Conflict, Citizenship and Civil Society
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 into: 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, minoritiesimmigrantsrefugees and the extension of citizenship; violence in modernity; the place of civil society for sociology; and postcolonialism, trauma and civil society.
Patrick Baert is Fellow of Selwyn College and Reader in Social Theory at the University of Cambridge.
Sokratis M. Koniordos (MA, Kent, Ph.D., London) is Associate Professor in Economic Sociology at the Department of Sociology, University of Crete.
Giovanna Procacci is Professor of Sociology and Social Theory at the University of Milan (Faculty of Political Sciences) and member of CNRS-GRASS (Groupe dAnalyse et de Recherche sur le Social) in Paris.
Carlo Ruzza (MA, SUNY, Ph.D., Harvard) teaches Sociology at the University of Leicester and has previously taught at the Universities of Essex and Surrey.
Routledge/European Sociological Association Studies in European Societies
Series editor: Sokratis M. Koniordos
1 European Societies
Fusion or fission?
Edited by Thomas P. Boje, Bart van Steebergen and Sylvia Walby
2 The Myth of Generational Conflict
The family and state in ageing societies
Edited by Sara Arber and Claudine Attias-Donfut
3 The End of the Welfare State?
Responses to state retrenchment
Edited by Peter Taylor-Gooby and Stefan Svallfors
4 Will Europe Work?
Integration, employment and the social order
Edited by Martin Kohli and Mojca Novak
5 Inclusions and Exclusions in European Societies
Edited by Martin Kohli and Alison Woodward
6 Young Europeans, Work and Family
Futures in transition
Edited by Julia Brannen, Suzan Lewis, Ann Nilsen and Janet Smithsen
7 Autobiographies of Transformation
Lives in Central and Eastern Europe
Edited by Mike Keen and Janusz Mucha
8 Europe and Asia Beyond East and West
Edited by Gerard Delanty
9 Cultural Overstretch
Differences between old and new member states of the EU and Turkey
Edited by Jrgen Gerhards
10 Social Class in Europe
An introduction to the European socio-economic classification
Edited by David Rose and Eric Harrison
11 Conflict, Citizenship and Civil Society
Edited by Patrick Baert, Sokratis M. Koniordos, Giovanna Procacci and Carlo Ruzza
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2010 Patrick Baert, Sokratis M. Koniordos, Giovanna Procacci,
Carlo Ruzza for selection and editorial material; the contributors
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Conflict, citizenship and civil society/edited by Patrick Baert [et al.].
p.cm. (Routledge/European Sociological Association studies in
European societies; 11)
1. Social conflict. 2. Citizenship Social aspects. 3. Civil society.
4. Europe Social conditions. 5. Europe Politics and government.
I. Baert, Patrick, 1961
HM1121.C66352010
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