Author: Tommaso Vitale Date: To: ML movimenti Bicocca Subject: [movimenti.bicocca] new book : ‘Global Civil Society – More Or Less Democracy?’
> > Wednesday, September 5, 2007
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> Here’s the flier for a new book :
> Mikael Löfgren & Håkan Thörn, 2007 – ‘Global Civil Society – More
> Or Less Democracy?’, special issue of Development Dialogue
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> This comes out of a seminar at the Nairobi Forum in January this
> year. As you will see, it contains reflective essays both on
> global civil society more generally and also on the World Social
> Forum.
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> It’s free ! Order copies at the eddress given…. See the blurb at
> the end for conditions.
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> Upcoming book
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> Global Civil Society
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> – More Or Less Democracy?
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> Special issue of Development Dialogue
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> Mikael Löfgren & Håkan Thörn
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> (guest editors)
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> Table of contents
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> Preface
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> Henning Melber & Mats Rolén
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> 1. Global civil society: more or less democracy? - Introduction
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> Mikael Löfgren & Håkan Thörn
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> 2. Global civil society - opportunity or obstacle for democracy?
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> Jan A Scholte
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> 3. International civil society and the challenge for global solidarity
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> Reinhart Kössler & Henning Melber
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> 4. Bringing civility back in - reflections on global civil society
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> Helmut Anheier
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> 5. The power of civility - some critical reflections on global
> civil society
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> Jai Sen
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> 6. The political and its absence in the World Social Forum -
> implications for democracy
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> Teivo Teivainen
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> 7. Linking below, across and against: World Social Forum
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> weaknesses, global governance gaps, and the global justice
> movement’s strategic dilemmas
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> Patrick Bond
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> 8. Global civil society and democracy - the difficult way of an
> unavoidable task. Visions from the South
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> Moema Miranda
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> 9. Civil society and the nation-state - the case of Kenya
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> Steve Ouma
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> 10. The challenges of global civil society for the “post-communist”
> world
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> Alla G. Glinchikova
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> 11. The internal contradictions of global civil society - what
> impact on global
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> democracy?
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> Lorenzo Fioramonti
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> 12. Corporate globalization, civil society, and postpolitical
> regulation - whither democracy?
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> Christina Garsten & Kerstin Jacobsson
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> 13. Global civil society and de-/democratization - anti-apartheid,
> aid(s) politics and the World Social Forum
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> Håkan Thörn
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> The recent discourse on a global‚ international‚ or transnational
> civil society implies the emergence of a new global political
> space, distinguished from the world of international politics. What
> are implications for democracy of the increasing number and
> activities of NGOs, social movement organisations and private
> foundations globally? In what sense do (or can) global civil
> society contribute to further democratisation in an era of
> globalisation? In what sense can global civil society undermine
> democratisation processes? These are key issues in this special
> issue of Development Dialogue, originating in a seminar held at the
> World Social Forum in Nairobi 2007.
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> development dialogue is addressed to individuals and organisations
> in both the South and the North. development dialogue is intended
> to provide a free forum for critical discussion of international
> development priorities for the 21st century.
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> development dialogue is published by the Dag Hammarskjöld
> Foundation. Free copies can be ordered, you will only pay postage
> cost.
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> web: www.dhf.uu.se >
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