Research Agenda for Civil Society

Edited by Kees Biekart, Associate Professor of Political Sociology, International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands and Alan Fowler, Honorary Professor of African Philanthropy and Social Investment, University of Witwatersrand Business School, South Africa

• Contents:1 A research agenda for civil society: introductionand overview 1Kees Biekart and Alan FowlerPART I STUDYING CIVIL SOCIETY2 Funding civil society research 17David Sogge3 Epistemologies of civil society 33Patricia Maria E. Mendonça4 Civil society studies in Brazil: from third sector touncivil society? 45Mário Aquino Alves5 Civic deviance and lawlessness: the aftermath ofJanuary 6, 2021 55Roseanne Mirabella and W. King Mott6 Measuring the values of civil society in the MiddleEast and North Africa regions 69Ali Bakir Hamoudi7 Mapping civil society 83Susan AppePART II CIVIL SOCIETY TYPOLOGIES8 Human rights organizations and civil society 99Antoine Buyse and Verónica Gómez9 From humanitarian diplomacy to advocacy:a research agenda 111Dorothea Hilhorst and Margit van Wessel10 NGOs and innovation 127Ana Luisa Silva11 Emergent agency in a time of Covid 143Irene Guijt, Duncan Green, Filippo Artuso and Katrina Barnes12 Civil society and (re‑)embedding volunteering 161Lucas Meijs and Stephanie Koolen-Maas13 The value of diasporic cross-border philanthropyand voluntourism 173Philine S.M. van Overbeeke and Malika Ouacha14 New and fluid forms of organizing volunteering 189Cristine Dyhrberg Højgaard15 Public administration as a site of struggle forsocial justice 201Chris McInerneyPART III HISTORIOGRAPHIES OF CIVIL SOCIETY16 Pro-social giving and reciprocity in the Global South 215John C. H. Godfrey17 Connecting African civil society to its roots 229Alan Fowler and Shauna Mottiar18 Understanding diversity of South Caucasus civil society 243Yevgenya Jenny Paturyan19 The Polish case: from darling to endangered species? 255Galia Chimiak20 Civil society in the Southern Cone of Latin America 271Pablo Marsal Baraldi21 The future of civil society research in China, HongKong and Vietnam 283Mark SidelPART IV CONCLUSIONS22 Civil society research: future perspectives 295Alan Fowler and Kees BiekartIndex

‘A Research Agenda for Civil Society provides a much needed synopsis of the antecedents, internal contradictions, and promises of civil society within a comparative African-Global Southern Context. At a time of pervasive political and epistemological uncertainty, the book throws precious critical light on a subject of increasing academic and policy relevance.’