Globalizing Citizens: New Dynamics of Inclusion and Exclusion

ISBN-13: 9781848134720 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 278 str.

John Gaventa

Opis

Explores how globalisation has given rise to different meanings of citizenship. This title presents case studies from cities and villages in India, Philippines, Kenya, Brazil and South Africa to explore how various forms of global authority shape and build different meanings and practices of citizenship, across local, national and global arenas.

Spis treści

Part I: Introduction 1. Citizen engagements in a globalising world - John Gaventa and Rajesh Tandon Part II: From Global to Local: the impact of global governance on everyday citizenship 2. Mediated health citizenships: Living with HIV and engaging with the Global Fund in the Gambia - Rebecca Cassidy and Melissa Leach 3. Mobilising and mediating global medicine and health citizenship: the politics of AIDS knowledge production in rural South Africa - Steven Robins 4. Enhancing everyday citizenship practices: women's livelihoods and global markets - Julie Thekkudan 5. The politics of global assessments: the case of the International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD) - Ian Scoones Part III: From Local to Global: the dynamics of transnational citizen action 6. Campaigns for land and citizenship rights: the dynamics of transnational agrarian movements - Saturnino M. Borras and Jennifer C. Franco 7. Spanning citizenship spaces through transnational coalitions: the case of the Global Campaign for Education - John Gaventa and Marjorie Mayo 8. Citizenship and trade governance in the Americas - Rosalba Icaza, Peter Newell and Marcelo Saguier 9. Mobilization and political momentum: Anti-asbestos struggles in South Africa and India' - Linda Waldman 10. Hybrid Activism: paths of the globalization in the Brazilian environmental movement - Alonso 11. Caught between national and global jurisdictions: Displaced people's struggle for rights - Lyla Mehta and Rebecca Napier-Moore