Civil Society in an Age of Uncertainty
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Civil Society in an Age of Uncertainty

Institutions, Governance and Existential Challenges

  1. 200 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
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eBook - ePub

Civil Society in an Age of Uncertainty

Institutions, Governance and Existential Challenges

About this book

This book explores how the uncertainties of the 21st century present existential challenges to civil society. These include changing modes of governance (through devolution and Brexit), austerity, migration, growing digital divides, issues of (mis)trust and democratic confidence, welfare delivery and the COVID-19 pandemic and the contemporary threat to minority languages and cultures.

Presenting original empirical findings, this book brings together core strands of social theory to provide a new way of understanding existential challenges to the form and function of civil society. It highlights pressing social issues and transferable lessons that will inform policy and practice in today's age of uncertainty.

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Yes, you can access Civil Society in an Age of Uncertainty by Paul Chaney, Ian Jones, Paul Chaney,Ian Rees Jones,Ian Jones in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Politics & International Relations & Nonprofit Organizations & Charities. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Series Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. List of Tables and Figures
  7. Notes on contributors
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. 1 Introduction: Locating civil society
  10. 2 Existential challenges
  11. 3 Civil society and the governance of city region economic development
  12. 4 Civil society, pandemic and the crisis of welfare: exploring mixed economy models of welfare in domiciliary adult social care in a devolved UK
  13. 5 The contemporary threat to minority languages and cultures: civil society, young people and Celtic language use in Scotland and Wales
  14. 6 Digital threat or opportunity? Local civil society in an age of global inter-connectivity
  15. 7 Democratic decline? Civil society and trust in government
  16. 8 Xenophobia, hostility and austerity: European migrants and civil society in Wales
  17. 9 Meeting the challenge? Prospects and perils for civil society in the twenty-first century
  18. Index