Global Civil Society and Its Limits

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Tables and Figures......Page 8
Acknowledgement......Page 9
Notes on the Contributors......Page 10
List of Abbreviations......Page 13
1 Effective Resistance to Corporate Globalization......Page 16
Part I Global Civil Society: Critiques......Page 38
2 Global Civil Society and International Protest: No Swan Song Yet for the State......Page 40
3 The Dis-Embedding and Re-Embedding of Capital: Lessons from History......Page 58
4 \'Civil Society\': Critique and Alternative......Page 78
Part II Transnational Advocacy Networks: Harbingers of a Global Civil Society?......Page 98
5 \'We Are All Marcos\'? Zapatismo, Solidarity and the Politics of Scale......Page 100
6 \'Local\' Organizing and \'Global\' Struggles: Coalition-Building for Social Justice in the Americas......Page 120
7 Lessons from Mexico–US Civil Society Coalitions......Page 141
8 Limits to Global Civil Society: Gaps Between Western Donors and Russian NGOs......Page 161
Part III The National as a Site of Anti-Globalism Resistance......Page 182
9 The Defeat of the Multilateral Agreement on Investment: National Movements Confront Globalism......Page 184
10 Civic Literacy in Global Civil Society: Excluding the Majority from Democratic Participation......Page 204
11 \'Globalization\' and Labour Strategy: Towards Social Movement Unionism......Page 225
Bibliography......Page 244
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