In the name of civil society
Subtitle: from free election movements to people power in the Philippines
By: Eva-Lotta E. Hedman.
Series: Southeast Asia--politics, meaning, and memory; Southeast Asia--politics, meaning, memory
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Honolulu
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780824829216
Subjects: Political participation -- Philippines.; Political culture -- Philippines.; Civil society -- Philippines.; Philippines -- Politics and government -- 1946-
Description: "Based on extensive research spanning the course of a decade (1991-2001), this study offers a powerful analysis of Philippine politics and society inspired by the writings of Antonio Gramsci. It draws on a rich collection of sources from archives, interviews, newspapers, and participant-observation. It identifies a cycle of recurring "crises of authority," involving mounting threats - from above and below - to oligarchical democracy in the Philippines. Tracing the trajectory or a Gramscian "dominant bloc" of social forces, Hedman shows how each such crisis in the Philippines promotes a countermobilization by the "intellectuals" of the dominant bloc: the capitalist class, the Catholic Church, and the U.S. government."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: In the name of civil society; title: Transformism, crises of authority, and the dominant bloc in the Philippines; title: Veterans of war and civic action : NAMFREL in the 1950s; title: Bishops, businessmen, and moral leadership : CNEA and OQC in the 1960s; title: Volunteers of the nation and the empire of civil society : NAMFREL in the 1980s; title: Mapping the movement : NAMFREL 1986 in six provincial cities and towns; title: Watching the watchers : the spectacle of civil society; title: From free elections movements to people power : civil society revisited.