Social Movements for Global Democracy

Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-0-8018-8743-7
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 227 mm, Gewicht: 544 g

Reihe: Themes in Global Social Change

Honorable Mention, 2010 Book Award, Global Division, Society for the Study of Social ProblemsHonorable Mention, 2010 PEWS Book Award, Political Economy of the World-System section of the American Sociological Association

This groundbreaking study sheds new light on the struggle to define the course of globalization. Synthesizing extensive research on transnational activism, Social Movements for Global Democracy shows how transnational networks of social movement activists—democratic globalizers—have worked to promote human rights and ecological sustainability over the predominant neoliberal system of economic integration.

Using case studies of recent and ongoing campaigns for global justice, Jackie Smith provides valuable insight into whether and how these activists are succeeding. She argues that democratic globalizers could be more effective if they presented a united front organized around a global vision that places human rights and ecological stability foremost and if they were to directly engage governments and the United Nations.

Illuminating the deep-seated struggles between two visions of globalization, Smith reveals a network of activists who have long been working to democratize the global political system.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Smith, Jackie

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Globalisierung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Demokratie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Tables and Figures
Preface
Part I: Foundations
1. Contested Globalizations
2. Rival Transnational Networks
3. Politics in a Global System
Part II: Rival Networks Examined
4. Globalizing Capitalism: The Transnational Neoliberal Network in Action
5. Promoting Multilateralism: Social Movements and the UN System
6. Mobilizing a Transnational Network for Democratic Globalization
Part III: Struggles for Multilateralism and Global Democracy
7. Agenda Setting in a Global Polity
8. Domesticating International Human Rights Norms
9. Confronting Contradictions between Multilateral Economic Institutions and the UN System
10. Alternative Political Spaces: The World Social Forum Process and "Globalization from Below"
Conclusion: Network Politics and Global Democracy
Notes
References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Smith, Jackie
Jackie Smith is an associate professor of sociology and peace studies at the University of Notre Dame. She is coauthor of Global Democracy and the World Social Forums and coeditor of Coalitions Across Borders: Transnational Protest and the Neoliberal Order, Globalizing Resistance: Transnational Dimensions of Social Movements, and Transnational Social Movements and Global Politics: Solidarity Beyond the State.

Jackie Smith is an associate professor of sociology and peace studies at the University of Notre Dame. She is coauthor of Global Democracy and the World Social Forums and coeditor of Coalitions Across Borders: Transnational Protest and the Neoliberal Order, Globalizing Resistance: Transnational Dimensions of Social Movements, and Transnational Social Movements and Global Politics: Solidarity Beyond the State.