Global civil society 2012: ten years of critical reflection

Global civil society 2012: ten years of critical reflection

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Activists and academics look back over ten years of 'politics from below', and ask whether it is merely the critical gaze upon the concept that has changedb or whether there is something genuinely new about the way in which civil society is now operating. MARY KALDOR Professor of Global Governance and Director of the Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), UK. She has written widely on security issues and on democracy and civil society, and is a founder and executive editor of the Global Civil Society Yearbook series. HENRIETTA MOORE William Wyse Chair of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge, UK. She is one of the leading cultural gender theorists in Social Anthropology and has developed a distinctive approach to the analysis of the interrelations of material and symbolic gender systems, embodiment and performance, and identity and sexuality. SABINE SELCHOW Researcher in the Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit at the LondonSchool of Economics and Political Science (LSE), UK. INDICE: PART I: INTRODUCTION - The Global Civil Society Yearbook: Lessons and Insights 2001-2011; 'H.Anheier, M.Kaldor '&' M.Glasius - 'Global Civil Society and the Internet: Time to Update Our Perspective; 'H.Moore' &' S.Selchow - 'PART II: DEMOCRACY AND CITIZENSHIP - The Arab Awakening: The Crisis of Dictatorship and Civil Society; 'B.Dreano - ''Lost in Transformation': The Crisis of Democracy and Civil Society; 'F.Miszlivetz - 'Passionate Publics in Mediated Civil Society; 'B.Blaagaard - 'PART III: PEACE AND JUSTICE - A Decade of theWar on Terror and the 'Responsibility to Protect'; 'M.Kaldor - 'Pro-Roma Global Civil Society: Acting For, With or Instead of Roma?; 'A.Kóczé '& 'M.Rövid -'Cluster Munitions and Civil Society: The Building Blocks of a Global Campaign; 'T.Nash - 'PART IV: ECONOMY AND SOCIETY - The Rise of the Civil Economy; 'R.Murray - 'The World Social Forum Ten Years On: Internationalisation without Institutionalisation;' G.Pleyers - 'PART V: RECORDS - Bordering on the Unknown:Approaches to Global Civil Society Data; 'S.Deel, S.Stares' &' J.Timms - 'Records;'H.Anheier - 'Chronology of Global Civil Society Events: A Yearbook Retrospective; 'J.Timms'

  • ISBN: 978-0-230-36787-6
  • Editorial: Palgrave MacM
  • Encuadernacion: Rústica
  • Páginas: 256
  • Fecha Publicación: 09/03/2012
  • Nº Volúmenes: 1
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