Questions of Civil Society

Category-Position-Functionality
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4438-5294-4
Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 309 Seiten

Reihe: Series: Copernicus Graduate School Papers (CGS Papers)/ Copernicus Graduate School Studies (CGS Studies)

This book is devoted to questions and research problems generated by the issue of civil society. It contains contributions from mostly young scientists, who develop various approaches to the position and functionality of civil society, examining different examples from both the past and the present, based on theoretical approaches to this concept. As a result, the volume adopts an interdisciplinary perspective, which allows the identification of various levels of the concept of the civil society, and insight into its multiformity, in terms of its reality, and its interpretation and depiction as a means of political and social self-determination.

The book provides fluid interpretation patterns, and avoids working with the term ‘civil society’ in any fixed, definitional mode. The editors’ and authors’ aim, as well as the main objective of the volume, is to refresh and stimulate the discussion and point out exemplary fields of research, which will bring interesting explanations and impulses to the formulation of innovative research questions regarding the concept of civil society. Finally, the book explains and underlines the pivotal role of the civil society in the upheavals of the 21st century, as well as provides an understanding of it as a fundamental structural element of the necessary renegotiation of the relations between the state and society.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schattkowsky, Ralph

Jarosz, Adam

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Staatsbürgerkunde, Staatsbürgerschaft, Zivilgesellschaft

Über Autor(innen)

Ralph Schattkowsky is Professor and Head of the International Relations History Department at the Faculty of Political Sciences and International Studies at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland. He is also head of the board of the Copernicus Graduate School and Associated Professor at the University of Rostock, Germany. His scientific interests concentrate on German-Polish relations, the history of Central and Eastern Europe, nationalism and civil society.

Adam Jarosz, PhD, graduated in International Relations, with a German specialisation, from the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland. He is scientific secretary of the Copernicus Graduate School. His scientific interests concentrate on local governments with a focus on cities, governance and social participation at the local level, border regions, German history and current issues, German-Polish relations, systemic transformation after 1989, as well as the position of the president in the Polish political system.