The Idea of Global Civil Society: Ethics and Politics in a Globalizing Era (Routledge Ripe Studies in Global Political Economy)

Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Title......Page 6
Copyright......Page 7
Contents......Page 8
Contributors......Page 10
Series preface......Page 11
Preface......Page 13
Acknowledgements......Page 15
Introducing global civil society......Page 18
A global and civil society......Page 21
Contending narratives......Page 23
The normative implications of global civil society......Page 25
Plan of book......Page 29
Summary......Page 33
Part I Contesting global civil society......Page 34
2 Ideological contestation, transnational civil society and global politics......Page 35
Contesting global governance......Page 37
Global governance and civil society: delineating ideological contours......Page 39
Conservative neo-realism......Page 40
Varieties of liberalism......Page 43
Ideological contestation in global politics......Page 48
Conclusions......Page 50
Notes......Page 51
Introduction......Page 52
Lessons from the past......Page 55
Gramsci in historical context: war, the state and political power6......Page 56
Why civil society?......Page 58
The parameters of debate......Page 59
Some implications for thinking about global civil society......Page 61
Some tentative conclusions......Page 62
Notes......Page 63
Two views of civil society......Page 65
Institutions......Page 66
Hegel......Page 69
Modernization......Page 71
Three modes of structuration......Page 73
Participation......Page 74
Representation......Page 75
Recognition......Page 77
Conclusion......Page 80
Notes......Page 82
Part II Citizenship and global civil society......Page 83
5 Media, cultural citizenship and the global public sphere......Page 84
Media, citizenship and cultural power......Page 86
Cultural citizenship in a global mediated culture......Page 90
Human rights, social movements and global media......Page 91
Technocultures, media and community......Page 94
Speed and communication......Page 97
Moral indifference and cosmopolitanism......Page 98
Mediated citizenship......Page 100
Notes......Page 101
Introduction......Page 102
Citizenship—going global......Page 105
The civil society argument—going global......Page 109
Conclusion—subjects, citizens or pilgrims?......Page 115
Notes......Page 117
Introduction......Page 119
Empirical commonalities......Page 120
Normative commonalities......Page 122
Congruence and its critics......Page 125
Global citizenship requires more than global civil society......Page 126
Global citizenship requires less than global civil society......Page 127
A third way of conceiving global citizenship and global democracy......Page 130
Global governance......Page 133
Global citizenship......Page 136
Notes......Page 138
8 Global civil society, civilians and citizens......Page 139
Ethics and politics......Page 146
The citizenship supplement......Page 150
Civilians and citizens......Page 151
Notes......Page 155
Part III Governance and global civil society......Page 156
9 Global civil society and global governmentality......Page 157
Reflections on the global civil society discourse......Page 158
GCS as bounded space......Page 159
GCS as voluntary associations......Page 161
GCS as agent of empowerment/resistance......Page 164
Global civil society reconsidered......Page 166
From a non-governmental space to a means of governing......Page 167
From fixed agency to the politics of movement......Page 169
Uncovering the power in empowerment......Page 171
Concluding remarks......Page 175
Notes......Page 176
Introduction......Page 177
The evolution of international trade regulation and the sources of civil discontent......Page 178
Civil dissatisfaction and the WTO......Page 181
Managing civil society......Page 184
Geneva......Page 187
Seattle 1: the meeting......Page 188
Seattle 2: the aftermath......Page 189
Concluding remarks......Page 191
Notes......Page 193
Global finance and the puzzle of governance......Page 196
The changing governance problematic......Page 197
Governance, ‘publicness’ and consensus......Page 198
Mapping the public sphere......Page 201
Governance and civil society......Page 208
Conclusion: global capitalism, the public sphere and civil society......Page 210
Notes......Page 212
Global civil society and world order......Page 213
Coercion and consent......Page 215
Mobilization and citizenship......Page 217
Governance, power and discipline......Page 218
Summary......Page 220
References......Page 221
Index......Page 241