Full Description
This book provides readers - students, researchers, academics, policy-makers, activists and interested non-specialists - with a sophisticated understanding of contemporary discussion, analysis and theorizing of issues pertaining to conflict, citizenship and civil society. It does so through thirteen pieces of most recent in-depth sociological research that delve on: challenges to citizenship, civil society and citizenship in early and late modernity, the reflexive imperative in transformations of civil society, social conflict challenges to social science approaches, methodology and explanatory power, gender, minorities-immigrants-refugees and the extension of citizenship, violence in modernity, the place of civil society for sociology, and postcolonialism, trauma, and civil society.
Contents
1. Introduction Part 1: Conceptual Explorations 2. New Challenges to Citizenship 3.Civil Society and Citizenship in Early and Late Modernity 4. Reflexivity's Transformations: The Demise of Routine Action and its Consequences for Civil Society 5. Conflict, Citizenship and Civil Society: How Emerging Social Conflicts Challenge Social Science Approaches Part 2: Thematizing Conflict, Citizenship and Civil Society 6. Citizenship, Civil Society and Conflict: A Gendered Perspective 7. Caring and Social Citizenship: Gender Matters 8. Democratization in Central and Eastern Europe and the Changing Nature of Minority Issues 9. The Extension of Citizenship Rights to Non-Citizens 10. From Rights to Duties? Welfare and Citizenship for Immigrants and Refugees in Scandinavia Part 3: Rethinking Conflict, Citizenship and Civil Society 11. Conflict, Violence and Civil Society: An Attempt at Understanding Violence in Modernity 12. Recovering Civil Society: Does Sociology Need It? 13. Putting Society Together: What Qualitative Research Can and Cannot Say about Identities in Civil Society 14. Postcolonialism, Trauma, and Civil Society 15. Trajectories of Civil Society: New Political Spaces, Institutionalization and Conflict
