Civics and citizenship Books

Book SynopsisRobin Bunce is Director of Studies for Politics at Homerton College, Cambridge, UK, and a Bye-Fellow in History at St Edmund's College, Cambridge. He is also an editor of Twentieth Century History Review.Paul Field worked as a journalist for many years specializing in issues of policing, asylum and institutional racism, before becoming a lawyer specializing in the fields of discrimination and employment.Trade ReviewDarcus Howe has had a somewhat dramatic personal and political life, both of which are sewn together seamlessly in the forthcoming book Darcus Howe: A Political Biography. -- Subi Shah * New Internationalist magazine *An obvious candidate [for the Orwell Prize] from this year’s nominees is Robin Bunce and Paul Field’s “political biography” of the activist and journalist Darcus Howe. The book is political in far more than its content: as the authors rightly say, Britain’s Black Power movement is in danger of being written out of history. -- Conrad Landin * The Independent *The first detailed history of black power in Britain . . . Bunce and Paul Field have published a political biography of Darcus Howe – one of the most significant black activists in Britain – using him as a framework for a history of the black power movement in Britain. -- Mark Brown * The Guardian *This new book, co-authored by the Haldane Society’s Paul Field, is passionately conceived, thoroughly researched, and very well written. It is thoroughly recommended ... I can also vouch for the authors’ accuracy and objectivity, and the skill with which they bring key events of the last forty plus years to life ... Howe was never an organiser, nor a leader. But he has played a very considerable role in the movement for a distinctive Black British identity. This new book brings the man and forty years of tumultuous history to life, and never forgets the role of the political analysis which Howe learnt from C. L. R. James. -- Bill Bowring, Professor of Law, University of London * Socialist Lawyer *This is a long overdue and badly needed biographical portrait of the black Trinidadian political radical and broadcaster Darcus Howe, who as one of the leading ideological agitators of the British Black Power Movement made a critical contribution to the shaping of modern multiracial and multicultural ‘postcolonial’ Britain...The pioneering efforts of Bunce and Field, undertaken in close collaboration with Howe himself and his partner, Leila Hassan, mean that for the first time the essential facts of Howe’s life and work are presented in one volume, complete with some remarkable photographs. At least some aspects of the fascinating, gripping, and often inspiring record of activism and campaigning that emerges will doubtless be new to the vast majority of readers, and the authors are to be commended for making this such an accessible and readable narrative that illuminates the wider civil rights and black liberation struggle in Britain. -- Christian Høgsbjerg, University of York * Twentieth Century British History *Just how far the British Left needs to travel in order to reshape its politics via the Black British experience is revealed by the superb Darcus Howe: A Political Biography which via personal testimony revisits a history of migration, self-self-organisaton and resistance which exists largely outside of traditional Left politics. -- Mark Perryman, Philosophy Football * Counterfire *This biography of Darcus Howe is undoubtedly a labour of love. Robin Bunce and Paul Field have made a creditable attempt to chart postwar black activism though one man's life. And there can be no other person more appropriate to build the story around - because Darcus Howe is one of the standout activists and public intellectuals of his generation ... for many of us, he will always be that man in the dock at the Mangrove trail, standing up to an institutioanlly racist state - and standing up for us all. This meticulous biography sets out the facts about a life and an era that should be far more widely known. -- Diane Abbott MP * The New Statesman *At least some aspects of the fascinating, gripping, and often inspiring record of activism and campaigning that emerges will doubtless be new to the vast majority of readers, and the authors are to be commended for making this such an accessible and readable narrative that illuminates the wider civil rights and black liberation struggle in Britain. -- Christian Hogsbjerg * Journal of Palestine Studies *This fascinating political biography of Darcus Howe will teach even the most knowledgeable of students of Caribbean history and the struggles of the diaspora many valuable lessons... Howe survived police harassment, imprisonment, death threats from the Trinidadian state and the pressure to metamorphose into a middle class peacemaker that went with becoming something of a media star and then broadcaster. It is a testimony to the strength of his resolve that he still remains committed to