The Handbook of Civil Society in Africa
暫譯: 非洲公民社會手冊
Obadare, Ebenezer
- 出版商: Springer
- 出版日期: 2013-09-21
- 售價: $8,520
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- 語言: 英文
- 頁數: 490
- 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
- ISBN: 1461482615
- ISBN-13: 9781461482611
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商品描述
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
商品描述(中文翻譯)
這本書匯集了目前非洲公民社會的最新分析，來自於在該主題上工作的最佳學者和研究者。作為首部此類作品，它全景式地觀察非洲大陸，揭示了持續存在的、雖然常常未被充分傳達的區域話語變化。在大多數名義上「全球」的研究中，非洲往往受到邊緣化的關注，這種邊緣化通常由於常見的象徵性章節而被強調。《非洲公民社會手冊》填補了這一關鍵空白，認真對待非洲、非洲發展和非洲觀點，並認為這些主題本身值得學術探討。它提供了對非洲公民社會的批判性、清晰的視角，並將非洲話語置於重要的區域和全球辯論框架之中。這本書將成為從事公民社會、非營利研究、發展研究、志願服務、公民服務和非洲研究的研究者和實踐者的重要參考資料。
**推薦語：**
「這本書標誌著重新參與非洲公民社會理論與實踐的一個關鍵轉折點。它不再僅僅關注於對於公民社會在大陸上存在和活力的適當性和可能性的傳統關注，而是從主題、區域和國家的角度探討非洲實際存在的公民社會的形式、內容和特徵。」
「它清楚地展示了非洲公民社會的核心智識工作在多大程度上已經從對文化簡化主義的關注轉向對（正式、非正式、組織性、非組織性、傳統、新興、常見、不尋常）互動複雜性的細緻檢視，詳細說明了隨著時間的推移，公民社會作為一個概念在政治、社會、經濟、文化和新技術的領域中是如何被本土化、挪用和適應的。」
「在這一切中，這本書幾乎完成了不可能的任務。在不犧牲對非洲多重現實和話語的最新研究所帶來的活力、嚴謹性和新鮮感的情況下，該書將非洲這個多樣化大陸上不斷擴展的公民社會部門的歷史、理論和實踐維度，以及隨之而來的流行話語、倡導和學術文獻的增長，編織成一幅富有意義的主題全景。」
「這本書由一群非常傑出的跨大陸和多學科的研究者、研究生、實踐者和活動家撰寫和編輯，提供了前沿的證據，並為非洲公民社會研究的新生機做出了明確的論證。」
- Adigun Agbaje，尼日利亞伊巴丹大學政治學教授。
「在整個非洲，公民參與和政治參與的形式在近幾十年中發生了動態變化，但對公民社會的概念卻很少考慮到這一演變。這本書是關於非洲政治聯繫和集體行動的新思考的重要來源。作者提供了對變化中的組織和社會運動、新的互動和交流形式、新興策略和問題、多樣的社會基礎以及變化的聯繫景觀的理論意涵的豐富分析。這些貢獻者為非洲政治變革、民主發展和社會運動的比較文獻提供了寶貴的補充。」
- Peter Lewis，約翰霍普金斯大學高級國際研究學院。
作者簡介
Ebenezer Obadare is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Kansas, Lawrence. He earned his doctorate in Social Policy from the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2005, and has undergraduate and graduate degrees in History (1989) and International Relations (1992) respectively from the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria. A former award-winning journalist, Dr. Obadare's research interests include civil society and the state, religion and politics in Africa, civic service, and citizenship. He has published extensively on these subjects in leading refereed journals, among them Review of African Political Economy (ROAPE), African Affairs, Politique Africaine, Journal of Civil Society, Democratization, Patterns of Prejudice, Africa Development, Critical African Studies, Development in Practice, Journal of Modern African Studies, Journal of Contemporary African Studies, and Journal of Church and State. He is the author of Africa Between the Old and the New: The Strange Persistence of the Postcolonial State (2008); Statism, Youth and the Civic Imagination: A Critical Study of the Nigerian National Youth Service Corps 2010); and co-editor of Encountering the Nigerian State (2010), Nigeria at Fifty: The Nation in Narration (2011), and Democracy and Prebendalism in Nigeria: Critical Interpretations (2013).
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
埃比尼澤·奧巴達雷（Ebenezer Obadare）是堪薩斯大學（University of Kansas, Lawrence）社會學副教授。他於2005年在倫敦政治經濟學院（London School of Economics and Political Science）獲得社會政策博士學位，並於1989年和1992年分別在尼日利亞伊萊伊費的奧巴費米·阿沃洛沃大學（Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife）獲得歷史和國際關係的學士及碩士學位。作為一位曾獲獎的記者，奧巴達雷博士的研究興趣包括公民社會與國家、非洲的宗教與政治、公民服務及公民身份。他在多本領先的同行評審期刊上廣泛發表有關這些主題的文章，其中包括《非洲政治經濟評論》（Review of African Political Economy, ROAPE）、《非洲事務》（African Affairs）、《非洲政治》（Politique Africaine）、《公民社會期刊》（Journal of Civil Society）、《民主化》（Democratization）、《偏見模式》（Patterns of Prejudice）、《非洲發展》（Africa Development）、《批判性非洲研究》（Critical African Studies）、《實踐中的發展》（Development in Practice）、《現代非洲研究期刊》（Journal of Modern African Studies）、《當代非洲研究期刊》（Journal of Contemporary African Studies）和《教會與國家期刊》（Journal of Church and State）。他是《舊與新之間的非洲：後殖民國家的奇怪持續性》（Africa Between the Old and the New: The Strange Persistence of the Postcolonial State, 2008）、《國家主義、青年與公民想像：尼日利亞國家青年服務團的批判性研究》（Statism, Youth and the Civic Imagination: A Critical Study of the Nigerian National Youth Service Corps, 2010）的作者，以及《遭遇尼日利亞國家》（Encountering the Nigerian State, 2010）、《五十年的尼日利亞：敘述中的國家》（Nigeria at Fifty: The Nation in Narration, 2011）和《尼日利亞的民主與預算主義：批判性詮釋》（Democracy and Prebendalism in Nigeria: Critical Interpretations, 2013）的共同編輯。
