Conflict, Citizenship and Civil Society [Hardcover]

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 on: 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, minorities-immigrants-refugees and the extension of citizenship, violence in modernity, the place of civil society for sociology, and postcolonialism, trauma, and civil society.

1. Introduction Partick Baert and Sokratis Koniordos  Part 1:Conceptual Explorations2. New Challenges to Citizenship Giovanna Procacci 3.Civil Society and Citizenship in Early and Late Modernity Nikos Mouzelis 4. Reflexivitys Transformations: The Demise of Routine Action and its Consequences for Civil Society Margaret S. Archer 5. Conflict, Citizenship and Civil Society: How Emerging Social Conflicts Challenge Social Science Approaches Donatella Della Porta  Part 2: Thematizing Conflict, Citizenship and Civil Society6. Citizenship, Civil Society and Conflict: A Gendered Perspective Ruth Lister7. Caring and Social Citizenship: Gender Matters Arnlaug Leira 8. Democratization in Central and Eastern Europe and the Changing Nature of Minority Issues Janusz Mucha 9. The Extension of Citizenship Rights to Non-Citizens Maria I. Baganha 10. From Rights to Duties? Welfare and Citizenship flÖ