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Informationen zum Autor ISMET AKÇA Ph.D. candidate! Department of Political Science and International Relations! Bogaziçi! IstanbulJEFFREY AYRES Associate Professor of Political Science! Saint Michael's College! Colchester! Vermont! USAJONATHAN FOX Professor and Chair of Latin American and Latino Studies Department! University of California! USALAWRENCE HAMILTON Mellon Research Fellow! Clare Hall! Cambridge! UKJOSÉE JOHNSTON Ph.D. on food security! University of TorontoMARIE-JOSÉE MASSICOTTE Ph.D. candidate! Department of Political Science! York University! Toronto! CanadaHENRY MILNER Professor of Political Science! Vanier College! Montreal! CanadaLISA SUNDSTROM Assistant Professor of Political Science! University of British Columbia! USA Klappentext This volume critically examines the promise of a global civil society. Exploring issues in cases of diverse social justice movements! the contributors show that a global civil society is still far from emerging and its promotion may even harm the realization of grassroots democracy. The Internet is an exciting new means for activists to communicate internationally! and citizens' movements increasingly co-ordinate campaigns through transnational advocacy networks! but most effective civic action still takes place at national and local levels. Zusammenfassung This volume critically examines the promise of a global civil society. Exploring issues in cases of diverse social justice movements, the contributors show that a global civil society is still far from emerging and its promotion may even harm the realization of grassroots democracy. The Internet is an exciting new means for activists to communicate internationally, and citizens' movements increasingly co-ordinate campaigns through transnational advocacy networks, but most effective civic action still takes place at national and local levels. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Effective Resistance to Corporate Globalization; S.Halperin & G.Laxer PART 1: GLOBAL CIVIL SOCIETY: CRITIQUES Global Civil Society and International Protest: No Swan Song Yet for the State; J.Ayres The Dis-embedding and Re-embedding of Capital: Lessons From History; S.Halperin 'Civil Society': Critique and Alternative; L.Hamilton PART 2: TRANSNATIONAL ADVOCACY NETWORKS: HARBINGERS OF A GLOBAL CIVIL SOCIETY? We are all Marcos? Zapatismo! Solidarity and the Politics of Scale; J.Johnston 'Local' Organizing and 'Global' Struggles: Coalition-Building for Social Justice in the Americas; M.Massicotte Lessons From the Mexican-US Civil Society Coalitions; J.Fox Transnational Assistance to Russian NGO Development: Beneath the Apparent Construction of a Global Civil Society; L.M.Sundstrom PART 3: THE NATIONAL AS A SITE OF ANTI-GLOBALISM RESISTANCE The Defeat of the Multilateral Agreement on Investment: National Movements Confront Globalism; G.Laxer Civic Literacy in the Global Civil Society: Excluding the Majority from Democratic Participation; H.Milner 'Globalization' and Labour Strategy: Towards a Social Movement Unionism; I.Akça ...
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Introduction: Effective Resistance to Corporate Globalization; S.Halperin & G.Laxer PART 1: GLOBAL CIVIL SOCIETY: CRITIQUES Global Civil Society and International Protest: No Swan Song Yet for the State; J.Ayres The Dis-embedding and Re-embedding of Capital: Lessons From History; S.Halperin 'Civil Society': Critique and Alternative; L.Hamilton PART 2: TRANSNATIONAL ADVOCACY NETWORKS: HARBINGERS OF A GLOBAL CIVIL SOCIETY? We are all Marcos? Zapatismo, Solidarity and the Politics of Scale; J.Johnston 'Local' Organizing and 'Global' Struggles: Coalition-Building for Social Justice in the Americas; M.Massicotte Lessons From the Mexican-US Civil Society Coalitions; J.Fox Transnational Assistance to Russian NGO Development: Beneath the Apparent Construction of a Global Civil Society; L.M.Sundstrom PART 3: THE NATIONAL AS A SITE OF ANTI-GLOBALISM RESISTANCE The Defeat of the Multilateral Agreement on Investment: National Movements Confront Globalism; G.Laxer Civic Literacy in the Global Civil Society: Excluding the Majority from Democratic Participation; H.Milner 'Globalization' and Labour Strategy: Towards a Social Movement Unionism; I.Akça
