{"product_id":"ngos-civil-society-and-structural-changes-9783030718640","title":"Ngos, Civil Society and Structural Changes","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Acar Kutay\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Springer\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Developing \u0026amp; Emerging Countries\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the Back Cover\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book suggests that our notions of civil society have undergone radical changes--including structural changes in the nature of Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs). Such massive structural changes greatly problematize the older liberal view of a simple split between state and civil society actors which nonetheless remains dominant in much of social and political sciences. The author argues that the naturalist and behaviorist approaches to civil society occlude the fact that citizens increasingly live within a particular and highly contestable way of imagining and constructing civil society. The book shows that changes in how civil society is conceptualized and organized around new practices, might mark radically new conceptions of the state that are ideologically neo-liberal and subtle in the ways they disempower ordinary citizens. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAcar Kutay\u003c\/b\u003e Department of Political Science and Public Administration, IstanbulKent University, Istanbul, Turkey.","brand":"Springer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45276632350871,"sku":"9783030718640","price":10174.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9783030718640.webp?v=1769286205","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/ngos-civil-society-and-structural-changes-9783030718640","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}