Global Civil Society: Contested Futures

✍ Scribed by Gideon Baker, David Chandler

Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2005
Tongue: English
Leaves: 191
Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

For many commentators, global civil society is revolutionising our approach to global politics, as new non-state-based and border-free expressions of political community challenge territorial sovereignty as the exclusive basis for political community and identity. This challenge 'from below' to the nation-state system is increasingly seen as promising nothing less than a reconstruction, or a re-imagination, of world politics itself. Whether in terms of the democratisation of the institutions of global governance, the spread of human rights across the world, or the emergence of a global citizenry in a worldwide public sphere, global civil society is understood by many to provide the agency necessary for these hoped-for transformations. Global Civil Society asks whether this idea is such a qualitatively new phenomenon after all; whether the transformation of the nation-state system is actually within its reach; and what some of the drawbacks might be.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Title......Page 6
Copyright......Page 7
Contents......Page 8
Contributors......Page 10
Introduction......Page 13
PART 1 Global civil society-contesting current trends......Page 25
1 Global civil society: analytical category or normative concept?......Page 26
2 Cosmocracy and global civil society......Page 41
3 The demoralised subject of global civil society......Page 57
4 The changing role of global civil society......Page 71
5 Contextualising the ‘anti-capitalism’ movement in global civil society......Page 84
PART 2 Global civil society-contesting future possibilities......Page 98
6 The idea of global civil society......Page 99
7 Saying global civil society with rights......Page 108
8 Global civil society: thinking politics and progress......Page 122
9 Constructing global civil society......Page 138
10 Global civil society and global governmentality: resistance, reform or resignation?......Page 157
11 Global civil society as politics of faith......Page 171
Index......Page 185

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