1st Edition
Global Civil Society Contested Futures
240 Pages
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Routledge
218 Pages
by
Routledge
218 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Introduction: global civil society and the future of world politics PART l Global civil society - contesting current trends 1 Global civil society: analytical category or normative concept? 2 Cosmocracy and global civil society 3 The demoralised subject of global civil society 4 The changing role of global civil society 5 Contextualising the 'anti-capitalism' movement in global civil society PART 2 Global civil society - contesting future possibilities 6 The idea of global civil society 7 Saying global civil society with rights 8 Global civil society: thinking politics and progress 9 Constructing global civil society 10 Global civil society and global governmentality: resistance, reform or resignation? 11 Global civil society as politics of faith
Biography
Gideon Baker is a lecturer in Political Theory at the University of Salford. He is the author of Civil Society and Democratic Theory: Alternative Voices (also published by Routledge). David Chandler is a senior lecturer in International Relations at The Centre for the Study of Democracy, The University of Westminster. He is the author of Constructing Global Civil Society: Morality and Power in International Relations; From Kosovo to Kabul: Human Rights and International Intervention; and Bosnia: Faking Democracy after Dayton.
