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Project

Reassembling civil society: Participation as a hybrid collective.
Code
3G096712
Duration
01 January 2012 → 31 December 2017
Funding
Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Research disciplines
  • Social sciences
    • Applied sociology
    • Policy and administration
    • Social psychology
    • Social stratification
    • Social theory and sociological methods
    • Sociology of life course, family and health
    • Other sociology
    • Other sociology
    • Other anthropology
Keywords
sociology civil society Actor-Network Theory Ethical consumption consumer activism
 
Project description

Recently, the classic idea of civil society seems outdated, as citizens increasingly participate in hybrid contexts that mingle roles and rationalities of civil society, state, market, and private life. To understand this new condition, this research project will develop a new conceptual framework and take an innovative methodological approach, looking at hybrid participation in a supermarket (consumer activism).