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

Front Matter....Pages i-xxiii
Introduction: Agency in Global Bottom-Up Politics....Pages 1-17
Front Matter....Pages 19-19
Cosmopolitan Democracy: Paths and Agents....Pages 21-39
The Umma: From Global Civil Society to Global Public Sphere....Pages 40-49
Civility and Global Civil Society: The Missing Link....Pages 50-60
Cosmopolitan Intimacies and Sexual Politics in Global Civil Society....Pages 61-74
Dissident Writings: Prefiguring Global Civil Society?....Pages 75-90
Front Matter....Pages 91-91
External Statebuilding and Transnational Networks: The Limits of the Civil Society Approach....Pages 93-111
A Bottom-Up Approach to Redressing Past Violations of Human Rights....Pages 112-126
The Degeneration of Cosmopolitan Wars....Pages 127-141
From Counter-Force to Human Security? Experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan....Pages 142-159
Peace and the People: How the European Union Rewrites Security....Pages 160-174
Front Matter....Pages 175-175
Appropriating Normative Geopolitics: Civil Society International Law and the Future of the United Nations....Pages 177-191
Chipko and Grameen Bank: Women’s Responses of Resistance and Accommodation with Capital....Pages 192-202
Globalization and the Study of Global Politics from Below: Preparing the Ground for an Alternative Approach....Pages 203-215
Against All Odds: The Urbanizing of Human Security?....Pages 216-226
Old New Wars: Global History from Below....Pages 227-240
Conclusion: Can Global Civil Society Answer the Hobbesian Problem?....Pages 241-255
Back Matter....Pages 256-265