022.2121296","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17448689.2022.2121296","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article explores the intersection between civic activism and humanitarian action, two sets of practices which, in conflict settings, nvolve protecting life, supporting people’s ability to survive, and upholding dignity. Yet the logics that govern professionalized humanitarianism sometimes limit or work against the kinds of civic activism and political agency that enable resistance to powerful conflict dynamics. This article elaborates a concept of humanitarian activism that recasts the humanitarian encounter as a problem of political estrangement, to be overcome through a recognition of the political agency of humanitarians’ interlocutors. The starting point of humanitarian action in all its guises should be to see the human in the other, but it should also accept that humanity is political in both its construction and realization. The humanity of the other must be honoured, among other things, through the support of the other’s political voice through civic engagements in the fora relevant to those goals of protecting life and dignity. As contemporary conflict fuels itself by dehumanizing and depoliticizing, so must humanitarian activists situate themselves against both these dynamics, materially and discursively, from the level of local activism to global humanitarian funding flows, to open up genuine humanitarian space for change.","PeriodicalId":46013,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Civil Society","volume":"18 1","pages":"142 - 160"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45907748","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 1

Engendering civicness in the Syrian peacemaking process 在叙利亚建立和平进程中营造文明氛围

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Journal of Civil Society Pub Date : 2022-04-03 DOI: 10.1080/17448689.2022.2068625

M. Theros, R. Turkmani

引用次数: 3

Producing democracy in armed violence settings: Elections and citizenship in Eastern DRC 在武装暴力环境中创造民主：刚果民主共和国东部的选举和公民身份

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Journal of Civil Society Pub Date : 2022-04-03 DOI: 10.1080/17448689.2022.2068626

Koen Vlassenroot, Aymar Nyenyezi, E. Mudinga, Godefroid Muzalia

{"title":"Producing democracy in armed violence settings: Elections and citizenship in Eastern DRC","authors":"Koen Vlassenroot, Aymar Nyenyezi, E. Mudinga, Godefroid Muzalia","doi":"10.1080/17448689.2022.2068626","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17448689.2022.2068626","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The article analyses how the 2018 in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) contributed to a further opening up of the democratic space and shared expressions and sentiments of citizenship. Through an ethnography of the electoral process in the South Kivu province, we investigate how claiming rights that come with citizenship and how people’s political identity, shape and are being shaped by electoral processes. We introduce the notion of citoyenneté to capture the dynamic process of civic political mobilization and positioning. In the case of the DRC, the concept of citoyenneté encapsulates the ideas, positions and actions giving meaning to citizenship and refers both to a formal ideology of nation building and political hegemony; and to an ideology of resistance, guiding acts and strategies to claim rights. We look at the substantive aspect of citoyenneté, or the processes of transformation and re-ownership of the content of citizenship during moments of intensified political competition and change. This process, as we argue, confirms that citizenship is above all a social construction, guiding social behaviour that varies according to the demands being formed around the acquisition of new rights, the redefinition of the political community, existing power competitions and social grievances.","PeriodicalId":46013,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Civil Society","volume":"18 1","pages":"165 - 182"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47775108","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 3

Civicness in exile: The solidarities and struggles of South Sudanese refugees in Cairo 流亡中的公民:开罗南苏丹难民的团结与斗争

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Journal of Civil Society Pub Date : 2022-04-03 DOI: 10.1080/17448689.2022.2068628

R. Ibreck, Angelina Seeka

{"title":"Civicness in exile: The solidarities and struggles of South Sudanese refugees in Cairo","authors":"R. Ibreck, Angelina Seeka","doi":"10.1080/17448689.2022.2068628","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17448689.2022.2068628","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT We explore refugee solidarities and struggles under conditions of extreme political exclusion and violence, based on collaborative ethnography with South Sudanese refugees in Cairo. From the perspective of the refugees, the city is hostile and precarious. They are routinely subject to racism, deprivation, and arbitrary applications of law. At the same time, South Sudanese people have historical roots in Cairo and have generated forms of moral and political order there, shaped by fluctuating relations with each other, the city, and their homeland. We argue that these inconspicuous socio-political structures provide community citizenship at the urban margins. Additionally, we show how refugees strive for legitimate authority, social welfare, and rights in exile, within and beyond these local realms. We label these endeavours ‘civicness’ to capture their situated politics. The refugees’ relations and contentions are distinctive in that they are mostly oriented towards customary and humanitarian authorities, rather than the state; they rely on and encourage quotidian solidarities; and they blend notions of custom with references to human rights and constitutional norms. In this harsh context, South Sudanese refugees deploy civicness to promote survival with dignity and to counteract dehumanizing modes of humanitarian governance.","PeriodicalId":46013,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Civil Society","volume":"18 1","pages":"219 - 238"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41906285","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 2

Transborder Citizenship and Activism: Political Engagement and Resistance in the Somali Environment 跨国界公民与行动主义:索马里环境中的政治参与与抵抗

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Journal of Civil Society Pub Date : 2022-04-03 DOI: 10.1080/17448689.2022.2068627

Syed Nisar Majid

{"title":"Transborder Citizenship and Activism: Political Engagement and Resistance in the Somali Environment","authors":"Syed Nisar Majid","doi":"10.1080/17448689.2022.2068627","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17448689.2022.2068627","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article explores Somali transborder/transnational activism through the role of two individual actors, drawing upon their life histories and a selection of initiatives they have been involved in over time. The Somali-populated Horn of Africa provides a highly complex environment for the production of identities, based on its ethno-linguistic heritage, clan affiliations, Islam and their variable state-like affiliations in what is a highly politically fragmented context. These complex and multiple forms of identity incorporate diasporic and non-diasporic actors, all of which complicates notions of citizenship. This article draws upon social and cultural notions of citizenship (rather than legal-bureacratic) to argue that the agency expressed by the two protagonists is usefully understood as a form of evolving transborder citizenship. Furthermore, the article utilizes the concept of ‘social remittances’ to suggest that the quality of behaviour expressed by our transborder citizens is a form of ‘civicness’, reflective of an engagement with and resistance to the volatile and exclusionary politics of conflict affected contexts. Utilizing life histories enables us to explore how individuals and the networks of which they are part, pursue different strategies, to varying effects, over time and in multiple settings.","PeriodicalId":46013,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Civil Society","volume":"18 1","pages":"201 - 218"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45313425","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 1

Palimpsests of civicness: Spontaneity and the Egyptian Uprising/Cairo 2011 公民性重述：自发与埃及起义/开罗2011

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Journal of Civil Society Pub Date : 2022-04-03 DOI: 10.1080/17448689.2022.2125416

H. Ezzat

引用次数: 1

Introduction: Civicness in conflict 简介：冲突中的文明

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Journal of Civil Society Pub Date : 2022-04-03 DOI: 10.1080/17448689.2022.2121295

M. Kaldor, H. Radice

引用次数: 2

A case study of civicness: Reflections on the story of the Turkish Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly 公民的个案研究:对土耳其赫尔辛基公民大会故事的反思

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Journal of Civil Society Pub Date : 2022-04-03 DOI: 10.1080/17448689.2022.2068629

Murat Belge

引用次数: 1