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The Handbook of Civil Society in Africa (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2014)
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The Handbook of Civil Society in Africa (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2014)
Series: Nonprofit and Civil Society Studies, 20
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This volume brings together the most up to date analyses of civil
society in Africa from the best scholars and researchers working on
the subject. Being the first of its kind, it casts a panoramic look
at the African continent, drawing out persisting, if often
under-communicated, variations in regional discourses. In a
majority of notionally 'global' studies, Africa has received
marginal attention, a marginality often highlighted by the usual
token chapter. Filling a critical hiatus, theHandbook of Civil
Society in Africa takes Africa, African developments, and African
perspectives very seriously and worthy of academic interrogation in
their own right. It offers a critical, clear-sighted perspective on
civil society in Africa, and positions African discourses within
the framework of important regional and global debates. It promises
to be an invaluable reference work for researchers and
practitioners working in the fields of civil society, nonprofit
studies, development studies, volunteerism, civic service, and
African studies. Endorsements: "This volume signposts a critical
turning point in the renewed engagement with the theory and
practice of civil society in Africa. Moving from traditional
concerns with disquisitions on the appropriateness and possibility
of the existence and vibrancy of the idea of civil society on the
continent, the volume approaches the forms, contents, and features
of the actually existing civil society in Africa from thematic,
regional, and national angles. It demonstrates clearly the extent
to which core intellectual work on civil society in Africa has
largely moved from concerns with cultural reductionism to a nuanced
examination of the complexities of (formal, non-formal,
organizational, non-organizational, traditional, newer, usual,
unusual) engagements, detailing the extent to which, over time,
civil society as a concept has been indigenized, appropriated and
adapted in the terrains of politics, society, economy, culture and
new technologies on the continent. In all this, the book
accomplishes the near-impossible. Without sacrificing the vigour,
rigor and freshness of the often unpredictable fruits of up-to-date
research into regional and national differences that crop up in the
documentation of Africa's multiple realities and discourses, the
volume weaves together a rich tapestry of the historical,
theoretical and practical dimensions of an expanding civil society
sector, and accompanying growth in popular discourse, advocacy, and
academic literature, in such a diverse continent as Africa, into a
meaningful whole of insightful themes. Written and edited by a very
distinguished cross-continental and multi-disciplinary collection
of researchers, research students, practitioners and activists, the
volume provides cutting-edge evidence and makes a definitive case
for a new lease of life for civil society research in Africa."
-Adigun Agbaje, Professor of Political Science, University of
Ibadan, Nigeria. "Throughout Africa, forms of civic engagement and
political participation have seen dynamic change in recent decades,
yet conceptions of civil society have rarely accounted for this
evolution. This volume is an essential source of new thinking about
political association and collective action in Africa. The authors
offer a wealth of analysis on changing organizations and social
movements, new forms of interaction and communication, emerging
strategies and issues, diverse social foundations, and the
theoretical implications of a shifting associational landscape. The
contributors provide an invaluable addition to the comparative
literature on political change, democratic development, and social
movements in Africa." Peter Lewis, Johns Hopkins University School
of Advanced international Studies
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