The Everyday Life of Civil Society
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-031-97584-4 (ISBN)
This book explores the challenges facing third-sector groups in Italy after changes such as the professionalization and commercialization of non-profit groups and their increased role as suppliers of public services in local welfare systems, as well as partners in recent governance arrangements. These changes have sparked debates about the general role of third-sector groups and the potential decline of their role as civil society actors. The book focuses on three major changes and associated debates, exploring their everyday implications to ask the question What are the consequences of shifts in action approaches, civic participation, and relations with public authorities? Backed by four years of ethnographic empirical data, it reveals that the meaning of these changes varies even within a single organization, depending on the observed scenes of its everyday life. By introducing five "scene styles," interaction patterns shaping exchanges between professionals, volunteers, and activists, the book analyses third-sector organizations and reveals unexpected political functions that take shape underneath that which is openly declared.
Sebastiano Citroni is Associate Professor in the Department of Law, Economics and Cultures at Insubria University (in Italian Università degli studi dell Insubria, Italy, where he teaches Sociology of Cultures, Sociology of Communication and Tourism, Sociology of Third Sector Organizations, and Environmental and Urban Sociology. His main research interests are ethnography, civil society and the third sector, urban studies, events, social theory and everyday life. His most recent monograph, L associarsi quotidiano (2022), deals with the political value of civic practices and events, while his previous works include the papers, Civil Society Events and The Emerging Civil Society.
Introduction.-On doing being an ordinary association .-Chapter 1.- Associations as social antennae.-Chapter 2.-The civic action approach.-Chapter 3.-Third-sector organisations in Milan.-emerging needs and current transformations.-Chapter 4.-The dissociative outcome of associative efforts.-Chapter 5.-A festival to address the social needs of the neighbourhood.-Chapter 6.- As water is to fish.-An inquiry into the origins of scene styles.-Conclusions.-Depoliticisation inside out.-the task of metaphorisation .
| Erscheinungsdatum | 13.06.2025 |
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| Reihe/Serie | Palgrave Studies in Third Sector Research |
| Zusatzinfo | XV, 198 p. 2 illus. |
| Verlagsort | Cham |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 148 x 210 mm |
| Themenwelt | Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Planung / Organisation |
| Schlagworte | civic action • Civil Society • ethnography • Scene Styles • Third Sector |
| ISBN-10 | 3-031-97584-7 / 3031975847 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-3-031-97584-4 / 9783031975844 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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