struggle from below - a struggle in which black people had to find their voice but also one where he did not give up totally on the possibilities of wider class unity, although it was perhaps for others to concentrate on this. Howe persists as a troublemaker and this book is a fitting and honest testimony to his continuing contribution to the struggle for black liberation and radical change. * Gary McFarlane, International Socialism *One of the most exciting books on the shelves at the moment * Left Futures *This book is a an invaluable contribution to a vital task: uncovering the history of black activism in Britain and its relationship to global trends. The authors place the meaning and impact of Black Power, so often caricatured, in a richly chronicled context. In the spirit of CLR James, a figure who rightly presides over the book, as he did over the life of its subject, they focus on grass-roots creativity, on the interventions of people on the margins. In so doing, they bring to life a series of dramatic struggles, including the Black Power revolt in Trinidad, the persecution of the Mangrove restaurant in Notting Hill and the ground-breaking resistance to it, the New Cross fire and the Brixton riots of 1981. The book is a powerful reminder of much of our recent history, a history in danger of being forgotten or filed away under glib rubrics. * Mike Marqusee, author of Redemption Song: Muhammed Ali and the Spirit of the Sixties (2005). *Darcus Howe has been a towering figure,a powerful voice and an indominatable spirit for nearly half a century. His life embraces the history and critical importance of the struggle for justice and equality before the law. The lessons so graphically described in this book should not be forgotten by anyone lest we be condemned to relive them. * Michael Mansfield, Professor of Law at City University and Visiting Professor of Law at Birkbeck London, UK *Bruce and Field's new biography shows Howe as an indomitable class fighter, a man who refuses to allow even the threat of prison, or a diagnosis of cancer to silence him...The story of their [Howe and CLR James] personal relationship and thie response to British society is interweaved into the narrative of this text, a story that remains little known outside of the black community...For those interested in the significance and development of black urban politics in Britain, this book offers an informative, stimulating and at times controversial read. -- Jacqueline Walker, author of Pilgrim State (Sceptre, 2008) * writing in Labour Briefing *This riveting study illuminates the complexity of Darcus Howe's lifelong dedication to radical politics. Diligently researched and engagingly written, this remarkable book articulates and salutes a unique presence in modern British history; an activist whose stance against racial oppression remains undiminished, unapologetic and uncompromising, in a contemporary world too-often dominated by the shape-shifting of spin and short-term reactive thinking. -- Deirdre Osborne, Goldsmiths College, University of LondonTable of ContentsPreface Introduction – ‘Darcus Howe is a West Indian’ 1 Son of a Preacher Man 2 ‘ Dabbling with Revolution ’ : Black Power Comes to Britain 3 Know Yourself 4 Cause for Concern 5 ‘ Darcus Howe is not a Comedian ’ 6 Revolution in Trinidad: ‘Seize Power and send for James’ 7 A Resting Place in Babylon: Frank Crichlow and the Mangrove 8 Demonstration 9 Clampdown 10 55 Days at the Old Bailey 11 Towards Racial Justice 12 Race Today: ‘Come what may here to stay’ 13 Ten Years on bail: ‘Darcus outta jail’ 14 ‘Thirteen Dead and Nothing Said’ 15 Insurrection 16 Carnival: Revolutionaries Don’t Wear Glitter 17 Playing Devil’s Advocate 18 Slave Nation 19 Fight to the Finish Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book assesses the balancing act between EU free movement law, fundamental EU objectives and Member States' concerns regarding their welfare systems. It takes a novel dual approach: namely combining doctrinal analysis of EU citizenship case law with an examination of mobility data. This allows the study to clearly show an imbalance between the representation and protection of these conflicting interests in EU case law. It goes further, identifying avenues for reform and highlighting the importance of the principle of proportionality for attaining a legitimate balance of interests. In a field in which much has been written, this offers a truly original perspective. It will be much welcomed by scholars of EU free movement and citizenship law.

