Global civil society and transversal hegemony : the globalization-contestation nexus / Karen M. Buckley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Buckley, Karen M.

Series:

Rethinking globalizations ; 46.

Rethinking globalizations ; 46

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anti-globalization movement.

Globalization--Social aspects.

Globalization.

Civil society.

Protest movements.

Physical Description:

xiv, 178 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2013.

Summary:

"There has been clear recognition of tendencies towards uncritically celebrating resistance and the need for critical appraisal within the literature on globalization and contestation. This book provides a conceptual history of global civil society and a critical examination of the politics of resistance in the global political economy. It uses a dialectical method of analysis to illustrate the conceptual stasis of mainstream approaches to questions of globalization and contestation, while demonstrating the potential of a Gramscian approach to reconstitute hegemony as a key analytical and explanatory tool. Buckley offers insight to the movements of transversal hegemony and existent and anticipated modes of social relation through the case studies of the World Social Forum and the World People's Conference on Climate Change. Offering a more comprehensive understanding of change in the global political economy, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of international political economy, globalization, global civil society, sociology, and the politics resistance."-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415698627

0415698626

OCLC:

827115054