Publications
The following list is a compilation of members' publications relevant to the research cluster's area of focus.
Knowledge programme on civil society building
Central America
- Acevedo, S. (2011) ‘Concepciones, practicas, saberes y reivindicaciones en la defensa de la tierra y el territorio, frente a los proyectos de minería’. (La lucha de las doce comunidades Mayas de San Juan Sacatepéquez, Guatemala). Mimeo, Guatemala: CALDH
- Cuadra Lira, E.; Jiménez Martínez, J. (2009) ‘El movimiento de mujeres y la lucha por sus derechos en Nicaragua: Estudio de caso’. Informe Final de Investigación. Mimeo, CINCO-MAM.
- Cuadra Lira, E.; Jiménez Martínez, J. (2010) El movimiento de mujeres y la lucha por sus derechos en Nicaragua: Movimientos sociales y ciudadanía en Centroamérica. Julio. Managua: CINCO.
- Cuadra Lira, E.; Jiménez Martínez, J. (2010) 'Social movements and Citizenship in Central America: the women’s movement and the struggle for their rights 1998-2008. Research summary'. July. Managua: CINCO.
- Merino, L. et al. (2009) ‘Movimientos sociales frente al Tratado de Libre Comercio entre Centroamérica y los Estados Unidos: La Experiencia de Costa Rica’. Informe Final de Investigación. San José, December.
- Salas et al., M. (2010) The social movement against CAFTA in Costa Rica: An overview of the social stakeholders. San José, Sula Batsu.
South Africa
- Handmaker, Jeff; Berkhout, Remko (eds.) (2010) Mobilising Social Justice in South Africa: Perspectives from Researchers and Practitioners. Pretoria: Pretoria University Law Press
The Power of Civil Society Working Paper Series
- Engel, H. (2010) ’Seizing and Stretching Participatory Space, Civil Society Engagement in Tanzania’s Policy Processes’. The Power of Civil Society Working Paper Series, No. 1. The Hague: Hivos-ISS.
- Davidson, Rebecca (2010) ‘Framing and claiming reproductive rights: a case study of civil society actors in Tanzania’. The Power of Civil Society Working Paper Series, No. 2. The Hague: Hivos-ISS.
- Kemp, Caroline (2010) ‘Claims to success: advocacy for the protocol on the rights of women in Africa: solidarity for African’s women’s rights and the use of information and communication technologies’. The Power of Civil Society Working Paper Series, No. 3. The Hague: Hivos-ISS.
- Wallis, B. (2010) ‘Localised voices in the globalised Amazon: challenges of civil society building in Ecuador’. The Power of Civil Society Working Paper Series, No. 4. The Hague: Hivos-ISS.
- Kruk, Katherin (2010) Rights, Politics and Power: The Struggle over the 2006 Abortion Reform and the Women’s Movement in Nicaragua. The Power of Civil Society Working Paper Series, No. 5. The Hague: Hivos-ISS.
- Alluri, Rina M. (2010) ‘Contesting the Role of Social Movements in Post-Apartheid South Africa: The Treatment Action Campaign'. The Power of Civil Society Working Paper Series, No. 6. The Hague: Hivos-ISS.
- Cooper, Meghan (2010) ‘Citizenship in Social Movements: Constructing Alternatives in the Anti-Privatization Forum, South Africa'. The Power of Civil Society Working Paper Series, No. 7. The Hague: Hivos-ISS.
- Brouwers, Ria (2011) 'When Civics Go Governance: on the role and relevance of civic organisations in Sub-Saharan Africa' The Power of Civil Society Working Paper Series No. 9. The Hague: Hivos-ISS.
Civic driven change
Policy Briefs
Policy briefs have been written on several aspects of CDC. Click on a policy to download the document.
- Policy Brief No. 1 (Alan Fowler and Kees Biekart) 'Introducing Civic Driven Change'
- Policy Brief No. 2 (Alan Fowler and Kees Biekart) 'Civic Driven Change and Aided Development'
- Policy Brief No. 3 (Harry C. Boyte) 'Civic Driven Change: Organizing Civic Action'
- Policy Brief No. 4 (Shirin M. Rai) 'Civic Driven Change: Facing Risk'
- Policy Brief No. 5 (Peter Konijn and Allert van den Ham) 'Civic Driven Change: A new Impetus to the Debate?'