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Book SynopsisAfter decades of extraordinary successes as a multicultural society, new debates are bubbling to the surface in Canada. The contributors to this volume examine the conflict between equality rights, as embedded in the Charter, and multiculturalism as policy and practice, and ask which charter value should trump which and under what circumstances? The opening essay deliberately sharpens the conflict among religion, culture, and equality rights and proposes to shift some of the existing boundaries. Other contributors disagree strongly, arguing that this position might seek to limit freedoms in the name of justice, that the problem is badly framed, or that silence is a virtue in rebalancing norms. The contributors not only debate the analytic arguments but infuse their discussion with their personal experiences, which have shaped their perspectives on multiculturalism in Canada. This volume is a highly personal as well as strongly analytic discussion of multiculturalism in Canada today. Trade ReviewThis collection of essays addressing the tensions in Canada between rights and multiculturalism is a very Canadian book. It propvides an excellent survey of multiculturalism and rights issues in Canada, and of the manner in which the debate is taking place intense disgreements debated in a very collegial (Canadian) fashion. Tracie Scott, Birkbeck College British Journal Of Canadian Studies 2009``In the midst of the debate on Canadian multiculturalism and whither it's bound comes a timely book from Wilfrid Laurier University Press.... If you have a genuine interest in the future of Canada this book is essential reading.... If you believe the Canadian concept of multiculturalism is worth preserving...This book offers eight viewpoints that pave the way.'' -- Ben Viccari -- Canscene, August 2007, 200708``Canada has benefited from favourable circumstances in putting in place a peaceful and prosperous multicultural society. But we have let good fortune take the place of hard thinking, and we have not sufficiently engaged in democratic discussion to do with the kind of multicultural society that we want. It is past time that we take up Janice Gross Stein's invitation to face upt to this difficult but unavoidable societal challenge.'' -- Daniel Marc Weinstock -- Literary Review of Canada, January/February 2008, 200801``The seven essays that fill this book pack more punch than you might expect. By turns the pieces are provocative, witty or frustrating -- but rarely dull'' -- Omar Majeed -- Montreal Gazette, June 30, 2007, 200707Table of Contents Uneasy Partners: Multiculturalism and Rights in Canada by Janet Gross Stein, David Robertson Cameron, John Ibbitson, Will Kymlicka, John Meisel, Haroon Siddiqui, and Michael Valpy Acknowledgements Janet Gross Stein Introduction Frank Iacobucci Searching for Equality Janice Gross Stein Don't Blame Multiculturalism Haroon Siddiqui Let Sleeping Dogs Lie John Ibbitson An Evolutionary Story David Cameron Canada: J'accuse/j'adore: Extracts from a Memoir John Meisel Seismic Tremors: Religion and the Law Michael Valpy Disentangling the Debate Will Kymlicka Contributors Index Contributors David Robertson Cameron, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, is chair and professor of political science at the University of Toronto, where he served as vice-president from 1985 to 1987. He has divided his time between public service (federally and provincially) and academic life. For the government of Canada, he has served as Assistant Secretary to Cabinet for Strategic and Constitutional Planning and was assistant undersecretary of State from 1979 to 1985. For Ontario, he was Deputy Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs from 1987 to 1990. His recent publications include Cycling into Saigon: The 1995 Conservative Transition in Ontario (2000), with Graham White; Disability and Federalism: Comparing Different Approaches to Full Participation (2001), with Fraser Valentine; and Street Protests and Fantasy Parks: Globalization, Culture and Society (2002), with Janice Gross Stein. The Honourable Frank Iacobucci is counsel with Torys LLP and chair of Torstar Corporation and a director of Tim Hortons Inc. He is also chair of the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario. He has taught at and was dean of the Faculty of Law of the University of Toronto, and served as the university's vice-president of internal affairs as well as provost and, from September 2004 to June 2005, was interim president. In 1985 he was appointed deputy minister of Justice and deputy attorney general for Canada; in 1988, chief justice of the Federal Court of Canada; and from 1991 to 2004, a justice of the Supreme Court of Canada. In 2005, he was the federal representative in the negotiations leading to a comprehensive agreement to resolve the legacy of Indian Residential Schools. He is also a member of the Ontario Law Commission and, in December 2006, was appointed commissioner to lead an inquiry into the conduct of Canadian officials regarding certain individuals. A recipient of numerous awards and honours in Canada and abroad, he has authored or edited numerous books, articles, and commentaries on a variety of subjects. John Ibbitson has written on provincial, national and American politics since joining The Globe and Mail in 1999. He has also written numerous books on politics