Global civil society : contested futures /
edited by David Chandler and Gideon Baker.
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2005
- xi, 205 p. ; 24 cm.
- Routledge advances in international relations and politics, 32 .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 200 - 201) and index.
Introduction : global civil society and the future of world politics / Gideon Baker and David Chandler -- Global civil society : analytical category or normative concept? / Alejandro Colas -- Cosmocracy and global civil society / John Keane -- The demoralised subject of global civil society / Vanessa Pupavac -- The changing role of global civil society / Richard Falk -- Contextualising the 'anti-capitalism' movement in global civil society / James Heartfield -- The idea of global civil society / Mary Kaldor -- Saying global civil society with rights / Gideon Baker -- Global civil society : thinking politics and progress / Kimberly Hutchings -- Constructing global civil society / David Chandler.
This book brings together for the first time the whole range of established and alternative voices on global civil society, both congratulatory and critical, to set a marker for the state of the debate about global civil society today. This book will be invaluable for students and researchers in the fields of International Politics, Democratisation and Civil Society