Civil Society Theory and Euro-Nationalism
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چکیده
Theorisation and debate have been going on around the concept of civil society literally for centuries and ‘civil society theory’ could be understood as an umbrella term for the body of theorisation which has emerged. However, the term is used here in a more restricted sense to refer to the contemporary production of an ideological discourse through which academic theory is recycled as the political rhetoric of banal state nationalism.1 It is not being suggested that all theorists working with the concept of civil society fit the category. ‘Civil society theory’ is partly the result of the relationship between academia and the construction of political discourse, within the context of increasing media influence. The reception of academic debate within this recycling process introduces and obscures assumptions about values and methodology, which more rigorous academic theorisation should at least make explicit.
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