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John Keane is renowned globally for his creative thinking about democracy. [6] Well before the European revolutions of 1989, John Keane first came to public prominence as a theorist and defender of ‘civil society’ and the democratic opposition in central-eastern Europe.
John Keane is renowned globally for his creative thinking about democracy. Well before the European revolutions of 1989, John Keane first came to public prominence as a theorist and defender of ‘civil society’ and the democratic opposition in central-eastern Europe.
Born in southern Australia, John Keane is Professor of Politics at the University of Sydney and at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB). He is the co-founder and director of the Sydney Democracy Network (SDN).
Feb 23, 2024 · John Keane was one of the first contemporary political scientists to pay new attention to civil society as a key concept to explain social and political changes in the last two decades of the twentieth century.
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Keane is reluctant to offer a strong definition of civil society. In his own words, it is a “fragile and polysemic” concept, “object of intensive discussion and controversy” (CSS) since the second half of the eighteenth century when civil society was first considered as a realm separated from state. One of his essays traces the story of the concept...
No doubt, democracy lies under Keane’s approach to civil society as a sort of leit motifwhich not only explains civil society but stands as the necessary social environment for its existence. Democratic institutions from rules to parliaments and elected governments guarantee the freedom for a plural and tolerant civil society to exist. Democracy is...
Keane finds that civil society is prone to violence. From Hobbes to Arendt, many authors including Elias, Paine, Montesquieu, Schumpeter, and Marx have recognized the tendency and even the need for violence in different ways – some consider it as a part of the human condition, others relate it to politics, with the idea that the transformation of a...
The relation between civil society and markets is perhaps the most controversial aspect of Keane’s theory. Opposite to various purist assumptions of civil society as a realm completely separated from economy, he shows that the logics of market and civil society are closely interrelated. To consider civil society as an uncontaminated sector which ex...
Economic changes, market expansion and communication technologies lead to a new kind of civil society with a worldwide scope and network capacity. Civil society becomes global and their efforts towards peace and pluralization of power “are felt everywhere…to the planetary level itself” (GCS: 8). Keane is not referring to an organized unique network...
John Keane is co-founder of the Sydney Democracy Network (SDN) and Professor of Politics at the University of Sydney and the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB). His full-scale history...
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John Keane is Professor of Politics at the University of Sydney, Australia. He is the author of Tom Paine: a Political Life (1995), The Life and Death of Democracy (2009), Power and Humility (2018), The New Despotism (2020), and The Shortest History of Democracy (2022)—which has been published in more than a dozen languages.
