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- Title
Global Civil Society: Royal Road or Slippery Path?
- Authors
Munck, Ronaldo
- Abstract
Global civil society has become an important paradigm for progressive social change at a planetary level. It posits a bold new ethical project for global democratization. For its critics, though, it is just the social wing of neoliberal globalization diverting social movements from their tasks. It is also seen as irredeemably Eurocentric in its assumptions and orientation. A third option, proposed here, is to understand global civil society as a complex social and spatial terrain. By bringing politics back in, a progressive option can be presented to contest the dominant co-optive or reformist conception of global civil society.
- Subjects
CIVIL society; SOCIAL change; DEMOCRATIZATION; NEOLIBERALISM; GLOBALIZATION; SOCIAL movements; EUROCENTRISM
- Publication
Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary & Nonprofit Organizations, 2006, Vol 17, Issue 4, p324
- ISSN
0957-8765
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11266-006-9019-z