Civil Society in the Age of Monitory Democracy
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- ISBN 9780857457561
- Format: Hardback
- Weight: 649g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 May 2013
- Publisher: Berghahn Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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Since the emergence of the dissident "parallel polis" in Eastern Europe, civil society has become a "new superpower," influencing democratic transformations, human rights, and international co-operation; co-designing economic trends, security and defense; reshaping the information society; and generating new ideas on the environment, health, and the "good life." This volume seeks to compare and reassess the role of civil society in the rich West, the poorer South, and the quickly expanding East in the context of the twenty-first century's challenges. It presents a novel perspective on civic movements testing John Keane's notion of "monitory democracy:" an emerging order of public scrutiny and monitoring of power. To what extent does the monitory function of civil society ensure a political, cultural and economic innovation for a more sustainable future? In what ways are the mushrooming civic organizations a secret sharer of the states and industries' machinations?
Lars Tragardh is Professor of History and Civil Society Studies at Ersta Skondal University College in Stockholm, Sweden. In 2011 he was appointed to the Commission on the Future of Sweden led by the Prime Minister of Sweden, Fredrik Reinfeldt. Publications include State and Civil Society in Northern Europe: The Swedish Model Reconsidered (2007), After National Democracy: Rights, Law and Power in America and the New Europe (2004), and Culture and Crisis: the Case of Germany and Sweden (with Nina Witoszek, 2002). Nina Witoszek is Research Professor and Research Director at the Centre for Development and the Environment at the University of Oslo. Her studies include Culture and Crisis: the Case of Germany and Scandinavia (with Lars Tragardh, 2002) and Cultural Origins of the Norwegian Regime of Goodness (2011). Nina Witoszek is also a fiction and film script writer (known as Nina FitzPatrick), whose work includes Fables of the Irish Intelligentsia (1992), The Loves of Faustyna (1995) and Daimons (2003). Bron Taylor is Professor of Religion and Nature at the University of Florida, and a Carson Fellow at the Rachel Carson Center in Munich. His publications include Dark Green Religion: Nature Spirituality and the Planetary Future (2010), The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature (2005), and Ecological Resistance Movements (1995). Taylor also founded and served as President of the International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture, and is editor of the society's Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture.
