Civic Discourse, Civil Society and Chinese Communities

Making a humanities town: knowledge-infused clusters, civic entrepreneurship and civil society in local innovation systems

Knowledge-infused clusters, involving governmental and university, as well as firm actors are the epitome of contemporary economic development strategy. The role of Southern Oregon University (SOU) in the inception of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF) gives rise to a model for education-focused universities to play a significant role in local economic development through creation of cultura...

Civil Society Reconsidered: The Durable Nature and Community Structure of Collective Civic Action

Civic Associations and Urban Communities

Dialogue From Communities of Practice to Communities of Resistance: Civil society and cognitive justice

MAJA VAN DER VELDEN ABSTRACT Maja van der Velden looks at how knowledge and power are played out in development literature and practice examining the role of knowledge, public goods and the new information communications technology (ICT) in managing and sharing knowledge. She discusses the World Bank’s knowledge-fordevelopment paradigm arguing that the paradigm of knowledge management on which ...

democracy and civil society

since there are various views on the civil society, in this paper the writer first introduces two main views, a limited view and a broad view, explaining the concept based on these two views. the two views, formed by social and political theorists, are firmly grounded in political and social literature. to explain the concept, the writer introduces the indexes of the civil society, the most imp...