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Association: Name: ISA's 49th ANNUAL CONVENTION, BRIDGING MULTIPLE DIVIDES URL: http://www.isanet.org
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Tordjman, Simon. "Local Marginality and International Support to "Civil Society": The Paradoxical Effects of Democracy Promotion on Political Dissent (Uzbekistan, Myanmar)" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the ISA's 49th ANNUAL CONVENTION, BRIDGING MULTIPLE DIVIDES, Hilton San Francisco, SAN FRANCISCO, CA, USA, Mar 26, 2008 <Not Available>. 2008-12-11 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p251644_index.html>

Tordjman, S. , 2008-03-26 "Local Marginality and International Support to "Civil Society": The Paradoxical Effects of Democracy Promotion on Political Dissent (Uzbekistan, Myanmar)" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the ISA's 49th ANNUAL CONVENTION, BRIDGING MULTIPLE DIVIDES, Hilton San Francisco, SAN FRANCISCO, CA, USA Online <PDF>. 2008-12-11 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p251644_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: Since the end of the Cold War, democracy promotion and protection of human rights have constituted the core of the European and the American foreign policies’ discourses. Considering the deadlocks of an approach based on inter-State relations (top-down), international donors have progressively positioned their strategies and programs of democratization towards a more bottom-up method: their goal is less to impose democracy than to favor a social hybridizing of democratic norms and procedures. This approach consists in articulating three dimensions of the concept of “civil society”: an analytical notion, a practical tool and normative contents. By institutionalizing the concept of civil society, the bottom-up approach aims at building real civil societies and consequently takes part in a substantial reconfiguration of actors in the sociopolitical field.In Uzbekistan and Myanmar, the turn from a “transition paradigm” to a “civil society formula” is not only a change of scale. Beyond the role that they can play in the process of democratization, Civil Society Organizations constitute a particular social background, which has to be analyzed as such: Who are their members? What are their motivations? What effects does the external intervention in Uzbekistan and Myanmar produce on the social field, on the repertories of collective action and on the expression of political dissent? This paper aims at analyzing the process and the implications of international support to marginalized political activists in autocratic regimes. There, marginality is not only a consequence of the repressive measures taken by the local authorities, but also the side-effect of the elitist aspect of the international support to civil society. But, paradoxically, marginality and its social uses appear at the same time as major elements for political action and democratic invention. Consequently, founding a social analysis of the bottom-up approach of democracy promotion requires multiplying points of view on the social practices of “civil society”: actors “inside” this category, allied or antagonistic actors of “real civil societies” and external promoters of democratization through the “civil society formula”.

Grafting participatory governance onto representative democracy and existing state institutions: Explaining outcomes via political society and civil society lenses

Civil Society in Political Democratization: Social Movement Impacts and Institutional Politics