Buckley, Karen M.

Global civil society and transversal hegemony: the globalization-contestation nexus/ Karen M Buckley - London: Routledge, 2013. - xiv, 178 p. ; 25 cm.

Global political economy of resistance --
Gramscian civil society and hegemony --
politics of knowledge construction --
Chapter outline --
politics of power and resistance --
Philosophy and praxis --
Neo-Polanyian optimism of the will --
dialectics of concept and reality --
Towards global civil society and transversal hegemony --
Global inaccessibility --
Accumulations of meanings --
Global civil society and alter-globalization --
global public sphere --
Hopeful and critical voices --
Global accessibility --
Conclusions --
Modes of social relation --
Contesting global governance --
Lacunas in contesting global governance --
Conclusions --
Global convergence at the World Social forum --
Creative dislocation: where global civil society meets world ordering --
Conceptualizing global civil society at the site of the forum --
Convergence and strategy --
Conclusions --
People's Agreement: articulation of alternatives through Mother Earth --
World People's Conference on Climate Change (WPCCC): situating alternatives --
Spaces and movements of global contestation: World Social Forums and the World People's Conference on Climate Change --
Conclusions: global symbols, metaphors and resistance --
nature of critique: voluntarism and mechanical categories of research --
Transversal hegemony: dialogue and knowledge --
Conclusions.

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Anti-globalization movement
Globalization--Social aspects
Protest movements

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