and public policy, the most recent being The Polite Revolution: Perfecting the Canadian Dream (2005). From 2002 to 2007 he wrote the political affairs column for the Globe, based in Ottawa, before moving to Washington to write commentary on American politics and society. He is also a well-known author of novels for young readers, including 1812: Jeremy's War (1991) and Water Music, to be published in 2008 by Kidscan Press. Will Kymlicka holds the Canada Research Chair in Political Philosophy at Queen's University and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the Canadian Institute of Advanced Research and the Trudeau Foundation. He is the author of six books published by Oxford University Press: Liberalism, Community and Culture (1989), Contemporary Political Philosophy: An Introduction (1990; second edition 2002), Multicultural Citizenship: A Liberal Theory of Minority Right (1995), Finding Our Way: Rethinking Ethnocultural Relations in Canada (1998), Politics in the Vernacular: Nationalism, Multiculturalism and Citizenship (2001) and Multicultural Odysseys: Navigating the New International Politics of Diversity (2007). His works have been translated into 30 languages. John Meisel, of Czech origin, is the Sir Edward Peacock Professor of Political Science Emeritus at Queen's University. He is a Companion of the Order of Canada, a former president of the Royal Society of Canada and a one-time chair of the Canadian Radio and Telecommunication Commission of Canada. Except for visiting professorships at Yale University and in the United Kingdom, he spent his whole academic life at Queen's,where he pioneered studies of elections and political parties, the role of government in the arts, the politics of regulation and challenges to national cohesion. Teaching, research, writing and nature have been his passions and he finds it hard not to get involved in issues affecting the common weal. Haroon Siddiqui is a columnist for the Toronto Star. He is a former editorial page editor, national editor, news editor and correspondent. He has covered, among other events, the Soviet invasion and occupation of Afghanistan, the Iranian revolution, the Iran-Iraq war and, lately, the emergence of China and India as global economic powers. He has written extensively on multiculturalism and Canada's changing demography. Author of Being Muslim (2006), a study on the impact of September 11 on Muslims around the world, he is a recipient of both the Order of Canada and the Order of Ontario. Janice Gross Stein is the Belzberg Professor of Conflict Management in the Department of Political Science and the director of the Munk Centre for International Studies at the University of Toronto. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a member of the Order of Canada. She is the author of The Cult of Efficiency (2001) and the coauthor of Networks of Knowledge: Innovation in International Learning (2000) and The Unexpected War: Canada in Kandahar (2007). She is co-editor of Street Protests and Fantasy Parks: Globalization, Culture and Society (2001) and a contributor to Canada by Picasso: The Faces of Federalism (2006). She was the Massey lecturer in 2001 and a Trudeau Fellow. She was awarded the Molson Prize by the Canada Council for an outstanding contribution by a social scientist to public debate. She is an Honorary Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2006, she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Laws by the University of Alberta and the University of Cape Breton. Michael Valpy is a senior writer for The Globe and Mail. He began his journalistic career in Vancouver and became associate editor and national affairs columnist of The Vancouver Sun. For The Globe and Mail, he has been a member of the editorial board, Ottawa national political columnist, Africa correspondent, deputy managing editor and a national columnist on social policy and urban issues. He is co-author of two books on the Constitution—The National Deal (1982) and To Match a Dream (1998)—and co-author with Globe colleague Erin Anderssen of The New Canada: A Profile of the Next Generation (2004). He has produced public affairs documentaries for CBC Radio, written for Maclean's, Elm Street, Canadian Living, Literary Review of Canada, Time Canada and Policy Options magazines and won three National Newspaper Awards - two for foreign reporting and one for an examination of how the schools cope with children of dysfunctional families. In 1997, Canada's Trent University awarded him an honorary doctorate for his journalism.

