The Place of Civil Society in the Creation of Knowledge

Abstract

This interdisciplinary volume addresses the relations between civil society and knowledge from a social, institutional, and spatial perspective. As knowledge and civil society are co-constitutive (any voluntary civic agency would seem to require a minimum of knowledge and the kinds of civic agency shape the production and use of knowledge), we approach their relationship from two viewpoints: (a) what we know and how we think about the civil society shapes our action in it; (b) the particular relations between knowledge and civil society shape how knowledge in civil society becomes actionable. Adhering to the first imperative, we should carefully reflect and occasionally reconsider our assumptions about civil society. In line with the second imperative, we should carefully distinguish the ways in which civil society impacts knowledge. These range from knowledge creation, its interpretation, and its influence on societal and political discourses to its dissemination through civil society.

El movimiento de las mujeres con discapacidad ante la sociedad del conocimiento

“…Privilegia varios pilares: la diversidad cultural, el empoderamiento comunitario, el multilingüismo, conocimientos locales y autóctonos, la gobernanza de la ciencia y la tecnología, el papel de las mujeres, entre otros, para el avance de los derechos humanos y de la diversidad. Es más prometedor, con este esquema, propiciar Trabajo Social Global -Global Social Work, Vol 13 (2023), 45-65 el diálogo desde una multiplicidad de saberes y experiencias situadas, como son las que poseen las MD (Suarsana et al, 2022).…”