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050			_aJQ 1416 _b.H359 2006
100			_aHedman, Eva-Lotta Elisabet. _941964
245		0	_aIn the name of civil society : _bfrom free election movements to people power in the Philippines / _cEva-Lotta E. Hedman.
264			_aQuezon City : _bAteneo de Manila University Press, _c©2006.
300			_axiv, 268 pages : _billustrations ; _c23 cm.
336			_atext _2rdacontent
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
500			_aRevision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Cornell University, 1998.
520			_aWhat is the politics of civil society? Focusing on the Philippines - home to the mother of all election-watch movements, the original People Power revolt, and one of the largest and most diverse NGO populations in the world - Eva-Lotta Hedman offers a critique that goes against the grain of much other current scholarship. Her highly original work challenges celebratory and universalist accounts that tend to reify "civil society" as a unified and coherent entity, and to ascribe a single meaning and automatic trajectory to its role in democratization. She shows how mobilization in the name of civil society is contingent on the intercession of citizens and performative displays of citizenship - as opposed to other appeals and articulations of identity, such as class. In short, Hedman argues, the very definitions of "civil" and "society" are at stake. Based on extensive research spanning the course of a decade (1991-2001), this study offers a powerful analysis of Philippine politics and society inspired by the writings of Antonio Gramsci. It draws on a rich collection of sources from archives, interviews, newspapers, and participant-observation. It identifies a cycle of recurring "crises of authority," involving mounting threats - from above and below - to oligarchical democracy in the Philippines. Tracing the trajectory of a Gramscian "dominant bloc" of social forces, Hedman shows how each such crisis in the Philippines promotes a countermobilization by the "intellectuals" of the dominant bloc: the capitalist class, the Catholic Church, and the U.S. government. In documenting the capacity of so-called "secondary associations" (business, lay, professional) to project moral and intellectual leadership in each of these crises, this study sheds new light on the forces and dynamics of change and continuity in Philippine politics and society. (Source: http://www.amazon.com)
650			_aCivil society _zPhilippines. _2sears _989149
650			_aPolitical culture _zPhilippines. _2sears _923860
650			_aPolitical participation _zPhilippines. _2sears _923857
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