Browsing by Subject "civil society"

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    • Building Social Capital Through Rhetoric and Public Relations 

      Maureen Taylor (Management Communication Quarterly, 2011-08-01)
      When the focus is on meaning making, language, rhetorical argument, and persuasion, there is enormous potential to see how public relations theory and practice in external organizational rhetoric can serve community ...

    • A Distant Jaguar: The Civil Society Project in Chimalapas 

      Molly Doane (Critique of Anthropology, 2001-12-01)
      Civil society has become an important unit of analysis in the context of the globalization of politics and political discourse and the decentralization of nation-states. At a discursive level, it is a concept which elides ...

    • Family Values, Social Capital and Contradictions of American Modernity 

      Philip Webb (Theory, Culture & Society, 2011-07-01)
      Contemporary American social and political discourses have integrated concerns about family values into the realm of debates about the associational life of social capital. In these discussions, theoretical and historical ...

    • Shaping Peace: NGO Engagement in Civil War Peace Processes 

      Blew, Tyra Lynn (Oklahoma State University, 2011-07-01)
      The purpose of this study was to systematically examine the impact of non-governmental (NGO) and other civil society organizations on the creation, implementation, and durability of a peace agreement following a civil war. ...