yearbook 2009

Global Civil Society 2009

Global Civil Society 2009: Poverty and Activism. Global Civil Society 2009 explores the framing, strategies and impacts of various actors in global civil society on poverty and its eradication. A CSGG collaboration with the Tata Institute of Social Sciences in Mumbai, and the Centre for Social Investment at Heidelberg University, this edition is published by Sage.

Editors: Ashwani Kumar, Jan Aart Scholte, Mary Kaldor, Marlies Glasius, Hakan Seckinelgin, Helmut Anheier


Introduction
Mary Kaldor, Ashwani Kumar and Hakan Seckinelgin

 

CHAPTER 1 Poverty Discourses and Global Civil Society
Harsh Mander, Virginius Xaxa, Lakshmi Lingam and Amita Bhide


CHAPTER 2 Global Poverty Statistics and Civil Society
Sally Stares


CHAPTER 3 Bringing Justice and Culture Back in: Global Action for Local Livelihoods
Smitu Kothari


CHAPTER 4 Global Organisation in Civil Society: the Effects on Poverty
Jan Aart Scholte and Jill Timms


CHAPTER 5 Global Civil Society and Budget Participation
Celine Tan


CHAPTER 6 Faith-based Action in Development and Humanitarian Work
Khaled Mansour and Heba Raouf Ezzat


CHAPTER 7 Living in the Shadows: Injustice, Racism and Poverty in the Indian Diaspora
Vinay Lal


CHAPTER 8 Economic Migrants, the Banana Supply Chain, and the London Living Wage: Three Cases of Global Civil Society Activism on Poverty
Laurie Berg & Anna Samson, Pamela K Robinson and Jane Wills


CHAPTER 9 Viewing Restricted: [Re]Presenting Poverty
Jessica Dimmock, Mishka Henner, Sharron Lovell, Subhash Sharma and Ali Taptik


CHAPTER 10 Global Civil Society Forums and Poverty
Jan Aart Scholte, Renate Bloem, Richard Samans, Kumi Naidoo, Chantana Banpasirichote Wungaeo, Virginia Vargas, Barry Aminata Touré and Chandan Sengupta


Conclusion
Marlies Glasius and Jan Aart Scholte


Introducing Futures Research: Forecasting and Scenarios
Helmut Anheier and Hagai Katz