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The Handbook of Civil Society in Africa

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Introduction: Turning the Table on Gellner: Alternative Discourses of Civil Society in Africa
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    Chapter 2 Escape from Tyranny: Civil Society and Democratic Struggles in Africa
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    Chapter 3 Civil Society and Religion
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    Chapter 4 Theorizing Media as/and Civil Society in Africa
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    Chapter 5 “Good” State, “Bad” State: Loss and Longing in Postcolonial Zimbabwe
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    Chapter 6 NGO Accountability in Africa
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    Chapter 7 Civil Society in the Maghreb: Lessons from the Arab Spring
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    Chapter 8 Civil Society Organizations and the State in East Africa: From the Colonial to the Modern Era
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    Chapter 9 Civil Society and the Politics of Belonging in Southern Africa
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    Chapter 10 Building Civil Society in West Africa: Notes from the Field
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    Chapter 11 Imagining Civil Society in Zimbabwe and ‘Most of the World’
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    Chapter 12 Viral Messaging, Satire, and Spaces of Resistance in Nigeria
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    Chapter 13 Civil Society and Conflict in West Africa
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    Chapter 14 Neoliberalism and the Forms of Civil Society in Kenya and South Africa
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    Chapter 15 Africa Rising? Afro-Optimism and Uncivil Society in an Era of Economic Volatility
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    Chapter 16 Civil Society and Neoliberalism
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    Chapter 17 Popular Organizations in South Africa: From Civics to Service Delivery Protests
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    Chapter 18 “If Good Food is Cooked in One Country, We Will All Eat from It”: Women and Civil Society in Africa
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    Chapter 19 NGOs, Civil Society, and Development
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    Chapter 20 Civil Society and Sexual Struggles in Africa
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    Chapter 21 Civil Society’s Response to the HIV/AIDS Crisis in Africa
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    Chapter 22 Orature as a Site for Civil Contestation: Film and the Decolonization of Space and Place in Tsisti Dangarembga’s Kare Kare Zvako ( Mother ’ s Day ) 2005
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    Chapter 23 Civil Society and Aid in Africa: A Case of Mistaken Identity?
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    Chapter 24 Volunteering, Civic Service and Civil Society in Africa
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    Chapter 25 Philanthropic Foundations and Civil Society in Sub-Saharan Africa
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    Chapter 26 Volunteering, Civic Agency, and Citizenship in Africa
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Title
The Handbook of Civil Society in Africa
Published by
Springer-Verlag New York, January 2014
DOI 10.1007/978-1-4614-8262-8
ISBNs
978-1-4614-8261-1, 978-1-4614-8262-8, 978-1-4939-4536-8
Editors

Ebenezer Obadare

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Country Count As %
Unknown 40 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 4 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 5%
Researcher 2 5%
Student > Ph. D. Student 1 3%
Professor 1 3%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 30 75%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 7 18%
Environmental Science 1 3%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 1 3%
Design 1 3%
Unknown 30 75%