Essays
Essay 1 Civic-Driven Change: Citizen's Imagination in Action, Alan Fowler and Kees Biekart This essay introduces important concepts and provides the reader with information about the motivations, methods and substantive content of this volume. It concludes with an overview of what civic driven change mean from the perspective of the authors and details areas where important differences of view were identified.
Essay 2 Civic Driven Change and Political Projects, Evelina Dagnino Civic driven change requires clarity about the meaning of terms. Experiences from Brazil detailed in this essay illustrate how the same language can hide contrary understandings and interpretations that stem from different political projects that drive society. The critical appraisal of words and their use sets a guide for other essays.
Essay 3 Civic Driven Change: Spirituality, Religion and Faith, Philomena Mwaura Values are a significant feature of civic driven change. This essay explores the role of religion in shaping the moral norms that guide people’s behaviour towards citizenship, politics and authority. With Kenya as an example, the notion of a rigorous divide between secular and spiritual groundings of civic agency is questioned.
Essay 4 Six Degrees and Butterflies: Communication, Citizenship and Change, Alfonso Gumucio Dagron Information, communication and the mass media often exert a significant influence on how citizenship and civic agency are appreciated and driven. With illustrations from Latin America the essay looks at these influences between development and transformative change and highlights a missing component of accountability. A strong argument is made for monitoring the communications strategy and content of aid agencies.
Essay 5 Civic Driven Change: Of the Law and the role of Outsiders, Nilda Bullain Outsiders promote civic driven change in ways that implicitly assume and try to create a preferred relationship between personal and public rights and responsibilities. Drawing on cases from Hungary, this essay critically debates the role of external agencies and their political projects in defining and steering civic agency in other countries.
Essay 6 Civic Driven Change – Opportunities and Costs, Shirin Rai With a graphic case of gender empowerment from India, this essay focuses attention on the way in which the opportunities for and risks of civic agency can be (mal) distributed across development actors. It shows the assessment of risk as a critical but oft ignored feature of donor thinking and practice with consequences that run counter to the social justice agendas they espouse.
Essay 7 Civic Driven Change and Developmental Democracy, Harry Boyte Examples, mainly from the United States, show that public work can be an effective and practical way of expanding civic agency and engaging with political systems. Theses experiences are applied to defining and pursuing forms of democracy that are ‘developmental’ in that they build citizen capability to act against creeping technocracy and party-based politics that disempower.
Essay 8 Civic Driven Change for Deepening Democracy, Rajesh Tandon Within the context of Asia, this essay tackles the prevention and erosion of democratic practices, abetted by mass media which portrays civic agency as a negative force for social justice. Attention focuses on the commercialisation of the public sphere and roots of political culture that endorse authoritarian leadership. The author describes strategies, methods and experiences that deepen democracy beyond confinement by electoral politics.
Essay 9 Global Civic-Driven Democratization as Political Agency - Teivo Teivainen What happens when organisations within civil society ally transnationally with agendas that counter prevailing global political projects? Explanation of debates and struggles within the World Social Forum provides valuable insights and lessons about pursuing democratic processes of reform for global social justice.
Essay 10 Civic Driven Change: Implications for Aided Development, Alan Fowler and Kees Biekart This essay summarizes the features of civic driven change emerging from the essays that could give value to the being and doing of private aid agencies. It then focuses on the ‘Monday morning’ question of steps that agencies can take to consider adopting a CDC discourse and approach and types of measures that would help with strategy and practical implementation.
CDC Workshop Report 15 October 2008 A collection of discussions, debates and conclusions made at the Civic Driven Change Initiative Workshop held on October 15, 2008.
Biekart, Kees, and Fowler, Alan (2009) Civic driven Change: A Concise Guide to the Basics. The Hague: International Institute of Social Studies. The Broker Online discussion on CDC
