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100 1 0 _aPoncelet, Marc
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700 1 0 _a Pirotte, Gautier
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245 0 0 _aThe African Making of Civil Societies: Theoretical Denial, Imposed Concept, and Empirical Proliferation
260 _c2007.
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520 _aFor some fifteen years, the debate relating to civil society and its functions has accompanied the crisis in post-colonial African societies and the reshaping of international development policies. Historical hindsight allows us to highlight a vast debate, of a theoretical nature, on the nature of civil society and the organizations that claim to belong to it. It also casts light on the de facto proliferation of organizations supposed to constitute civil society and that are probably part of an unprecedented reshaping of social and political relations in these former colonies. This paper reviews the concept of civil society, its dimensions, and debates relating to African contexts.
690 _aInternational Cooperation
690 _aAfrica
690 _aDevelopment
690 _aNGO
690 _aCivil Society
786 0 _nMondes en développement | o 139 | 3 | 2007-10-01 | p. 9-23 | 0302-3052
856 4 1 _uhttps://shs.cairn.info/journal-mondes-en-developpement-2007-3-page-9?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080
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