1st Edition
Globalizing Civic Engagement Civil Society and Transnational Action
Edited By John Clark
Copyright 2003
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
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'Informative and useful.'
Development and Change
Until recently, most civil society organizations (CSOs) operated at national or local levels. However, new global organizations and networks are increasingly emerging. This book examines what CSOs can achieve, and the barriers they face, when they break national boundaries and sectoral moulds and work with others in global networks. A series of... Read more
Preface * Introduction: Civil Society and Transnational Action * Consumers Unite Internationally * Trade Unions in a Changing World: Challenges and Opportunities of Transnationalization * Campaign to Increase Access to HIV/ARIDS Drugs * Jubilee 2000: Laying the Foundations for a Social Movement * The Age of Protest: Internet-Based 'Dot Causes' and the 'Anti-Globalization' Movement * World Social forum: Making Another world Possible? Campaign for a 'Robin Hood Tax' for Foreign Exchange Markets * Conclusions: Globalizing Civic Engagement * References and Interviews * Index
Biography
John Clark is currently Project Director of the High-Level Panel on UN-Civil Society Relations. He is also a Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics and author of Democratizing Development (1991) and Worlds Apart: Civil Society and the Battle for Ethical Globalization.
'Informative and useful.' Development and Change 'John Clark and collaborators have provided us with a lively, empirically based vue d'horizon of many of the advocacy networks and activist movements that cross borders today. Students of social movements, NGOs and practitioners will profit greatly from their book.' Mobilization 'It is well written and accessible for anyone with a general interest in efforts of citizens to come together to make global organisations, governments, and corporations more responsive to the world's most marginalised people.' Development in Practice, Feb 2004.
