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Interrogating Civic Space: Applying a Civic-Driven Change Perspective
Throughout the world, we recognise a tendency for civic space to be limited by governments and private sector actors. A common reason is to reduce the advocacy pressure of civil society groups on their interests. But the issue seems to be more complex than just a tendency of ‘shrinking civic space’ which is undermining development. We see the influence of historical latency on civic agency and actors within socio-political processes, contributing to a renaissance of nationalisms as being a key problem. The question arises how civic agency is deployed to counteract these initiatives, and how latent civic resistance is being mobilised. A framework of civic-driven change is applied to analyse the political potential of these forces, and in this way also to ‘interrogate’ civic space. Is this really a useful tool for analysing opportunities for social resistance, or is it rather a way to depoliticise civil society discourse?
Interrogating Civic Space: Applying a Civic-Driven Change Perspective
Throughout the world, we recognise a tendency for civic space to be limited by governments and private sector actors. A common reason is to reduce the advocacy pressure of civil society groups on their interests. But the issue seems to be more complex than just a tendency of ‘shrinking civic space’ which is undermining development. We see the influence of historical latency on civic agency and actors within socio-political processes, contributing to a renaissance of nationalisms as being a key problem. The question arises how civic agency is deployed to counteract these initiatives, and how latent civic resistance is being mobilised. A framework of civic-driven change is applied to analyse the political potential of these forces, and in this way also to ‘interrogate’ civic space. Is this really a useful tool for analysing opportunities for social resistance, or is it rather a way to depoliticise civil society discourse?
Interrogating Civic Space: Applying a Civic-Driven Change Perspective
Biekart, Kees (author) / Fowler, Alan (author) / Biekart, Kees / Kontinen, Tiina / Millstein, Marianne
2023-05-25
Biekart , K & Fowler , A 2023 , Interrogating Civic Space: Applying a Civic-Driven Change Perspective . in K Biekart , T Kontinen & M Millstein (eds) , Civil Society Responses to Changing Civic Spaces . 1 edn , Palgrave Macmillan , EADI Global Development Series , pp. 27-48 . https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-23305-0_2
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