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This book explores how philanthropy is perceived and practiced in a predominantly Muslim society. It is the first academic quantification of philanthropic giving and volunteering using a representative sample of the Egyptian population, providing the reader with a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the state of philanthropy in Egypt. The book discusses traditional and religious philanthropic mechanisms and provides a thorough explanation of the waqf system, how it is perceived today, and how it could support innovation. Furthermore, as a solid direct product of the research embodied in the creation of a community foundation, it discusses reviving and modernizing the concept of waqf, thus elaborating an example of how academic studies may be employed to create proto-types for learning and calculated action.
For some years, we have observed a broad public discussion over the shrinking civic space. While the focus has generally been on countries with authoritarian governance systems, it has more recently become apparent that the issue is neither restricted to these countries nor indeed to countries with weak or non-existing democracies. It has been demonstrated that the space in which civil society actors and individual citizens may contribute to public affairs is undergoing fundamental changes in Europe. While in some areas, the clout of civic initiative is larger today than ever before, in others, civic action is highly disputed and governments are attempting to crowd out non-governmental actor...
Zivilgesellschaftliches Engagement formiert sich innerhalb der Zivilgesellschaft in diversen Organisationsformen, von denen einige als sektortypisch, wie beispielsweise der Verein oder die Stiftung, gelten. Der Einzug von Kapitalgesellschaften stellt eine neuere Entwicklung dar, welche mit den gemeinnützigen GmbHs begann. Seit 1997 sind parallel dazu punktuelle Neugründungen von gemeinnützigen Aktiengesellschaften (gAGs) feststellbar, welche im sozialwissenschaftlichen Diskurs bisher allerdings kaum Berücksichtigung finden. An diesem Punkt setzt die vorliegende Explorationsstudie an und folgt dabei dem Ansatz der interdisziplinären Zivilgesellschaftsforschung. Dazu wurden die gemeinnüt...
Founded by Bik van der Pol, the Dutch collaborative art duo of Liesbeth Bik (b. 1959) and Jos van der Pol (b. 1961), the School of Missing Studies started in 2003 as a collective made-up of artists and architects who recognized the missing as a matter of urgency in public space and how cultural education was so close yet so far removed from cultural production. They investigated what cultures laid the foundations for the loss that we are experiencing from modernization, and how we can learn from this loss. Their project was recreated for programming at the Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam. It also became the subject of the Sandberg Institutes first publication in this new cultural series. The School of Missing Studies is calling for a space to turn existing knowledge against itself to affect our capacity to see things otherwise, to trust that seeing, and to set our own pedagogical terms. essays by Liz Allan, Bik van der Pol, Charles esche, e. C. feiss, Laymert Garcia dos Santos, Sarah Pierce, eloise Sweetman, Paulo Tavares, and nato Thompson.
Die Reihe MAECENATA SCHRIFTEN ist eine interdisziplinäre wissenschaftliche Buchreihe zur Zivilgesellschaftsforschung. Von 2007–2015 erschien sie im Verlag Lucius & Lucius, Stuttgart; seit 2016 erscheint sie im Verlag De Gruyter Oldenbourg, Berlin. Sie wird von Rupert Graf Strachwitz, Eckhard Priller und Siri Hummel herausgegeben. Für eine Aufnahme in die Reihe kommen Monographien und Sammelbände in Betracht, die einen thematischen Bezug zu den Themenfeldern Zivilgesellschaft, Bürgerschaftliches Engagement, Philanthropie und Stiftungswesen aufweisen. In die Reihe können Qualifikationsarbeiten ebenso aufgenommen werden wie Studien, Ergebnisse von Forschungsprojekten, Tagungsbände oder ...
Die gemeinnützige Aktiengesellschaft ist wohl die am wenigsten bekannte Rechtsform. Dabei bietet sie vielfältige Potenziale für die Umsetzung von gemeinnützigen Zwecken. Insbesondere die Aspekte Partizipation, Professionalisierung, Transparenz u
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This volume investigates the cut-up as a contemporary mode of creativity and important global model of cultural production. The term cut-up thereby serves as an open container for a long list of terms and actions that describe the combination and reassembly of existing motifs, fragments, images and ideas from diverse and disconnected origins into newly synthesized entities. Refusing any disciplinary coherence, this book assembles texts from multifarious eras and origins. At the same time, the contributors share an urgency to question the dichotomy of original creation and derivative appropriation. In this way, the book itself is a cut-up of previously published essays and articles that in their proximity allow for multiple readings to arise. It aims to translate the topic into a wider societal discourse to serve as both a source of inspiration and a platform for critical reflection. Contributors Thom Bettridge, Marcus Boon, Nicolas Bourriaud, Lars Eckstein, Rachel Falconer, Lukas Feireiss, Joerg Koch, Jonathan Lethem, Lucas Mascatello, Paul D. Miller, Eduardo Navas, Tamar Shafrir, Robert Shore, Stacey Waite, and Jan Verwoert Copublished with Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam
The exhibition ?WOW! The Heidi Horten Collection? is the first public presentation of one of the most impressive European private collections. The presentation at the Leopold Museum fulfils the collector?s long-cherished wish to make the masterpieces meticulously collected by her since the 1990s by artists from Gustav Klimt to Andy Warhol and Damien Hirst accessible to a wide audience. Featuring more than 170 works from 100 years of art history, the presentation affords individual insights into the spectrum of art and artists united by Heidi Goess-Horten under one roof. The largest groups of works are those of Expressionism and American Pop Art. On display are works by Marc Chagall, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Paul Klee, Gustav Klimt, August Macke, Franz Marc, Henri Matisse, Joan Miro, Edvard Munch, Pablo Picasso, Egon Schiele, Francis Bacon, Georg Baselitz, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Jean Dubuffet, Lucio Fontana, Lucian Freud, Damien Hirst, Alex Katz, Yves Klein, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg, Gerhard Richter, Mark Rothko, Andy Warhol and many others.00Exhibition: Leopold Museum, Vienna, Austria (16.02.-29.07.2018).