Bottom-Up Politics: An Agency-Centred Approach to Globalization

ISBN-13: 9780230280328 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 290 str.

Kostovicova, D.

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

MARTIN ALBROW Senior Visiting Fellow at LSE Global Governance, UK HELMUT K. ANHEIER Dean of Hertie School of Governance, Germany DANIELE ARCHIBUGI works at the Italian National Research Council in Rome, Italy, and the University of London, UK VESNA BOJICIC-DZELILOVIC Senior Research Fellow at LSE Global Governance, UK CHRISTINE CHINKIN Professor in International Law at LSE, UK, and William W. Cook Global Law Professor at the University of Michigan Law School, USA MEGHNAD DESAI Emeritus Professor of Economics at LSE, UK MIENT JAN FABER Professor of Citizens' Involvement in War Situations at the Free University Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Visiting Professor at the University of Houston, USA RICHARD FALK Albert G. Milbank Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University, USA, and Visiting Distinguished Professor in Global and International Studies at the University of California, USA ANTHONY GIDDENS Fellow of King's College Cambridge, UK, and Emeritus Professor at LSE, UK DAVID HELD Graham Wallas Chair in Political Science and co-Director of LSE Global Governance, UK MARY MARTIN Research Fellow and Director of Communications for Human Security at LSE Global Governance, UK IAVOR RANGELOV Global Security Research Fellow at LSE Global Governance, UK HEBA RAOUF EZZAT teaches Political Theory at Cairo University, and at the American University in Cairo, Egypt EMMA ROTHSCHILD Director of the Joint Centre for History and Economics , USA/UK, and Professor of History at Harvard University, USA, and a Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge, UK YAHIA SAID Research Fellow at LSE Global Governance, UK SASKIA SASSEN Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and Co-Chair of The Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University, USA GENEVIEVE SCHMEDER Professor of Economics at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers in Paris and the University Paris X Nanterre, France HAKAN SECKINELGIN Senior Lecturer in International Social Policy in the Department of Social Policy, LSE, and Research Associate at LSE Global Governance, UK SABINE SELCHOW Research Fellow at LSE Global Governance, USA MARIKA THEROS Research Officer at LSE Global Governance, UK