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Knowledge and Civil Society

1st ed. 2022

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Format Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10 3030711463
ISBN-13 9783030711467
Edition 1st ed. 2022
Publisher Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of Manufacture CH
Country of Publication GB
Publication Date Dec 9th, 2021
Print length 316 Pages
Weight 636 grams
Dimensions 16.10 x 24.20 x 2.70 cms
Ksh 8,100.00
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This open access book focuses on the role of civil society in the creation, dissemination, and interpretation of knowledge in geographical contexts. The book includes reflections on civil and uncivil society, the role of civil society as a change agent, and on civil society perspectives of undone science.

Chapter 1. The Place of Civil Society in the Making of Knowledge.- Part I: (Re-)Thinking Civil Society.- Chapter 2. The Dialectic of Civil and Uncivil Society-Fragility, Fault Lines, and Countervailing Forces.-Chapter 3. Civil Society as an Agent of Change.- Chapter 4. Undone Science and Smart Cities: Civil Society Perspectives on Risk and Emerging Technologies.- Part II: Analyzing Civil Society Organizations.- Chapter 5. Specialists for Crumble Cakes? The German LandFrauen Organizations in Social Innovation and as Educational, Social, and Political Institutions.- Chapter 6. Schools of Democracy? Giving Circles and the Civic and Political Participation of Collaborative Philanthropists.- Chapter 7. Time Banks as Transient Civic Organizations? Exploring the Dynamics of Decline.- Part III: Spaces, Networks and Fields.- Chapter 8. Civil Society as Networks of Issues and Associations: The Case of Food.- Chapter 9. The Geography of Giving in the Philanthropic Field.- Chapter 10. Global Authenticity, Local Authority: Epistemic Power, Discursive Geographies, and the Creation of Civil Society Knowledge Networks.- Part IV: Doing Civil Society.- Chapter 11. Democracy Movement and Alternative Knowledge in Hong Kong.- Chapter 12. Epistemic Activism in the United States: Examining Meetings Across the Silos of Civil Society.- Chapter 13. Seeding a New World: Lessons From the #FeesMustFall Movement for the Advancement of Social Justice.- Chapter 14. Civility, Education, and the Embodied Mind-Three Approaches to a New Sentimental Education.


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