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Book Synopsis Public concern about inequitable economic globalization has revealed the demand for citizen participation in global decision making. Civil society organizations have taken up the challenge, holding governments and corporations accountable for their decisions and actions, and developing collaborative solutions to the dominant problems of our time. Critical Mass: The Emergence of Global Civil Society offers a unique mixture of experience and analysis by the leaders of some of the most influential global civil society organizations and respected academics who specialize in this field of study. Co-published with the Centre for International Governance Innovation Trade Review"If the ideals of worldwide justice and equity are ever to be realized, if our planet and its people are ever to be rescued from shortsightedness and greed, it will only be through the workings of a vibrant international civil society. This groundbreaking book neither exaggerates the promise of such society nor underestimates its problems. Instead, by combining the insights of academics and activists and drawing upon both theory and cases, it illuminates a field of study only beginning to be mined. Both those of us who toil in civil society organizations and those who are affected by them have reason to be grateful." -- William F. Schulz, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress, and former Executive Director, Amnesty International USA -- 200801Table of Contents Critical Mass: The Emergence of Global Civil Society, edited by James W. St.G. Walker and Andrew S. Thompson List of Acronyms Preface John English Acknowledgments Introduction James W. St.G. Walker and Andrew S. Thompson Overview and Theory The Globalization of Civil Society John D. Clark Approaching Global Civil Society Paul van Seters Case Studies The Conference of NGOs (CONGO): The Story of Strengthening Civil Society Engagement with the United Nations Renate Bloem, Isolda Agazzi Ben Attia, and Philippe Dam Amplifying Voices from the Global South: Globalizing Civil Society Rajesh Tandon and Mohini Kak Facilitating NGO Participation: An Assessment of the Government-Sponsored Mechanism for the Copenhagen Summit for Social Development and the Beijing Conference on Women Elizabeth Riddell-Dixon The Arab NGO Network for Development: A Case Study on Interaction between Emerging Regional Networking and Global Civil Society Ziad Abdel Samad and Kinda Mohamadieh A Case of NGO Participation: International Criminal Court Negotiations Gina E. Hill Influencing the IMF Jo Marie Griesgraber Civil Society, Corporate Social Responsibility, and Conflict Prevention Virginia Haufler The FIM G8 Project, 2002-2006: A Case Analysis of a Project to Initiate Civil Society Engagement with the G8 Nigel T. Martin Problems and Prospects Laying the Groundwork: Considerations for a Charter for a Proposed Global Civil Society Forum Andrew S. Thompson Looking to the Future: A Global Civil Society Forum? Jan Aart Scholte Democratizing Global Governance: Achieving Goals while Aspiring to Free and Equal Communication Martin Albrow and Fiona Holland Notes on the Contributors Index Contributors Isolda Agazzi Ben Attia is Senior Program Officer for the Conference of NGOs (CONGO). Isolda holds a masters degree in international relations from the Graduate Institute of International Studies (IUHEI) of Geneva. She has worked for more than ten years in the field of development co-operation, for bi- and multilateral donor agencies, an academic research institute, and NGOs, in Switzerland and on the field, covering socio-economic development and good governance issues. She joined CONGO in 2002, and since 2004 she has also been a lecturer in international law at the University of Calabria (Italy). Martin Albrow is a sociologist whose books include Max Weber's Construction of Social Theory, Do Organizations Have Feelings, Sociology: The Basics, and the prize-winning The Global Age. Formerly he was founding editor of the journal International Sociology, president of the British Sociological Association, and chair of the Sociology Panel for the British universities' Research Assessment Exercise. Emeritus professor of the University of Wales, he is currently a Visiting Fellow in the Centre for the Study of Global Governance in London and an editor in chief of Global Civil Society, 2006/7. Renate Bloem completed her studies in medicine, languages, and literature at the Universities of Bonn, Munich, and Columbia University and started her academic career by teaching at international schools and cultural institutions worldwide. Elected president of the Conference of NGOs in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations (CONGO) in November 2000 and re-elected in December 2003,she has been involved in numerous UN meetings, led CONGO delegations to the World Conference against Racism, to the World Summit on Sustainable Development. Through the CONGO Working Group on Asia she has organized the Asian Civil Society Forum 2002 and 2004 in Bangkok, Thailand, and, together with Latin American NGO networks, the NGO Seminar in Santiago, Chile. Most recently, together with Board member FEMNET, she organized the African Civil Society Forum in Addis Ababa. Together with the CONGO Team she has been at the forefront of guiding, supporting, and coordinating civil society in the processes