Globalisation: New Global Non-State Actors and New Social Movements Flashcards
Who is Civil Society most associated with?
Often associated with Immanuel Kant and Antonio Gramsci (and Hobbes and Locke discussed it more generally as what is meant by civilised society)
What is Civil Society?
- The realm of civil engagement above
the private and below the state
- Only possible in and one of the
characteristisc of democracy
- Non-democracies restrict or make
impossible the existence of civil
society (China)What forms can civil society take?
- Association
- Identity Formation
- Activism
- Lobbying
- Interest Groups
- Excluded groups
- Protests and Movements
- Community Development
- Voluntary Sector
- Political Violence?
- Proximity to government?
What is meant by civil society in the global context?
NGO’s charities, aid and humanitarian groups and their links with self organising associational groups
What is the history of global civil society organisations?
- Have emerged since the 1970s
- Made possible by the globalisation of
communication and in response to what
the globalisation of communication
makes visible (poverty, exploitation,
repression, suffering) - They success led to accreditation and
recognition by International Bodies
from the 1990s - A portion of unilateral and
multilateral development funding is
dispersed through these organisations
What is globalisation?
The process of increasing interconnectedness between societies such that events in one part of the world increasingly have effects on people and societies far away
What is the Standard Policy Approach to globalisation?
- Interdependence
- Connectedness
- “Global Village”
- Inherently Democratising
- A fact of modern life that need to be
made to “work” - Inevitable
What is the academic debate concerning globalisation?
- Globalisation as a real material historical process - Globlisations as a hegemonic project - Different schools of thought (Globalist, Transformationalist, Critical, Sceptical ) - Key conceptual points in the debate: History (when do we start story), Democracy, Capital, Imperialism and Power (in relation to) - Cuts across all disciplines in the social sciences
What are the dimensions of the schools of thought regarding globalisation?
- Globalist vs Skeptic
- Communitarian vs Cosmopolitan
What are the schools of though regarding globalisation?
- Transformationalists
- Critical Globalists
- Statists
- Glocalists
Who are Transformationalists?
- Globalists and Cosmopolitan
- Liberal
- Enthusiastic about progressive political change and democratisation,
- Emphasis on Global Civil Societ
Who are Critical Globalists?
- Globalists and Communitarian
- Anti/alter-globlisation activists
- Emphasis on exploitation & inequality
- Political economy and capitalism
Who are Statists?
- Skeptic and Communitarian
- The state is still the only game in town
- Classical Marxists
- Realist IR
Who are Glocalists?
- Skeptic and Cosmopolitan
- Liberal
- Emphasis on hybridity
- Assumption of inevitability
- “post modern” all boundaries blurred
What is cosmopolitanism?
Orientation toward the universal, the plural and the democratic
