Synopses & Reviews
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.
Review
"The perspective with which Kaldor and her collaborators have approached global civil society over the last decade has not only captured an essential question of our times, but has confronted issues that will only become more central to world society throughout the twenty-first century." - LSE Review of Books
About the Author
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 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
PART I: INTRODUCTION
The Global Civil Society Yearbook: Lessons and Insights 2001-2011; H.Anheier, M.Kaldor & M.GlasiusGlobal Civil Society and the Internet: Time to Update Our Perspective; H.Moore & S.SelchowPART 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.MiszlivetzPassionate Publics in Mediated Civil Society; B.BlaagaardPART III: PEACE AND JUSTICE
A Decade of the War on Terror and the 'Responsibility to Protect'; M.KaldorPro-Roma Global Civil Society: Acting For, With or Instead of Roma?; A.Kóczé and M.RövidCluster Munitions and Civil Society: The Building Blocks of a Global Campaign; T.NashPART IV: ECONOMY AND SOCIETY
The Rise of the Civil Economy; R.MurrayThe World Social Forum Ten Years On: Internationalisation without Institutionalisation; G.PleyersPART V: RECORDS
Bordering on the Unknown: Approaches to Global Civil Society Data; S.Deel, S.Stares & J.TimmsRecords;H.AnheierChronology of Global Civil Society Events: A Yearbook Retrospective; J.Timms