of the World Summit of the Information Society (WSIS) in Geneva and Tunis. John D. Clark has worked with development NGOs, the World Bank, United Nations, universities, and as advisor to governments on development and civil society issues. His career has focused on poverty reduction, participation, civil society, globalization, and bridging the gap between grassroots organizations and official agencies. He is currently Lead Social Development Specialist for East Asia in the World Bank. He has focused particularly on governance, poverty, and civil society issues in Cambodia and Indonesia and spent eight months in Aceh, Indonesia, working on tsunami reconstruction, especially regarding donor coordination. Before that he took a four-year absence from the World Bank, during which he worked in the United Nations Secretary-General's office (as project director for the high-level panel on UNcivil society relations), was Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics, and served on a task force advising the British prime minister about Africa. He also wrote Worlds Apart: Civil Society and the Battle for Ethical Globalization, published by Kumarian in the US and Earthscan in the UK in 2003. He joined the World Bank in 1992 to head its NGO/Civil Society Unit-leading the Banks global strategy for collaboration and dialogue with civil society. In 1998 he moved to the East Asia region, in particular to help address the social aspects of the Asian economic crisis. Before 1992 he worked in NGOs for eighteen years, mostly with Oxfam UK, where he was head of campaigns and policy. He is the author of four other books, including Democratizing Development: The Role of Voluntary Organizations (1991). Philippe Dam is the associate program officer for the Conference of NGOs (CONGO). Philippe studied administration and public law at Sciences-Po Rennes (France) and holds a master's degree in international administration from the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne. He worked for various agencies within the UN system in Turin, Paris, and Geneva and joined CONGO in December 2004 to work on human rights and WSIS programs. John English is the executive director of the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) and University Research Professor at the University of Waterloo. He is a former president of the Canadian Institute of International Affairs, past chair of the Canadian Museum of Civilization, and served as a Canadian member of parliament. Jo Marie Griesgraber is the executive director of the New Rules for Global Finance Coalition, a Washington-based international network of activists and researchers concerned with reforms of the international financial architecture. Previously, Dr. Griesgraber was the director of policy at Oxfam America, where she supervised advocacy programs on international trade, humanitarian response, global funding for basic education, and extractive industries. Before that, she directed the Rethinking Bretton Woods Project at the Centre of Concern, a Jesuit-related social justice research centre, where she worked on reform of the World Bank, regional development banks, and the International Monetary Fund. She has taught political science at Georgetown University, Goucher College, and American University, and was the deputy director of the Washington Office on Latin America, a human rights lobby office. She chaired Jubilee 2000/USA's executive committee and edited, with Bernhard Gunter, the five-volume Rethinking Bretton Woods series. Ms. Griesgraber received her PhD in political science from Georgetown University and her B.A. in history from the University of Dayton, Ohio. Virginia Haufler (PhD, Cornell, 1991) is an associate professor of government and politics at the University of Maryland. She is an expert in the fields of international relations, international political economy, and business and world politics. From 1999 to 2000, Dr. Haufler was a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where she directed a program on the role of the private sector in international affairs. She serves as a board member of Women in International Security (WIIS) and is on the advisory committee of the Peace Research Institute, Frankfurt. She recently co-authored the UN Global Compact report Enabling Economies of Peace: Public Policy for Corporate Conflict-Sensitive Practices. Among her other publications are A Public Role for the Private Sector: Industry Self-Regulation in a Global Economy (2001); “Is There a Role for Business in Conflict Management?” in Turbulent Peace (eds. Crocker, Hampson, and Aall, 2001); Private Authority and International Affairs (co-edited with Cutler and Port, 1999); and Dangerous Commerce: Insurance and the Management of International Risk (1997). Gina E. Hill has been a human rights activist since 1993 and was called to the Bar in 2001. Her areas ofspecialization are international human rights and non-governmental organizations. Currently completing her