Main texts
*DeLue, S.M. and Dale, T.M. (2009). Political Thinking, Political Theory and Civil Society. New York: Pearson/Longman.
*Alexander. J. and Saden, L.C. (2006). The Civil Sphere. NewYork: Oxford University Press.
Supplementary texts
*Carver, T. and Bartelson, J. (2011). Globality, Democracy and Civil Society. New York: Routledge.
*Burawoy, M. (2003). “For a Sociological Marxism: the Complementary Convergence of Antonio Gramsci and Karl Polanyi”. Politics and Society, 31(2), 193-261. (a book length article) *McLaren, D. and Agyeman, J. (2015). Sharing Cities: a Case for Truly Smart and Sustainable Cities. Boston: MIT Press.


Week 1. Civil Society: legacies from the enlightenment
*Alexander. J. and Saden, L.C. (2006). The Civil Sphere. NewYork: Oxford University Press. (Part I)
*Carver, T. and Bartelson, J. (2011) Globality, Democracy and Civil Society. New York : Routledge. (Chapter 1)
Fine, R. and Rai, S. (2014). Civil Society: Democratic Perspectives. London: Routledge. (Chapter 1 and 2)
Case study: Fight Club


Module I: Turn of the century
Week 2. Civil Society: turn of the century
*Carver, T. and Bartelson, J. (2011). Globality, Democracy and Civil Society. New York: Routledge. (Chapter 3 and 5)
Berman S. (1997). “Civil Society and the Collapse of the Weimar Republic”. World Politics, 49 (3), 401-429.
Berman S. (2009). “Reintegrating the study of civil society and the state”. In Barany, Z. and Moser, R.G. Eds. Is Democracy Exportable? Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Page 37- 56)
Case study: the Weimar debate
Week 3. Karl Polanyi: market economy and the birth of society

*Burawoy, M. (2003). “For a Sociological Marxism: the Complementary Convergence of Antonio Gramsci and Karl Polanyi”. Politics and Society, 31(2), 197-223.
*Polanyi, K. (1944/2001). The Great Transformation. Boston: Beacon Press. (Chapter 11 and 14) *Dale, G. (2010). Karl Polanyi: The Limits of the Market. Cambridge: Polity. (Chapter 2, page 58+)
Case study: cooperatives
Week 4. Antonio Gramsci: hegemony and the re-birth of an idea
*Burawoy, M. (2003). “For a Sociological Marxism: the Complementary Convergence of Antonio Gramsci and Karl Polanyi”. Politics and Society, 31(2), page 214-231.
Gramsci, A. (1971). Selections from the Prison Notebooks. London: Lawrence & Wishart. (Page 481-503)
*Wright, E.O. (2010). Envisioning Real Utopias. London and New York: Verso. (Chapter 8 and 10, page 195+)
Case study: Oxfams

Module II: Middle of the century
Week 5. Pierre Bourdieu: cultural capital and the post-industrial society

*Bourdieu P. (1996). On Television. NewYork: New Press. (Page 68-78)
*Bourdieu P. (1988). Homo Academicus. Cambridge: Polity Press. (Page 162-180)
Burawoy M. (2008). “Durable domination: Gramsci meets Bourdieu”. Retrieved from http://burawoy.berkeley.edu
*Swartz D. (1997) Culture and Power: the Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Chapter 6 and 9)
Case study: universities
Week 6. Michel Foucault: governmentality and the death of society
*Foucault, M. (2007). Security, Territory, Population: Lectures at the College de France, 1977-78. London: Palgrave Macmillan. (Page 126-161)
Huxley, M. (2008). “Space and Government: Governmentality and Geography”. Geography Compass, 2(5), 1635–1658.
*DeLue, S.M. and Dale, T.M. (2009). Political Thinking, Political Theory and Civil Society. New York: Pearson/Longman. (Chapter 17: 357-364)
Pyykkönen, M. (2010). “Governmentalisation of Civil Society? Power, Governance and Civil Society in Gramsci’s and Foucault’s Analytics of Power”. In Freise, M. et al. Eds. A Panacea for All Seasons? Civil Society and Governance in Europe. Baden-Baden: Nomos. (Page 25-42) *Alexander. J. and Saden, L.C. (2006). The Civil Sphere. NewYork: Oxford University Press. (Chapter 15-17)
Case study: professionals

Week 7. Hannah Arendt: republican ideal and the public space
*Arendt, H. (1958). The Human Condition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Part II) Benhabib, S. (1997). “The Embattled Public Sphere: Hannah Arendt, Juergen Habermas and Beyond”. Journal of Social and Political Theory, 90, 1-24.
Ferree, M., Gamson, W., Gerhards, J. and Rucht, D. (2002). “Four models of the public sphere in modern democracies”. Theory and Society, 31, 289-324.
Sennett, R. (not dated). “The Public Realm”. Retrieved from: http://www.richardsennett.com

Case study: public spaces

Module III: Geo-spatial perspectives
Week 8. Jane Jacobs: complexity and the city spaces

*Jacobs, J. (1960). The Death and Life of Great American Cities. London: Vintage. (Chapter 6 and 22)
Hirt, S. and Zahm, D. (eds) (2012). The Urban Wisdom of Jane Jacobs. New York: Routledge. (Chapter 2, 5 and 17)
*Barnett, C. and Low, M. (2004). Spaces of Democracy: Geographical Perspectives on Citizenship, Participation and Representation. London: Sage. (Chapter 6-7)
*Carver, T. and Bartelson, J. (2011). Globality, Democracy and Civil Society. New York: Routledge. (Chapter 12)
Case study: marketplaces
Week 9. Elinor Ostrom: governance and the urban commons
*Ostrom, E. (1990). Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Chapter 1-2)
Levine, P. (2011). “Seeing Like a Citizen: The Contributions of Elinor Ostrom to ‘Civic Studies’”. The Good Society, 20(1), 3-14.
*McLaren, D. and Agyeman, J. (2015). Sharing Cities: a Case for Truly Smart and Sustainable Cities. Boston: MIT Press. (Chapter 2 and 3)

Gerbaudo, P. (2018). The Digital Party: Political Organisation and Online Democracy. London : Pluto Press.
Case study: The Link