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Civil society, or citizen's groups, have taken centre stage in
international policy debates and global problem solving. They hold
out the promise of a global community and global governance. This
volume, by leading scholars and participants, shows how to
understand the changes that are occurring, particularly in relation
to the international institutions involved. It includes case
studies from all the major social movements of the 1990s.
In an increasingly globalized world, place matters more than ever.
This concept especially holds true in Appalachian studies -- a
field that brings scholars, activists, artists, and citizens
together around the region to contest misappropriations of
resources and power and to combat stereotypes of isolation and
intolerance. In Appalachia in Regional Context: Place Matters,
Dwight B. Billings and Ann E. Kingsolver assemble scholars and
artists from a variety of disciplines to broaden the conversation
and challenge the binary opposition between regionalism and
globalism. In addition to theoretical explorations of place, some
of the case studies examine foodways, depictions of gendered and
racialized Appalachian identity in popular culture, the experiences
of rural LGBTQ youth, and the pitfalls and promises of teaching
regional studies. Drawing on ideas from cultural anthropology,
sociology, and a variety of other fields, and interleaved with
poems by bell hooks, this volume furthers the examination of new
perspectives on one of America's most compelling and misunderstood
regions.
How does citizen activism win changes in national policy? Which
factors help to make myriad efforts by diverse actors add up to
reform? What is needed to overcome setbacks, and to consolidate the
smaller victories? These questions need answers. Aid agencies have
invested heavily in supporting civil society organizations as
change agents in fledgling and established democracies alike.
Evidence gathered by donors, NGOs and academics demonstrates how
advocacy and campaigning can reconfigure power relations and
transform governance structures at the local and global levels. In
the rush to go global or stay local, however, the national policy
sphere was recently neglected. Today, there is growing recognition
of the key role of champions of change inside national governments,
and the potential of their engagement with citizen activists
outside. These advances demand a better understanding of how
national and local actors can combine approaches to simultaneously
work the levers of change, and how their successes relate to actors
and institutions at the international level. This book brings
together eight studies of successful cases of citizen activism for
national policy changes in South Africa, Morocco, Brazil, Chile,
Mexico, Turkey, India and the Philippines. They detail the dynamics
and strategies that have led to the introduction, change or
effective implementation of policies responding to a range of
rights deficits. Drawing on influential social science theory about
how political and social change occurs, the book brings new
empirical insights to bear on it, both challenging and enriching
current understandings.
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