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Civil Society: Between Concepts and Empirical Grounds Examining the historical and social trajectories involved in the continuous development of civil society, this volume reveals the contextual nature of the process. Through empirical studies focusing primarily on Denmark and cov ering the period from 1849 to the present day, it analyses the manner in which civil society has been practised and transformed over time. Presenting a new theoretical framework informed by a relational and processual perspective, the book sheds new light on familiar questions pertaining to civil society, the production of its boundaries and spaces of action, and the means by which these spaces can become causal factors. A fresh intervention in the study of a concept that has been central in defining ideas of solidarity and the common good, and to which researchers and politicians look for solutions to the great challenges of our time, Civil Society: Between Concepts and Empirical Grounds will appeal to scholars of sociology, politics, history and philosophy with interests in civil society. Liv Egholm is Associate Professor in the Department of Management, Politics & Philosophy at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. Lars Bo Kaspersen is Professor in the Department of Management, Politics & Philosophy at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. He is the co-editor of Does War Make States? Investigations of Charles Tilly's Historical Sociology and the author of Anthony Giddens: An Introduction to a Social Theorist. 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Michael Ryan For more information about this series, please visit: https://www.routledge. com/Routledge-Advances-in-Sociology/book-series/SE0511 Civil Society: Between Concepts and Empirical Grounds Edited by Liv Egholm and Lars Bo Kaspersen First published 2021 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN and by Routledge 52 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2021 selection and editorial matter, Liv Egholm and Lars Bo Kaspersen; individual chapters, the contributors The right of Liv Egholm and Lars Bo Kaspersen to be identified as the authors of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Egholm, Liv, 1970-editor. | Kaspersen, Lars Bo, editor. Title: Civil society : between concepts and empirical grounds / edited by Liv Egholm and Lars Bo Kaspersen. Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021. | Series: Routledge advances in sociology | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2020027833 (print) | LCCN 2020027834 (ebook) | ISBN 9780367340957 (hardback) | ISBN 9780429323881 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Civil society–History. | Civil society–Denmark–History. Classification: LCC JC337 .C58 2021 (print) | LCC JC337 (ebook) | DDC 300–dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020027833 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020027834 ISBN: 978-0-367-34095-7 (hbk) ISBN: 978-0-429-32388-1 (ebk) Typeset in Times New Roman by Taylor & Francis Books Contents List of contributors vii Preface x PART 1 Setting the Scene 1 1 A processual-relational approach to civil society 3 LIV EGHOLM AND LARS BO KASPERSEN 2 The modern conceptual history of civil society 31 CHRISTIANE MOSSIN 3 The “long history” of civil society in Denmark and Western Europe: Civil society – in the shadow of the state (eighteenth to the twenty-first century) 48 LARS BO KASPERSEN AND ANDERS SEVELSTED 4 Different states, different shadows: The particular exceptionalism of civil society in the United States 70 ELISABETH S. CLEMENS PART 2 The Emergence of the Danish Civil Society 81 5 Civil society and the civilizing mission 83 MAJ GRASTEN 6 Christianity, state, and voluntarism: Protestant processes of privatization and deprivatization 98 ANDERS SEVELSTED 7 Philanthropy as the co-creator of the welfare state 112 LIV EGHOLM vi Contents 8 Past and present futures of democracy: The Danish peasants’ movement as democracy instigator and cultural mythologizer 128 CHRISTIANE MOSSIN 9 Eclipsed by the welfare state: Understanding the rise and decline of the Danish Workers’ Cooperation, 1871–2000 145 ANDREAS MØLLER MULVAD AND BUE RÜBNER HANSEN 10 Civil society in the shadow of the Danish welfare state 159 MATHIAS HEIN JESSEN 11 Civic action as temporal process-in-relations: Towards an events-based approach 172 DIMITRA MAKRI ANDERSEN PART 3 Epilogue 187 12 Epilogue: Civil society as process and valuation 189 FRANK ADLOFF Index 202 Contributors Frank Adloff is a professor of sociology at the University of Hamburg and the co-director of the Humanities Centre for Advanced Studies “Futures of Sustainability”. His research focuses on gift giving, conviviality, civil society and sustainability. His latest publications include Gifts of Coopera tion, Mauss and Pragmatism (Routledge, 2016) and Politik der Gabe. Für ein anderes Zusammenleben (Edition Nautilus, 2018). Dimitra Makri Andersen is a PhD Fellow at the Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy at Copenhagen Business School, affiliated to the CISTAS project. Within the frame of the CISTAS subproject ‘Civil Society and Organizational Forms’, her research examines the dynamics of cross- sector partnerships between Danish NGOs and businesses, focusing in particular on issues pertaining to time and temporality. Dimitra holds a BA in Business Administration and Sociology