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NGOs, civil society and structural changes / Acar Kutay.

9783030718626 (electronic bk.)
303071862X (electronic bk.)
9783030718619
3030718611

Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]

©2021

English

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10.1007/978-3-030-71862-6 doi

JZ4841 .K88 2021

341.2

This book suggests that our notions of civil society have undergone radical changesincluding structural changes in the nature of Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs). Such massive structural changes greatly problematize the older liberal view of a simple split between state and civil society actors which nonetheless remains dominant in much of social and political sciences. The author argues that the naturalist and behaviorist approaches to civil society occlude the fact that citizens increasingly live within a particular and highly contestable way of imagining and constructing civil society. The book shows that changes in how civil society is conceptualized and organized around new practices, might mark radically new conceptions of the state that are ideologically neo-liberal and subtle in the ways they disempower ordinary citizens. Acar Kutay Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Istanbul Kent University, Istanbul, Turkey.

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