Global Civil Society and Its Limits

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Effective Resistance to Corporate Globalization

   1. Effective Resistance to Corporate Globalization

      • Sandra Halperin, Gordon Laxer

      Pages 1-21

3. Global Civil Society: Critiques

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-23

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   2. Global Civil Society and International Protest: No Swan Song Yet for the State

      • Jeffrey M Ayres

      Pages 25-42

   3. The Dis-Embedding and Re-Embedding of Capital: Lessons from History

      • Sandra Halperin

      Pages 43-62

   4. ‘Civil Society’: Critique and Alternative

      • Lawrence Hamilton

      Pages 63-81

4. Transnational Advocacy Networks: Harbingers of a Global Civil Society?

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 83-83

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   2. We Are All Marcos? Zapatismo, Solidarity and the Politics of Scale

      • Josée Johnston

      Pages 85-104

   3. ‘Local’ Organizing and ‘Global’ Struggles: Coalition-Building for Social Justice in the Americas

      • Marie-Josée Massicotte

      Pages 105-125

   4. Lessons from Mexico–US Civil Society Coalitions

      • Jonathan Fox

      Pages 126-145

   5. Limits to Global Civil Society: Gaps Between Western Donors and Russian NGOs

      • Lisa Sundstrom

      Pages 146-165

5. The National as a Site of Anti-Globalism Resistance

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 167-167

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   2. The Defeat of the Multilateral Agreement on Investment: National Movements Confront Globalism

      • Gordon Laxer

      Pages 169-188

   3. Civic Literacy in Global Civil Society: Excluding the Majority from Democratic Participation

      • Henry Milner

      Pages 189-209

   4. ‘Globalization’ and Labour Strategy: Towards a Social Movement Unionism

      • İsmet Akҫa

      Pages 210-228

6. Back Matter

   Pages 229-279

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This volume critically examines the promise of a global civil society. Exploring issues in cases of diverse social justice movements, the contributors show that a global civil society is still far from emerging and its promotion may even harm the realization of grassroots democracy. The Internet is an exciting new means for activists to communicate internationally, and citizens' movements increasingly co-ordinate campaigns through transnational advocacy networks, but most effective civic action still takes place at national and local levels.

• democracy
• Front
• globalization
• Internet
• NGO
• participation
• Protest

• Department of Sociology, University of Alberta, Canada

  Gordon Laxer

• School of Social Sciences, University of Sussex, UK

  Sandra Halperin

ISMET AKÇA Ph.D. candidate, Department of Political Science and International Relations, Bogaziçi, Istanbul JEFFREY AYRES Associate Professor of Political Science, Saint Michael's College, Colchester, Vermont, USA JONATHAN FOX Professor and Chair of Latin American and Latino Studies Department, University of California, USA LAWRENCE HAMILTON Mellon Research Fellow, Clare Hall, Cambridge, UK JOSÉE JOHNSTON Ph.D. on food security, University of Toronto MARIE-JOSÉE MASSICOTTE Ph.D. candidate, Department of Political Science, York University, Toronto, Canada HENRY MILNER Professor of Political Science, Vanier College, Montreal, Canada LISA SUNDSTROM Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of British Columbia, USA

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