Civil Society Sector and Political Change: An Interview with Catherine Lim

• Main Author: Lien Centre for Social Innovation
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2010
• Subjects: Nonprofit Administration and Management; Political Theory; Politics and Social Change
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lien_research/69; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lien_research/article/1045/viewcontent/Catherine_Lim___Civil_Society_Sector___Political_Change.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Singapore is a society undergoing transitions. With a burgeoning migrant community, the advent of integrated resorts with casinos and an arguably increasingly effervescent non-profit, civil society sector, Singapore looks to be a society that is rapidly opening up. Yet, as writer and political commentator Catherine Lim controversially proposes, civil society and non-profit activists cannot create change without getting their voices heard and actively participating in the political process. She shares with Social Space, her thoughts on the indispensable ingredients for openness and political engagement in a society that wants to be truly global.