[WSMDiscuss] ‘Break Free ! Engaging Critically with the Concept and Reality of Civil Society' now available online

[Jai Sen]

Tuesday, April 9, 2019

 

Greetings, all

            At the risk of some more self-promotion, some on this list might be interested to know that an essay that I've been working on for many years – building on earlier work -, and that finally came out in a book last year (2018), is now available online, as below.

            Jai



Jai Sen, 2018b - ‘Break Free ! Engaging Critically with the Concept and Reality of Civil Society (Part 1)’, in Jai Sen, ed, 2018 – The Movements of Movements, Part 2 : Rethinking Our Dance (New Delhi : OpenWord and Oakland, CA : PM Press), pp 65-113.  

Now also available at https://www.academia.edu/38657297/Break_Free_Engaging_Critically_with_the_Concept_and_Reality_of_Civil_Society_Part_1_ <https://www.academia.edu/38657297/Break_Free_Engaging_Critically_with_the_Concept_and_Reality_of_Civil_Society_Part_1_> (accessed js on 29.03.2019)

Jai Sen, 2018c - ‘Break Free ! Engaging Critically with the Concept and Reality of Civil Society (Part 2)’, in Jai Sen, ed, 2018 – The Movements of Movements, Part 2 : Rethinking Our Dance (New Delhi : OpenWord and Oakland, CA : PM Press), pp 317-363. 

Now also available at https://www.academia.edu/38657324/Break_Free_Engaging_Critically_with_the_Concept_and_Reality_of_Civil_Society_Part_2_ <https://www.academia.edu/38657324/Break_Free_Engaging_Critically_with_the_Concept_and_Reality_of_Civil_Society_Part_2_> (accessed js on 29.03.2019)

The blurb for Part 1 :

This post (which is Part 1 of a two-part essay) hopes to speak to people everywhere who are struggling for - or who are concerned about - justice, peace, and social transformation.  But in particular, it hopes to speak both to people who see themselves as belonging to what is called ‘civil society’ and also to those who feel they are excluded from so-called ‘civil society’.  Among other things, it attempts to critically interrogate the concept and reality of this term, and urges careful, critical thought about what this now very everyday term (and terms that lie behind it, such as ‘civility’ and ‘being civil’) actually means; and what it therefore means – in a deeper sense – to identify oneself as being ‘civil’.  Suggesting that these are skilfully constructed ideological terms for the exercise of hegemonic social and political control in all arenas of social life, it argues that they have profoundly contradictory meanings and a deeply problematic history – and contemporary reality; and it discusses other ways to look at the world and to act on it, through other lenses, other cracks; including by proposing the dialectically related categories of the ‘incivil’ and the ‘uncivil’.  In particular, it argues that to achieve all our full creative powers - which we need today at the world-historical juncture we live in more than ever before - we need to break free of the hold of so-called ‘civility’. 

The full essay, published in two parts in 2018 (in Jai Sen, ed, 2018 – The Movements of Movements, Part 2 : Rethinking Our Dance (New Delhi : OpenWord and Oakland, CA : PM Press), is also posted here in two parts, Part 1 and Part 2.



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Jai Sen

Independent researcher, editor

jai.sen at cacim.net <mailto:jai.sen at cacim.net>
Now based in New Delhi, India (+91-98189 11325) and in Ottawa, Canada, on unceded Anishinaabe territory (+1-613-282 2900) 

Current associations : www.cacim.net <http://www.cacim.net/> / http://www.openword.net.in

CURRENT / RECENT publications :

Jai Sen, ed, 2018a – The Movements of Movements, Part 2 : Rethinking Our Dance. Ebook and hard copy available at PM Press <http://www.pmpress.org/>
Jai Sen, ed, 2018b – The Movements of Movements, Part 1 : What Makes Us Move ?, Indian edition. New Delhi : AuthorsUpfront, in collaboration with OpenWord and PM Press.  Hard copy available at MOM1AmazonIN <https://www.amazon.in/dp/9387280101/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1522884070&sr=8-2&keywords=movements+of+movements+jai+sen>, MOM1Flipkart <https://www.flipkart.com/the-movements-of-movements/p/itmf3zg7h79ecpgj?pid=9789387280106&lid=LSTBOK9789387280106NBA1CH&marketplace=FLIPKART&srno=s_1_1&otracker=search&fm=SEARCH&iid=ff35b702-e6a8-4423-b014-16c84f6f0092.9789387280106.SEARCH&ppt=Search%20Page>, and MOM1AUpFront <http://www.authorsupfront.com/movements.htm>
Jai Sen, ed, 2017 – The Movements of Movements, Part 1 : What Makes Us Move ?.  New Delhi : OpenWord and Oakland, CA : PM Press.  Ebook and hard copy available at PM Press <http://www.pmpress.org/>
Jai Sen, ed, 2016a  – The Movements of Movements, Part 1 : What Makes Us Move ? and Jai Sen, ed, 2016b – The Movements of Movements, Part 2 : Rethinking Our Dance (both then forthcoming from New Delhi : OpenWord and Oakland, CA : PM Press), open access ADVANCE PREFINAL ONLINE MOVEMENT EDITIONS @ www.cacim.net <http://www.cacim.net/>
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