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Bottom-up politics An agency-centred approach to globalization /

Adopting a people-centred perspective to globalization, the authors explore complex, counterintuitive and even unintended forms and consequences of bottom-up politics, going beyond simplistic understandings of ordinary people as either victims or beneficiaries of globalization.

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Group Author: Kostovicova, Denisa.; Glasius, Marlies.
Published:
Literature type: Electronic Software eBook
Language: English
Subjects:
Political participation.
Globalization > Political aspects.
Regional studies.
Globalization.
Geopolitics.
Human rights.
Geography.
Online Access: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230357075
Summary: Adopting a people-centred perspective to globalization, the authors explore complex, counterintuitive and even unintended forms and consequences of bottom-up politics, going beyond simplistic understandings of ordinary people as either victims or beneficiaries of globalization.
Item Description: Electronic book text.
Epublication based on: 9780230280328.
Carrier Form: 296 p.
ISBN: 9780230280328
9780230357075 :
0230357075 :
CLC: D082
Contents: Introduction-- D.Kostovicova & M.Glasius PART I: GLOBAL CIVIL SOCIETY: AN EMERGING REALITY Cosmopolitan Democracy: Paths and Agents-- D.Archibugi & D.Held The Umma: From Global Civil Society to Global Public Sphere-- H.R.Ezzat Civility and Global Civil Society: The Missing Link-- H.K.Anheier Cosmopolitan Intimacies and Sexual Politics in Global Civil Society-- H.Seckinelgin Dissident Writings: Prefiguring Global Civil Society?-- M.Glasius PART II: HUMAN SECURITY: FROM STATES TO PEOPLE External State-building and Transnational Networks: The Limits of the Civil Society Approach-- D.Kostovicova & V.Bojicic-Dzelilovic A Bottom-up Approach to Redressing Past Violations of Human Rights-- C.Chinkin & I.Rangelov The Degeneration of Cosmopolitan Wars-- M.J.Faber From Counter-force to Human Security? Experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan-- M.Theros & Y.Said Peace and the People: How the European Union Rewrites Security-- G.Schmeder & M.Martin PART III: BOTTOM-UP GLOBALIZATION Appropriating Normative Geopolitics: Civil Society, International Law, and the Future of the United Nations-- R.Falk Chipko and Grameen Bank: Women's Responses of Resistance and Accommodation with Capital-- M.Desai Globalization and the Study of Global Politics from Below: Preparing the Ground for an Alternative Approach-- S.Selchow Against All Odds: The Urbanizing of Human Security?-- S.Sassen Old New Wars: Global History from Below-- E.Rothschild Conclusion: Can Global Civil Society Answer the Hobbesian Problem?-- M.Albrow.

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