and an M.Sc. in Strategy, Organization and Leadership, both from Copenhagen Business School. She has in the past held different positions as a trade union leader and politician (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dimitramakriandersen/). Elisabeth S. Clemens is William Rainey Harper Distinguished Service Pro fessor of Sociology at the University of Chicago and the current editor of the American Journal of Sociology. Her research explores the role of social movements and organizational innovation in political change. Her books and edited volumes include The People's Lobby (Chicago, 1997) and Poli tics and Partnerships: Voluntary Associations in America’s Past and Present (Chicago, 2010). Most recently, Civic Gifts: Voluntarism and the Making of the American Nation-State (Chicago, 2020), traces the tense but powerful entanglements of benevolence and liberalism in American political development. Maj Grasten is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy, Copenhagen Business School. Her research sits at the intersection of Socio-Legal Studies and Global Governance, with par ticular focus on international organizations and legal bodies, experts and knowledge production in international law, and the legal foundations of viii List of contributors markets. Among her latest publications is the edited book The Politics of Translation in International Relations (Palgrave, 2020). Liv Egholm is PhD in history, anthropology and semiotics and an associate professor at Copenhagen Business School, co-PI of the research program CISTAS, director of CBS’s Centre for Civil Society Studies (CfC) and the co-organizer of the EGOS SWG on Organizing in and Through Civil Society: Perspectives, Issues, Challenges. Her areas of research draw on pragmatism, cultural history and conceptual analysis to study notions and practices of “the common good”, gift-giving and the blurred lines of state, market and civil society. Among her recent publications are Civil Society Organizations: The Site of Legitimizing the Common Good (2019), Com plicated Translations (2019), Practicing Civil Society (2020), and Advancing a Post-Sectoral Conception of Civil Society (2020). Bue Rübner Hansen is an intellectual historian and sociologist, working as a postdoc at the University of Jena. His research focuses on ideas and prac tices of social reproduction, class composition and political ecology. Within that framework, he has published texts about migration, care on social media, social movements, and ecological interest formation. He has recently finished a postdoc project on the “Emergent Ideas of the Good Life in Common” funded by the Danish Council of Independent Research. Mathias Hein Jessen is Associate Professor at the Department of Manage ment, Politics and Philosophy at Copenhagen Business School. He holds a PhD in The History of Ideas from Aarhus University. He is interested in the relation between state, market and civil society, and between the state, corporations and civil society organizations. He has most recently pub lished articles in Theory, Culture & Society, Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations and International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society. Lars Bo Kaspersen (b. 1961), is currently a Professor at Copenhagen Business School, Formerly Head of the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen. He is author of, among other publications, Anthony Gid dens: An Introduction to a Social Theorist (Blackwell), Does War Make States? (co-edited with Jeppe Strandsbjerg; Cambridge University Press), and War, Survival Units, and Citizenship (Routledge forthcoming, 2020). Kaspersen’s research areas are state formation processes in Europe, the transformation of the welfare state, sociology of war, civil society (includ ing the idea of associative democracy), social theory, and in particular relational theory. He is co-director, together with Liv Egholm, of CISTAS. Christiane Mossin is a postdoctoral researcher at Copenhagen Business School. Based in continental philosophical traditions, her work explores political, legal and cultural aspects of societal transformations while building on interdisciplinary approaches in the intersection between List of contributors ix political philosophy and sociology, structural anthropology, law and legal history. Her current research is oriented towards inherited and emerging discourses and manifestations of collectivity, as well as fundamental issues of collective subjectivity, with a view to their implications for social order and change. Andreas Møller Mulvad is an anti-fraud analyst with the Danish tax autho rities, and formerly Assistant Professor at the Department of Management, Politics, and Philosophy, Copenhagen Business School. Anders Sevelsted holds a post doc position at the School of Social Work at Lund University and is an Assistant Professor at the Copenhagen Business School. Anders’ research focuses on the historical development of civil society elites, moral elites, social movements and voluntary organizations, as well as the role of ideas in the development of welfare states that he studies from a mixed methods approach through interpretive methods, Social Network Analysis, and GIS. He has further strong research interests in moral sociology, sociology of religion, elite sociology, historical sociol ogy, and the American Pragmatist tradition.
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