Bottom-up politics: an agency-centred approach to globalization

Bottom-up politics: an agency-centred approach to globalization

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Adopting a people-centred perspective to globalization, the authors explore complex, counterintuitive and even unintended forms and consequences of bottom-up politics, going beyond simplistic understandings of ordinary people as either victims or beneficiaries of globalization. DENISA KOSTOVICOVA Senior Lecturer in Global Politics at the Department ofGovernment at LSE and Research Fellow at LSE Global Governance, UK. Her research interests include civil society, human security and post-conflict reconstruction and state-building. She is the author of 'Kosovo: The Politics of Identity and Space'. MARLIES GLASIUS Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Her research interests include civil society, international criminal justice, human security and authoritarianrule. She is the author of 'The International Criminal Court: A Global Civil Society Achievement' and a founding editor of 'Global Civil Society'. INDICE: Introduction; 'D.Kostovicova '& 'M.Glasius - 'PART I: GLOBAL CIVILSOCIETY: AN EMERGING REALITY - Cosmopolitan Democracy: Paths and Agents; 'D.Archibugi' &' D.Held - 'The Umma: From Global Civil Society to Global Public Sphere; 'H.R.Ezzat - 'Civility and Global Civil Society: The Missing Link; 'H.K.Anheier - 'Cosmopolitan Intimacies and Sexual Politics in Global Civil Society; 'H.Seckinelgin - 'Dissident Writings: Prefiguring Global Civil Society?; 'M.Glasius - 'PART II: HUMAN SECURITY: FROM STATES TO PEOPLE - External State-building and Transnational Networks: The Limits of the Civil Society Approach; 'D.Kostovicova' &' V.Bojicic-Dzelilovic - 'A Bottom-up Approach to Redressing Past Violations of Human Rights; 'C.Chinkin '&' I.Rangelov' - The Degeneration of Cosmopolitan Wars; 'M.J.Faber - 'From Counter-force to Human Security? Experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan; 'M.Theros '&' Y.Said - 'Peace and the People: How the European Union Rewrites Security; 'G.Schmeder '& 'M.Martin - 'PART III: BOTTOM-UP GLOBALIZATION - Appropriating Normative Geopolitics: Civil Society, International Law, and the Future of the United Nations; 'R.Falk - 'Chipko and Grameen Bank: Women's Responses of Resistance and Accommodation with Capital; 'M.Desai - 'Globalization and the Study of Global Politics from Below: Preparing the Ground for an Alternative Approach; 'S.Selchow - 'Against All Odds: The Urbanizing of Human Security?; 'S.Sassen - 'Old New Wars: Global History from Below; 'E.Rothschild - 'Conclusion: Can Global Civil Society Answer the Hobbesian Problem?; 'M.Albrow - '

  • ISBN: 978-0-230-28032-8
  • Editorial: Palgrave MacM
  • Encuadernacion: Cartoné
  • Páginas: 288
  • Fecha Publicación: 25/11/2011
  • Nº Volúmenes: 1
  • Idioma: Inglés