... that Chinese Chinese brotherhood groupings, or what they kinship organization inhibited the development coined “secret” and/or “dangerous” societies, of capitalism in China should be reconsidered. and generated much discussion on the subject in I also propose that the integration offers...

... was established of women does confer these benefits depends on the in Sri Lanka 10 years ago, and now has about 54,000 particular forms of organization undertaken. workers, 85 per cent of them women. The majority of This paper discusses a variety of forms of organiza- the women come from rural areas...

... Kelly in each respective region. In addition to these practice and organization.25 Sweden...

... development associ- an NGO (Non-governmental Organization) that started ations) as of the end of 1989, with a membership of 17.4 out as a relief and rehabilitation organization in the a€- thousand. The total number of Proshika village organi- termath of the Bangladesh liberation war of 1971. It has...

...Elizabeth Banks Abstract This article examines negotiations on aid, scholarship provision, and a hoped-for visit by former cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, that took place between the Committee for Soviet Women (KSZh) and the Organization for Mozambican Women (OMM) as a lens into Soviet-African...

... the ongoing changes affecting the organization of socioprofessional activities, that is, the emergence of journalists, lawyers, or academics as elite segments, not only did old established families use their positions to organize their reconversion at the margins of the classical administrative sphere...

... institutionalization in Islamic organizations occurred several decades later than on Java. Al-Khairaat, the major Hadhrami organization in Sulawesi, also has a different outlook than its pendants on Java, as it is not only a Hadhrami but also an expanding multiethnic institution. Moreover, while on Java Hadhramis...

...Sarah M. A. Gualtieri Gualtieri’s article explores Edward Said’s participation in the Association of Arab American University Graduates (AAUG), an organization formed in the wake of the 1967 June War and for which Said served as vice president in the early 1970s. Describing itself...

... this phenomenon and deem it an important contribution to national development and civil society and a tool for promoting citizenship rights. At a more local micro level of analysis, some concerns are raised regarding the function of the NGO, for example, as a project-driven organization with a limited, transitory...

... by organization     presenting   publications...

...Abel Majeed Hamdan Twenty years ago, religious trends were hardly visible in Palestine. Various factions of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) were all secular. This is not the case today, as the religious discourse is overwhelming and the secular one is on the retreat. This so-called...

..., these organizations are public space by discouraging and dissuad- not sufficiently autonomous to be effective. ing any e orts by citizens to organize groups Arab civil society organizations are largely con- or initiatives independent of e orts expressly...

... nature and society. The desert frontier in Egypt demonstrates that the socioecological relations that constitute industrial horticulture have necessitated transformations in farm organization and on-farm practice toward an increasingly coercive and capital-intensive set of agritechnologies and protocols...

... historical task: to envision a past and a future of social cohabitation in a present where its possibilities have been violently undermined and morally devalued. The essay centers on two instances that bookend the past century: the first was delivered in Istanbul by an organization speaking on behalf...

... in any way. Congress said as much when it passed the ban in 1996: “Foreign organizations that engage in terrorist activity are so tainted by their criminal conduct that any contribution to such an organization facilitates that conduct.” 19 Needless to say, it follows naturally...

...Figure 1. The National Organization of Sahrawi Women. Photograph by the author, 2011. ...