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Events
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Beyond NGOs: Civil and Uncivil Society in the 21st Century
Provisional date 26/27 February or 5/6 March 2009
(to be confirmed in early September 2008)
London
Provisional call for papers (Word)
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Citizen Participation and Democratic Engagement:
Learning between North and South
An international colloquium: 27th-28th October 2008, The Create Centre, Bristol, UK
Please send a short abstract (no more than one side of A4) to joanna.howard@uwe.ac.uk by 31 July 2008.
More details on Events page.
Podcast lecture
Why Civilisations Can't Climb Hills: a political history of statelessness in Southeast Asia
Speaker: Professor James Scott
Chair: Professor Jude Howell
Professor Scott argues that the hill peoples of mainland Southeast Asia are fugitive, runaway populations, practising 'escape agriculture', 'escape social structure' and 'escape culture'. Jim Scott is Sterling Professor of Political Science and Anthropology at Yale University.
Available as: mp3 (19 mb; approx 81 minutes)
New project
New Publications
- You can now read the abstracts of March's European Development Aid and NGOs: Changing Notions of Civil Society in "North" and "South" Workshop here.
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Democracy Building and Civil Society in Post-Soviet Armenia
Armine Ishkanian
More information
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Civil Society Working Paper 24
Civil Society and Gender Equality: A Theoretical Approach
Sonia Reverter-Bañón
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The backlash against civil society in the wake of the Long War on Terror
Jude Howell, Armine Ishkanian, Ebenezer Obadare, Hakan Seckinelgin, and Marlies Glasius
Development in Practice, Volume 18, Number 1, February 2008
Voluntary Sector Working Papers
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How does one voluntary organisation engage with multiple stakeholder views of effectiveness? - Sarah Mistry
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Can the Compact guard the independence of voluntary organisations and the autonomy of their stakeholders? - Jonathan Roberts
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