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1 online resource (290 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Table of Contents; Table; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: Agency in Global Bottom-Up Politics; Part I: Global Civil Society: An Emerging Reality; 1 Cosmopolitan Democracy: Paths and Agents; 2 The Umma: From Global Civil Society to Global Public Sphere; 3 Civility and Global Civil Society: The Missing Link; 4 Cosmopolitan Intimacies and Sexual Politics in Global Civil Society; 5 Dissident Writings: Prefiguring Global Civil Society?; Part II: Human Security: From States to People |
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6 External Statebuilding and Transnational Networks: The Limits of the Civil Society Approach7 A Bottom-Up Approach to Redressing Past Violations of Human Rights; 8 The Degeneration of Cosmopolitan Wars; 9 From Counter-Force to Human Security? Experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan; 10 Peace and the People: How the European Union Rewrites Security; Part III: Bottom-Up Globalization; 11 Appropriating Normative Geopolitics: Civil Society International Law and the Future of the United Nations; 12 Chipko and Grameen Bank: Women's Responses of Resistance and Accommodation with Capital |
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13 Globalization and the Study of Global Politics from Below: Preparing the Ground for an Alternative Approach14 Against All Odds: The Urbanizing of Human Security?; 15 Old New Wars: Global History from Below; Conclusion: Can Global Civil Society Answer the Hobbesian Problem?; Index |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Political participation.
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Globalization -- Political aspects
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Regional studies.
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Globalization.
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Geopolitics.
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Human rights.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
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Geography.
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Globalization -- Political aspects
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Political participation
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Glasius, Marlies.
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| ISBN |
9780230357075 |
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0230357075 |
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