Global Civil Society 2011 [electronic resource] : Globality and the Absence of Justice /
Anheier, Helmut.editor.
Glasius, Marlies.editor.
Kaldor, Mary.editor.
Park, Gil-Sung.editor.
Sengupta, Chandan.editor.
Global Civil Society 2011 combines activist and academic accounts of contemporary struggles to promote, negotiate and deliver justice in a global frame without a central authority. In their engagement with cultural diversity and their networked communication the contributors rethink and remake justice beyond the confines of the nation state.
Description based upon print version of record.
COVER; CONTENTS; LIST OF MAPS, BOXES, FIGURES AND TABLES; CONTRIBUTORS; INTRODUCTION: GLOBALITY AND THE ABSENCE OF JUSTICE; PART I: FORGIVE AND FORGET? COLLECTIVE MEMORY AND THE QUEST FOR JUSTICE; Introduction; 1 Seeking Justice, Honour and Dignity: Movement for the Victims of Japanese Military Sexual Slavery; 2 Addressing Injustice through State, Local Culture and Global Civil Society: The White Terror Incidents in Taiwan; 3 Reconciliation and Transitional Justice: The Contribution of Forgiveness Towards Healing and Restoration
4 Historians and Conflict Resolution: The Challenge of Advocacy to ScholarshipPART II: NETWORKING FOR GLOBAL CIVIL SOCIETY; Introduction; 5 Anti-Slavery and the Redefining of Justice; 6 Pathways Towards Tax Justice; 7 Transnational Networks of 'Self-Representation': An Alternative Form of Struggle for Global Justice; PART III: ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE; Introduction; 8 Community-Based Environmental Governance and Local Justice; 9 The Global Climate Justice Movement; 10 Food Sovereignty and Food Politics in South Korea; PART IV: TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE; Introduction
11 A Plural Approach to the Definition of Social Justice12 Transitional Justice in Sierra Leone; Case Study 1: Community-Based Justice and Reconciliation; Case Study 2: Seeing Justice Done: Outreach and Civil Society at the Special Court for Sierra Leone; 13 Global Civil Society and Transitional Justice; PART V: STATE, NATION AND GLOBAL JUSTICE; Introduction; 14 Japan's Article 9 Renunciation of War as a Model Towards Justice and a Global Civil Society of Peace; 15 Delivering Social Justice for North Korean Refugees in South Korea: Global and Local Spheres of Civil Society
16 The Bottom-up Pursuit of Justice: The Case of Two Burmas17 State, Civil Society and Justice: The Case of India; INDEX
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Global Civil Society 2011 combines activist and academic accounts of contemporary struggles to promote, negotiate and deliver justice in a global frame without a central authority. In their engagement with cultural diversity and their networked communication the contributors rethink and remake justice beyond the confines of the nation state.
Economic policy.
International relations.
Comparative politics.
Economic development.
Globalization.
Development Policy.
International Relations.
Comparative Politics.
Sociology, general.
Development Studies.
Globalization.