@inbook{da3a76713455479b92b0be642dbd9c37,
title = "Interrogating Civic Space: Applying a Civic-Driven Change Perspective",
abstract = "Throughout the world, we recognise a tendency for civic space to be limited by governments and private sector actors. A common reason is to reduce the advocacy pressure of civil society groups on their interests. But the issue seems to be more complex than just a tendency of {\textquoteleft}shrinking civic space{\textquoteright} which is undermining development. We see the influence of historical latency on civic agency and actors within socio-political processes, contributing to a renaissance of nationalisms as being a key problem. The question arises how civic agency is deployed to counteract these initiatives, and how latent civic resistance is being mobilised. A framework of civic-driven change is applied to analyse the political potential of these forces, and in this way also to {\textquoteleft}interrogate{\textquoteright} civic space. Is this really a useful tool for analysing opportunities for social resistance, or is it rather a way to depoliticise civil society discourse?",
author = "Kees Biekart and Alan Fowler",
note = "{\textcopyright} The Author(s) 2023",
year = "2023",
month = may,
day = "25",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-031-23305-0_2",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-3-031-23304-3",
series = "EADI Global Development Series",
pages = "27--48",
editor = "Kees Biekart and Tiina Kontinen and Marianne Millstein",
booktitle = "Civil Society Responses to Changing Civic Spaces",
publisher = "Palgrave Macmillan",
address = "United Kingdom",
edition = "1",
}