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State and Civil Society: Explorations in Political Theory
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A Conceptual History of Civil Society The Hegelian, Marxian and the Gramscian Tradition Civil Society Reconsidered The Constitution of the Civil Sphere Civil Society as the Arena of Contestation Restating the Need for Civil Society as mentioned in this paper.Abstract:
Of States and of Civil Societies Thinking about the State Civil Society A Conceptual History Civil Society The Hegelian, Marxian and the Gramscian Tradition Civil Society Reconsidered The Constitution of the Civil Sphere Civil Society as the Arena of Contestation Restating the Need for Civil Societyread more
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Bringing the State Back In (Yet Again): Reviews, Revisions, Rejections, and Redirections
TL;DR: The first major post-war revival of theoretical interest in the state that began in Western Europe during the mid-1960s was mainly led by Marxists interested in the general form and functions of the capitalist state; but a key supporting role was played by Marxist-feminists who extended such ideas to the patriarchal capitalist state as discussed by the authors.
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The State of Globalization Legal Plurality, Overlapping Sovereignties and Ambiguous Alliances between Civil Society and the Cunning State in India
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the state remains indispensable as its laws and policies play a key role in transposing neo-liberal agendas to the national and local levels, and that resistance to it is also articulated in the language of law.
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Spaces at the Margins: Migrant Domestic Workers and the Development of Civil Society in Singapore
Brenda S. A. Yeoh,Shirlena Huang +1 more
TL;DR: In the context of international labour migration in the Asia Pacific region, where migrant women are moving as paid reproductive labour in large numbers from less-developed countries to rapidly industrialising urban nodes in the region as discussed by the authors.
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Civil Society and Political Change in Asia: Expanding and Contracting Democratic Space
TL;DR: Alagappa et al. as mentioned in this paper present a collection of essays from two workshops in Honolulu and Phnom Penh held in 2002, focusing on expanding and contracting the Democratic Space.
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'Heart' and 'Wing', Nation and Diaspora: Gendered discourses in Singapore's regionalisation process
Brenda S. A. Yeoh,Katie Willis +1 more
TL;DR: The authors argue that the state-vaunted "go-regional" policy is a pervasively masculine construction and that the way they interlock is shaped by particular gender ideologies and relations.