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This article reframes ongoing debates through organizational sociology to address what civil society is as an organizational form at the UN. Using the concept of “temporary organizations,” it develops a relational perspective in which civil society’s temporariness generates exclusion mechanisms, and exclusion in turn shapes temporariness. In practice, civil society actors resist exclusion by preserving autonomy.","Swiss Journal of Sociology, 49 (1), 2023, 61–81 61  \nCivil Society at the United Nations Through the Lens of Organizational Sociology: Exclusion and Temporariness  \nLeah R. Kimber*  \nAbstract: Studying the inclusion of civil society in international organizations has grown in the last decade. This article repatriates the ongoing scholarly discussions of this inclusion within organizational sociology to answer what the nature of civil society is as an organization at the United Nations. With “temporary organizations” it proposes a relational perspective whereby civil society’s temporariness induces mechanisms of exclusion and vice-versa. In practice civil society actors counter exclusion mechanisms by holding on to their autonomy. Keywords: Inclusion, exclusion, civil society, United Nations, temporary organization  \nLa société civile aux Nations Unies au prisme de la sociologie organisationnelle : exclusion et temporairité  \nRésumé : L’étude de l’inclusion de la société civile dans les organisations internationales s’estrécemment développée. Avec la sociologie des organisations, on tente de comprendre la nature de la société civile en tant qu’organisation aux Nations Unies. Avec « organisations temporaires », on propose une perspective relationnelle où la temporalité de la société civile induitdes mécanismes d’exclusion et inversement. Dans la pratique, lesdits acteurs combattent les mécanismes d’exclusion en conservant leur autonomie.  \nMots-clés: Inclusion, exclusion, société civile, Nations Unies, organisation temporaire  \nZivilgesellschaft bei den Vereinten Nationen durch die Linse der Organisations soziologie: Ausschluss und Temporarität  \nZusammenfassung: In den letzten Jahren hat sich die Forschung für die Einbeziehung der Zivilgesellschaft in internationalen Organisationen entwickelt. Mit Organisationssoziologie verstehen wir, wie die Zivilgesellschaft als Organisation in den Vereinten Nationen eingeschlossen wird. Mit «temporären Organisationen» bieten wir eine doppelte Perspektive. Die Temporarität der Zivilgesellschaft induziert Ausschlussmechanismen und umgekehrt. In der Praxis bekämpfen diese Akteure die Mechanismen der Exklusion, während sie ihre Autonomie behalten.  \nSchlüsselwörter: Inklusion, Exklusion, Zivilgesellschaft, Vereinte Nationen, temporäre Organisation  \n* Postdoctoral fellow, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), visiting scholar at Barnard College, NY, associate researcher at the University of Geneva, [Leah.Kimber@unige.ch](Leah.Kimber@unige.ch).  \nDOI 10.2478/sjs-2023-0005  \n© 2023. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercialNoDerivatives 4.0 License. (CC BY-NC-ND 4 . 0)  \n62 Leah R. Kimber  \n1 Introduction  \nIn terms of the Women’s Major Group, I wanted to say that it is more of a space than an organization. So it’s just a way to bring everyone together in terms of this process and you may or not have noticed that in the outcome document it doesn’t talk about the Major Groups at all. So, there was a resolution by the General Assembly saying that the Major Groups would be this process for, you know be a vehicle in the process through this world conference. But after that there is really no clear role for the Major Groups whatsoever. 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