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From 'New Spirit' to New Steel-Hard Casing? Civil Society Actors, Capitalism, and Crisis: The Case of Attac in Europe

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The article was published on 2013-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 2 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Civil society & Capitalism.

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The institution of critique and the critique of institutions

TL;DR: The authors argue that Boltanski's pragmatic sociology makes an important contribution to two central concerns of critical theory: the empirical analysis of the contradictions and conflicts of critical theories, and the analysis of conflicts among critical theories.
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A new spirit across sectors: Constructing a common justification for corporate volunteering

TL;DR: In this paper, a pragmatic sociological approach is adopted to analyse the discursive processes that nurture or hinder these encounters and the corporate volunteering activities they aim to produce, which brings to the fore the nonprofit perspective by analysing 39 semi-structured interviews with Dutch and Belgian nonprofit professionals who were engaged in corporate volunteering coordination.
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The institution of critique and the critique of institutions

TL;DR: The authors argue that Boltanski's pragmatic sociology makes an important contribution to two central concerns of critical theory: the empirical analysis of the contradictions and conflicts of critical theories, and the analysis of conflicts among critical theories.
Journal ArticleDOI

A new spirit across sectors: Constructing a common justification for corporate volunteering

TL;DR: In this paper, a pragmatic sociological approach is adopted to analyse the discursive processes that nurture or hinder these encounters and the corporate volunteering activities they aim to produce, which brings to the fore the nonprofit perspective by analysing 39 semi-structured interviews with Dutch and Belgian nonprofit professionals who were engaged in corporate volunteering coordination.