Civil Society in the Age of Monitory Democracy [Hardcover]

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 centurys challenges. It presents a novel perspective on civic movements testing John Keanes notion of monitory democracy: an emerging order of public scrutiny and monitoring of power.

Lars Tr?g?rdhis Professor of History and Civil Society Studies at?Ersta Sk?ndal 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.?

Bron Tayloris Professor of Religion and Nature at the University of Florida, and a Carson Fellow at the Rachel Carson Center in Munich.

Introduction
Lars Tr?g?rdh and Nina Witoszek

Chapter 1.The Dawn of Monitory Democracy
John Keane

Chapter 2.Civil Society in the Age of Crisis
John Clark

Chapter 3.Digital Deprivation: New Media, Civil Society and Sustainability
Paddy Coulter and Cathy Baldwin

Chapter 4.Monitory versus Managed Democracy: Does Civil Society Matter in Contemporary Russia?
Kathryn Stoner-Weiss

Chapter 5.Monitory Democracy and Ecological Civilization in the Peoples Republic of China
James Miller

Chapter 6.Tenuous Spaces: Civil Society in Burma/Myanmar
David Steinberg

Chapter 7.