Civil Society

Description

"The Inquiry’s definition of civil society includes: civil society as associational life, where people come together voluntarily for actions that lie beyond government or for-private-profit business, including voluntary and community organisations, trade unions, faith-based organisations, co-operatives and informal citizen groups; civil society as a ‘good’ society, grounded in values such as social justice, solidarity, mutuality and sustainability; and civil society as the public sphere, where people and organisations discuss common interests, deliberate solutions to problems, or find ways of reconciling differences." (from the Inquiry into the Future of Civil Society. Geoff Mulgan et al.)

More Information

1. Michel Bauwens: 7.1.E. Towards a civil society-based ‘Common-ism’?
2. Neal Gorenflo: Twenty Rules for Civil Networks

Reports and Books:

1. Inquiry into the Future of Civil Society. Geoff Mulgan et al. Commission of Inquiry into the Future of Civil Society. Carnegie UK Trust, 2010
2. Open Source for Civil Society Organizations: A decision making guide for civil society organizations
3. Book: Reinventing Civil Society. David Green. 1993

Topics:

1. Electronic Civil Disobedience
2. Civil Regulation: rules created outside the statutory realm
3. Civil Corporation, see the book: The Civil Corporation. By Simon Zadek.
4. Civil Societarian
5. Civil Constitutions: apparatuses which regulate the actions of the civil subjects who operate in a certain sector of activity
6. Civil Humanism: a highly particular, and brief, period in Italian history, the first half of the fifteenth century
7. Civil Society Organisations
8. Civil Associations
9. Civil Society-centered Socialism
10. Civil Economy