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This open access book examines how civil society organizations in Poland, Russia, and Sweden (re)act to transformations of opportunities and limitations in access to various forms of resources. The volume's contributions discuss the constraints associated with different types of resources as well as organizations' capacities to generate resources—or compensate for their lack—as they negotiate and contest barriers. The resourcefulness of civil society is revealed to be rooted in a variety of capabilities: converting resources, eliciting organizational change, and metamorphosing in response to organizational and environmental development. ​

Civil society in Southeast Asia -- Contents -- Preface -- About the Contributors -- 1. Introduction Civil Society in Southeast Asia -- 2. Islam, Constitutional Democracy, and the Islamic State in Malaysia -- 3. Cracks in the Wall of Separation? The Church, Civil Society, and the State in the Philippines -- 4. New Buddhism, Urban Space, and Virtual Civil Society -- 5. Women's Movement in the Philippines and the Politics of Critical Collaboration with the State -- 6. Participation of the Women's Movement in Malaysia: The 1999 General Election -- 7. Civil Society Effectiveness and the Vietnamese State — Despite or Because of the Lack of Autonomy -- 8. Relationship between State and Civil Society in Singapore Clarifying the Concepts, Assessing the Ground -- 9. Civil Society in Malaysia: An Arena of Contestations? -- 10. Ethnicity and the Civil Rights Movement in Indonesia -- 11. Civil Society Discourse and the Future of Radical Environmental Movements in Thailand -- Index.

Inspired by the globality of justice concerns in the 21st century, Global Civil Society 2011 focuses on how civil society actors around the world are framing, contesting and promoting ideas about justice, as well as their strategies to tackle the myriad injustices people face. It identifies an important shift in the globalisation of concerns about justice ₆ citizens may claim benefits from the nation state, but increasingly groups interacting globally are collectivizing a sense of injustice. In this way global civil society has created and expanded new spaces to reinstall justice as inspiration and arbiter of laws. Combining activist and academic accounts of contemporary struggles, this yearbook provides critical insight into how civil society is remaking justice in a global arena, beyond the confines of the nation state.

'This fifth Global Civil Society Yearbook continues the intellectual shaping of an emerging global civil society. As the Global Call for Action on Poverty, G-Cap, makes its voice heard under the whiteband symbol, this analysis of current issues of migration, climate change and UN reform, with a focus on gender and social movements, provides a timely intellectual resource to strengthen shared commitments' - Mary Robinson. In the Yearbook 2005//06 the role of gender in global civil society is explored and the core issues of labour migration, climate change and United Nations reform is investigat

"Contains an introduction to the history, achievements, and challenges of transnational civil society initiatives on several critical issues and the forces that catalyzed and shaped those initiatives"--Provided by publisher

The relationship between the family and civil society has always been complex, with the family often regarded as separate from, or even oppositional to, civil society. Taking a fresh empirical approach, Muddiman, Power and Taylor reveal how such separation underestimates the important role the family plays in civil society. Considering the impact of family events, dinner table debates, intergenerational transmission of virtues and the role of the mother, this enlightening book draws on survey data from 1000 young people, a sample of their parents and grandparents, and extended family interviews, to uncover how civil engagement, activism and political participation are inherited and fostered within the home.

1. Introduction, Zhanna Kravchenko, Lisa Kings and Katarzyna Jezierska -- Part I. Resources as Constraints -- 2. Pecunia olet: The funding dilemma for think tanks in Poland, Katarzyna Jezierska -- 3. Domestic funding for civil society in a non-democratic context: The example of the Presidential Grants in Russia, Yulia Skokova and Christian Fröhlich -- 4.Polish human rights organizations: Resisting institutional pressures, Zhanna Kravchenko, Katarzyna Jezierska, Marta Gumkowska, Beata Charycka, and Magdalena Szafranek -- 5. . Rural community development in Sweden: From challenging to mainstream?, Anette Forsberg -- Part II. External Constraints and Facilitators of Resources- 6. From local to digital and back: E-resourcefulness among urban movements in Poland, Anna Domaradzka.-7. Between autonomy and compliance: The organizational development of Russian civil society, Vsevolod Bederson and Andrei Semenov -- 8. Navigating contemporary developments in Swedish civil society: The case of Save the Children Sweden, Lisa Kings -- 9. Humane resources? The people behind Polish civil society organizations, Galia Chimiak -- Part III. Organizations and Resources: Intertwined Transformations -- 10. Doing the right things or doing things right? Exploring the relationship between professional autonomy and resources in volunteering, Cecilia Gullberg and Noomi Weinryb -- 11. Liberty, loyalty, and solidarity. The role of transnational, national, and local resources in voluntary organizations in Russia, Zhanna Kravchenko -- 12. Resources shifting values: Online and offline resources in Swedish civil society, Håkan Johansson and Gabriella Scaramuzzino.-Chapter -- 13. St. Petersburg LGBTQI+ activists negotiating financial and symbolic resources, Pauliina Lukinmaa.-Chapter 14. Epilogue, Apostolis Papakostas.