LL.D. at the University of Ottawa, Ms. Hill's research examines the cases of the Ottawa Process for a Landmines Treaty and the negotiations for the International Criminal Court. Ms. Hill is president of the board of directors of Amnesty International Canada. She has lived, studied, and worked in six countries and speaks five languages fluently. Fiona Holland is managing editor of the Global Civil Society Yearbook at the London School of Economics' Centre for the Study of Global Governance. Prior to joining LSE, where she completed a master's degree in development studies in 1999, she was editor of Orbit, which in 2001 won “best magazine” in the One World Media Awards, the most respected prize for international development coverage in the UK. In addition to various editing and reporting roles in Asia and the UK, Fiona has project-managed public awareness campaigns and curated photographic exhibitions on cultural exchange, Northern perceptions and portrayals of developing countries, and the notion of global risk. Currently she is working on an exhibition of political cartoons, linked to the forthcoming publication of Global Civil Society 2007/8, and collaborating on a multi-pronged initiative exploring sexuality and intimacy. Mohini Kak is a practitioner scholar with the experience of working on issues of local self-governance, civil society building, and women's empowerment. She is an integral part of the Systematization of Knowledge team of the Society for Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA). She holds a master's in social work with a specialization in urban and rural community development from the Tata Institute for Social Sciences, and her first attempt at bridging the world of a practitioner and an academician came in 2006 when she presented a paper at the 4th International Conference on Citizenship and Participation in Jaipur, India, based on her experience of working on the issue of civil society and local self-governance in the State of Himachal Pradesh, India. She has also worked on issues relating to gender and development. She is co-editor of Citizen Participation and Democratic Governance: In Our Hands, published by Concept Publications in February 2007. Nigel T. Martin is the founding president of the Montreal International Forum (FIM), an international NGO think tank based in Montreal. FIM is a global alliance of individuals and organizations with the goal of improving the influence of international civil society on the United Nations and the multilateral system. A graduate of Mount Allison University, Mr. Martin has over thirty years experience in the NGO community in Canada and elsewhere and has been the executive director of several NGOs. These include the Canadian Council for International Co-operation (CCIC) in Ottawa, Euro Action Accord in London (UK), and OCSD and Oxfam-Québec in Montreal. He began his career with the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) in 1971, where he was one of the earliest staff members of the then-fledgling NGO program. Before leaving the government in 1975 for a career in the NGO sector, he was the director of Asia programming for the CIDA NGO division. Mr. Martin was the initiator and founding co-president of the original World Bank/NGO Committee. He has served on several boards of directors and is currently on the boards of the Carold Foundation in Toronto. He is also a founding board member of The Mothers' Trust. Kinda Mohamadieh serves as the program manager at the Arab NGO Network for Development (ANND). ANND brings together twenty-seven NGOs and seven national networks from eleven Arab countries active in the fields of social development, human rights, gender, and the environment.The network aims to develop the capacity of Arab civil society organizations and promoting democracy, human rights, participation, and good governance within civil society and among governments. The networks' programs focus on issues of development, mainly the Millennium Development Goals; democracy and human rights; and the socio-economic impact of trade liberalization in the Arab region. Miss Mohamadieh has academic training in economics at the undergraduate level and in international development and non-profit management at the graduate level. Throughout her work at ANND, she concentrated on trade and globalization issues and capacity building of civil society organizations in relation to the work being done within the scope of the World Trade Organization, Euro-Mediterranean Partnership, bilateral free trade agreements, and regional economic integration. She participated in writing several papers concerning the role and the challenges of civil society organizations in the Arab region, particularly in the above-mentioned fields of ANND's concern. Elizabeth Riddell-Dixon is a professor of international relations and former chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of Western Ontario. Her publications include five books, Canada and the Beijing Conference