Global Civil Society 2012 Ten Years of Critical Reflection

by Kaldor, Mary; Moore, Henrietta L.; Selchow, Sabine

• ISBN13: 9780230367876
• ISBN10: 0230367879
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-05-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

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 changed or whether there is something genuinely new about the way in which civil society is now operating.

Author Biography

Mary Kaldor is 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 L. Moore is William Wyse Chair of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge, UK. She has worked extensively on Africa, and on globalisation, new technologies and virtual worlds. Her new book, Still Life: Hopes, Desires and Satisfactions, argues for a reconsideration of globalisation based on ordinary people's capacities for self-making and social transformation. Sabine Selchow is a researcher in the Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), UK.

Table of Contents

List of Boxes, Maps, Figures and Tables	p. vii
Acknowledgements	p. ix
Notes on Contributors	p. x
Poem	p. xiii
Preface	p. xiv
Looking Back, Thinking Forward
The Global Civil Society Yearbook: Lessons and Insights 2001-2011	p. 2
'Global Civil Society' and the Internet 2012: Time to Update Our Perspective	p. 28
Democracy and Citizenship
The Arab Awakening: The Crisis of Dictatorship and Civil Society	p. 42
'Lost in Transformation': The Crisis of Democracy and Civil Society	p. 54
Passionate Publics in Mediated Civil Society	p. 72
Peace and Justice
A Decade of the War on Terror and 'Responsibility to Protect'	p. 88
Pro-Roma Global Civil Society: Acting For, With or Instead of Roma?	p. 110
Civil Society and Cluster Munitions: Building Blocks of a Global Campaign	p. 124
Economy and Society
Global Civil Society and the Rise of the Civil Economy	p. 144
A Decade of World Social Forums: Internationalisation without Institutionalisation?	p. 166
Records
Bordering on the Unknown: Approaches to Global Civil Society Data	p. 184
Chronology of Global Civil Society Events - A Yearbook Retrospective	p. 204
Index	p. 218
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