ABSTRACT
Civil society is not a fixed and clearly defined concept, neither in its Euro-Atlantic cradle, nor amongst AME intellectuals. It is a disputed concept that has been and is constantly re-interpreted in a variety of ways, but with an increasingly managerial approach at the expense of the diversity of civil societies existing in the OPT. Let us now look more into detail how, when, and by whom the concept of ‘civil society’ has been ushered in, interpreted, and readapted in the arena of two sectors of Palestinian NGOs, namely that of health and advocacy NGOs.
