Social Movements for Global Democracy by Jackie Smith (English) Paperback Book

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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.

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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.

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This impressive book presents a distinctive and provocative point of view. It successfully combines the construction of an analytical framework with the advocacy of a political agenda without allowing the political agenda to overwhelm the analytical framework or the analytical framework to obscure the political issues at stake. Social Movements for Global Democracy will play an important role in future debates over globalization. -- Peter Evans, University of California, Berkeley At last, a book that takes seriously the role of international institutions in opposing global neoliberalism! While acutely conscious of the biases of these institutions, Smith vigorously argues that the new forms of democratic participation encapsulated in the movement for global justice must engage them in contentious interaction. Her book is a challenge to movement activists and to institutional elites alike. -- Sidney Tarrow, Maxwell Upson Professor of Government and Professor of Sociology, Cornell University

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

List of Tables and FiguresPrefacePart I: Foundations1. Contested Globalizations2. Rival Transnational Networks3. Politics in a Global SystemPart II: Rival Networks Examined4. Globalizing Capitalism: The Transnational Neoliberal Network in Action5. Promoting Multilateralism: Social Movements and the UN System6. Mobilizing a Transnational Network for Democratic GlobalizationPart III: Struggles for Multilateralism and Global Democracy7. Agenda Setting in a Global Polity8. Domesticating International Human Rights Norms9. Confronting Contradictions between Multilateral Economic Institutions and the UN System10. Alternative Political Spaces: The World Social Forum Process and "Globalization from Below"Conclusion: Network Politics and Global DemocracyNotesReferencesIndex

Review

Smith's book nicely illuminates the emerging world of global civil society, providing tools for its ongoing study. -- G. John Ikenberry Foreign Affairs Highly recommended. Choice She mobilizes a host of secondary literature, as well as original field research, to offer a well-supported examination of the threats to, and need for, making multilateral institutions work on behalf of those who would save the world, not sell it. -- Elisabeth Jay Friedman Mobilization An impassioned examination of transnational social movements... provides valuable insights into the mobilization, tactics, and successes of the democratic globalization movement. -- Liam Swiss Canadian Journal of Sociology This is an excellent study that shows the diversity of the democratic globalization movement. -- Agnieszka Paczynska Peace and Change Smith has gathered a very impressive collection of data on complex global processes and structures. Writing from an engaged, critical perspective, she offers a coherent, thoughtful analysis of contested processes of globalization and constructive insights on potential pathways toward global democratization. This excellent book will be of great interest to sociologists and other students of this critical issue of our times. -- Lynn R. Horton Contemporary Sociology The most comprehensive and well-documented study to date on current transnational movements. Smith deserves credit for penning such a thorough, reflexive, and multifaceted book. -- Dana M. Williams Sociology

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This impressive book presents a distinctive and provocative point of view. It successfully combines the construction of an analytical framework with the advocacy of a political agenda without allowing the political agenda to overwhelm the analytical framework or the analytical framework to obscure the political issues at stake. Social Movements for Global Democracy will play an important role in future debates over globalization. -- Peter Evans, University of California, Berkeley At last, a book that takes seriously the role of international institutions in opposing global neoliberalism! While acutely conscious of the biases of these institutions, Smith vigorously argues that the new forms of democratic participation encapsulated in the movement for global justice must engage them in contentious interaction. Her book is a challenge to movement activists and to institutional elites alike. -- Sidney Tarrow, Maxwell Upson Professor of Government and Professor of Sociology, Cornell University

Long Description

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.

Review Text

""The most comprehensive and well-documented study to date on current transnational movements. Smith deserves credit for penning such a thorough, reflexive, and multifaceted book.""

Review Quote

"This is an excellent study that shows the diversity of the democratic globalization movement." -- Agnieszka Paczynska, Peace and Change

Details ISBN0801887445 Author Jackie Smith Short Title SOCIAL MOVEMENTS FOR GLOBAL DE Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press Series Themes in Global Social Change Language English ISBN-10 0801887445 ISBN-13 9780801887444 Media Book Format Paperback Year 2008 Imprint Johns Hopkins University Press Place of Publication Baltimore, MD Country of Publication United States Birth 1968 Residence US Audience Age 13 Affiliation University of Pittsburgh NZ Release Date 2008-03-31 US Release Date 2008-03-31 UK Release Date 2008-03-31 Pages 304 Publication Date 2008-03-31 Alternative 9780801887437 DEWEY 303.482 Illustrations 3 Line drawings, black and white Audience Tertiary & Higher Education AU Release Date 2008-02-14 We've got this

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