ISBN:
9780415698627
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (193 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Rethinking Globalizations
Parallel Title:
Print version Global Civil Society and Transversal Hegemony : The Globalization-Contestation Nexus
DDC:
303.48/2
Keywords:
POLITICAL SCIENCE / General
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
There has been clear recognition of tendencies towards uncritically celebrating resistance and the need for critical appraisal within the literature on globalization and contestation.This book provides a conceptual history of global civil society and a critical examination of the politics of resistance in the global political economy. It uses a dialectical method of analysis to illustrate the conceptual stasis of mainstream approaches to questions of globalization and contestation, while demonstrating the potential of a Gramscian approach to reconstitute hegemony as a key anal
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; 1. Introduction: globalization and contestation; The global political economy of resistance; Gramscian civil society and hegemony; The politics of knowledge construction; Chapter outline; Notes; 2. The dialectics of concept and reality; The politics of power and resistance; Philosophy and praxis; Neo-Polanyian optimism of the will; The dialectics of concept and reality; Towards global civil society and transversal hegemony; Notes; 3. The making of global civil society
Description / Table of Contents:
Global inaccessibilityAccumulations of meanings; Global civil society and alter-globalization; A global public sphere; Hopeful and critical voices; Global accessibility; Conclusions; Notes; 4. Global governance: : constituting global civil society; Modes of social relation; Contesting global governance; Lacunas in contesting global governance; Conclusions; Notes; 5. Dialectics of presence' at the World Social Forum; Global convergence at the World Social Forum; The Porto Alegre consensus; The World Social Forum in 2012; Creative dislocation: where global civil society meets world ordering
Description / Table of Contents:
Conceptualizing global civil society at the site of the forumConvergence and strategy; Conclusions; Notes; 6. Situating contestation at the World People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth; The People's Agreement: articulation of alternatives through Mother Earth; The World People's Conference on Climate Change (WPCCC): situating alternatives; Spaces and movements of global contestation: World Social Forums and the World People's Conference on Climate Change; Conclusions: global symbols, metaphors and resistance; Notes; 7. Transversal hegemony
Description / Table of Contents:
The nature of critique: voluntarism and mechanical categories of researchTransversal hegemony: dialogue and knowledge; Crossovers: power and global civil society; Hegemony, tactics and strategy; Place and positionality; Conclusions; Notes; 8. Conclusions: global civil society and the global political imagination; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Permalink
