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