Global Civil Society and Its Limits

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Effective Resistance to Corporate Globalization....Pages 1-21
Front Matter....Pages 23-23
Global Civil Society and International Protest: No Swan Song Yet for the State....Pages 25-42
The Dis-Embedding and Re-Embedding of Capital: Lessons from History....Pages 43-62
‘Civil Society’: Critique and Alternative....Pages 63-81
Front Matter....Pages 83-83
We Are All Marcos? Zapatismo, Solidarity and the Politics of Scale....Pages 85-104
‘Local’ Organizing and ‘Global’ Struggles: Coalition-Building for Social Justice in the Americas....Pages 105-125
Lessons from Mexico–US Civil Society Coalitions....Pages 126-145
Limits to Global Civil Society: Gaps Between Western Donors and Russian NGOs....Pages 146-165
Front Matter....Pages 167-167
The Defeat of the Multilateral Agreement on Investment: National Movements Confront Globalism....Pages 169-188
Civic Literacy in Global Civil Society: Excluding the Majority from Democratic Participation....Pages 189-209
‘Globalization’ and Labour Strategy: Towards a Social Movement Unionism....Pages 210-228
Back Matter....Pages 229-279