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Kansalaistoiminta ja kansalaisyhteiskunta

2010

Kompetenssi, koherenssi ja kovaäänisyys kansalaisten osallistumisessa

2013

Kansalaisyhteiskunnan tutkimuksen seura yhdistää tutkijat ja kehittäjät

2010

[Ensimmäinen kappale] Kansalaisyhteiskunnan tutkimuksen seura perustettiin Jyväskylässä lokakuussa 2009. Seuran perustamisen taustalla on kansalaisyhteiskunnan tärkeys ja lisääntyvä merkitys kansalaisten demokraattisen ja sosiaalisen toiminnan alueena. Tämä nä- kyy monin tavoin alan tutkimuksen, opetuksen ja kehittämistyön korostumisena ja siitä avautuvina käytännön tarpeina. Suomalaisen kansalaisyhteiskunnan tutkimus on ollut varsin vilkasta, mutta hajanaista ja muodollisesti heikosti verkostoitunut- ta. Seuran tavoitteena on edistää kansalaisyhteiskunnan monitieteistä tutkimusta ja siihen pohjautuvaa kehittämistyötä Suomessa. Se toimii yhdysverkostona eri or- ganisaatioissa toimivien tutk…

Practices and habits of citizenship and learning

2019

This chapter discusses the volume’s theoretical underpinnings, which are derived from philosophical pragmatism. One of the key ideas of this research project has been to bring philosophical and empirical research into dialogue by following the principles of pragmatism. Pragmatism sees the relationship between theory and practice as bidirectional: all theories must be subjected to revision in light of practice but, at the same time, a crucial role of theories is to critique current practices. At the level of methodology this implies that theorizing must be tied to what people do. The second central feature of pragmatism is that human experience is a crucial starting point of inquiry; pragmat…

Ympäristökansalaisuuden kyläsepät

1999

Introduction

2020

This chapter provides a general introduction to the edited volume of Citizenship Practices in East Africa: Perspectives from Philosophical Pragmatism. It contextualizes the contribution of the book within three ongoing discussions: first, on the role of a normative starting point in development research; second, on the principle of philosophical pragmatism of starting theorizing from human practices; and third, on the efforts to conceptualize citizenship on the basis of everyday experiences. The chapter sets the main objectives of the book as to articulate a concept of citizenship based on philosophical pragmatism, to explore a variety of practices in which citizenship habits are acquired a…

Practices of Citizenship in East Africa : Perspectives from Philosophical Pragmatism

2020

Practices of Citizenship in East Africa uses insights from philosophical pragmatism to explore how to strengthen citizenship within developing countries. Using a bottom-up approach, the book investigates the various everyday practices in which citizenship habits are formed and reformulated. In particular, the book reflects on the challenges of implementing the ideals of transformative and critical learning in the attempts to promote active citizenship. Drawing on extensive empirical research from rural Uganda and Tanzania and bringing forward the voices of African researchers and academics, the book highlights the importance of context in defining how habits and practices of citizenship are…

Conclusions

2020

Reimagining Civil Society Collaborations in Development : Starting from the South

2023

At a time when uneven power dynamics are high on development actors’ agenda, this book will be an important contribution to researchers and practitioners working on innovation in development and civil society. While there is much discussion of localization, decolonization and ‘shifting power’ in civil society collaborations in development, the debate thus far centers on the aid system. This book directs attention to CSOs as drivers of development in various contexts that we refer to as the Global South. This book take a transformative stance, reimagining roles, relations and processes. It does so from five complementary angles: (1) Southern CSOs reclaiming the lead, 2) displacement of the N…

Conclusions

2023

This concluding chapter returns to the questions posed in the introductory chapter, reflects on the answers to these provided by the individual chapters, and reviews the main insights emerging from the five sections of the book. It also discusses an agenda for further exploration, research, design, and experimentation concerning reimagining civil society collaborations in development in order to ‘start from the South’. Research and the work of practitioners are integrated here, as they will need to feed into each other to advance the fundamental transformations called for in this book. nonPeerReviewed