TitleGlobal civil society 2012 : ten years of critical reflection / edited by, Mary Kaldor, Henrietta L. Moore and Sabine Selechow ; Managing editor, Tasmin Murray-Leach
Imprint New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012
Descript xv, 224 p. : ill., maps, charts ; 25 cm

SUMMARY

It is a decade since the debut of the landmark Global Civil Society yearbook. During that time, as the yearbook has attempted to debate, map and measure the shifting contours of this contested phenomenon, relationships between state and society have shifted. On both sides promises have been made and broken, expectations raised and shattered, partnerships brokered and roles reversed. Moreover, from the instigation of the International Criminal Court by a coalition of NGOs to the mass protests of civilians across North Africa, the influence of non-state actors has become impossible to discount. In this anniversary edition, activists and academics look back on ten years of 'politics from below', and ask whether it is merely the critical gaze upon the concept that has changed - or whether there is something genuinely new in kind about the way in which civil society is now operating. -- From back cover


CONTENT

PART I: LOOKING BACK, THINKING FORWARD : The global civil society yearbook: lessons and insights 2001-2011 ; 'Global civil society' and the internet 2012: time to update our perspective -- PART II: DEMOCRACY AND CITIZENSHIP : The Arab awakening: the crisis of dictatorship and civil society ; 'Lost in transformation': the crisis of democracy and civil society ; Passionate publics in mediated civil society -- PART III: PEACE AND JUSTICE : A decade of the war on terror and 'responsibility to protect' ; Pro-Roma global civil society: acting for, with or instead of Roma? ; Civil society and cluster munitions: building blocks of a global campaign -- PART IV: ECONOMY AND SOCIETY : Global civil society and the rise of the civil economy ; A decade of world social forums: internationalisation without institutionalisation? -- PART V: RECORDS : Bordering on the unknown: appoaches to global civil society data


SUBJECT

  1. Civil society
  2. Civil war
  3. International relations
  4. Protests (Negotiable instruments)

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