on Women: Governmental Politics and NGO Participation (author, 2001), The State of the United Nations, 1993: North-South Perspectives (co-author, 1993), International Relations in the Post-Cold War Era (co-editor, 1993), Canada and the International Seabed: Domestic Determinants and External Constraints (author, 1989), and The Domestic Mosaic: Interest Groups and Canadian Foreign Policy (author, 1985), as well as articles in Global Governance, the International Social Science Journal, Canadian Journal of Political Science, International Journal, Canadian Foreign Policy, Journal of Comparative and Commonwealth Politics, and Journal of Estuarine and Coastal Law. She is currently on the board of directors of the London Museum of Ontario Archaeology. She has served on the executive board of the Canadian Political Science Association (2005-2006), board of directors of the Canadian Political Science Association (2004-2006), and the editorial board of Canadian Foreign Policy (1993-2005). She was co-director of the Summer Workshop Program of the Academic Council on the United Nations System (2004-2005), chair of the Academic Committee of the Board of Directors of the Lester B. Pearson Canadian International Peacekeeping Centre (1998-2003), chair of the International Organization Section of International Studies Association (1998-2003), and vice-president of the Academic Council on the United Nations System (1991-1993). Ziad Abdel Samad is the executive director of the Arab NGO Network for Development (ANND), based in Beirut, since 1999. ANND brings together twenty-seven NGOs and seven national networks from eleven Arab countries active in the fields of social development, human rights, gender, and the environment. The network, established in 1997, focuses on developing the capacity of Arab civil society organizations and promoting democracy, human rights, participation, and good governance in civil society and among governments. It has been an active participant in a number of United Nations conferences, WTO negotiations, and the World Social Forum. Mr. Abdel Samad is a member of the Lebanese Negotiating Committee for the accession in the WTO. He sits on the International Council of the World Social Forum and the Coordination Committee of Social Watch, an international network of citizen coalitions that monitors the implementation of the commitments made at the 1995 World Summit on Social Development in Copenhagen. Mr. Abdel Samad is a member of the board of directors of CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation. He is a member of the UNDP CSO Advisory Committee to the Administrator. Mr. Abdel Samad is general manager of the Centre for Developmental Studies (MADA), a Lebanese centre for social and economic studies and research. Jan Aart Scholte is professor in the Department of Politics and International Studies and co-director of the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation at the University of Warwick. He held previous posts at the University of Sussex, Brighton, and the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, as well as visiting positions at Cornell University, the London School of Economics, the International Monetary Fund, the Moscow School of Economics, and Gothenburg University. He is author of Globalization: A Critical Introduction (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2005, 2nd edition), Civil Society and Global Democracy (Polity, forthcoming), and International Relations of Social Change (Open University Press, 1993); co-author of Contesting Global Governance (Cambridge University Press, 2000); editor of Civil Society and Accountable Global Governance (forthcoming), and Civil Society and Global Finance (Routledge, 2002); co-editor of The Encyclopaedia of Globalization (Routledge, 2006); and author of some 100 articles, chapters, and working papers. He is also an editor of the journal Global Governance. His current research focuses on questions of governing a more global world, with particular emphasis on questions of building global democracy. Rajesh Tandon is president of PRIA (Society for Participatory Research in Asia). He was co-founder of PRIA in 1982 following his tenure as Fellow, Public Enterprise Centre for Continuing Education, New Delhi. Over the last twenty-five years, Dr. Tandon has been a practitioner of participatory research and development and become an internationally acclaimed leader in the area. His work has been, over a wide variety of themes, to strengthen the capacities and institutional mechanisms of voluntary development organizations in India and other developing nations. He specializes in development management; training of trainers in participatory monitoring; networking, coalition and alliance building; participation and governance. He is the chair on the board of many national and international civil society organizations and part of the founding board of directors of CIVICUS. He is also chair of Montreal International Forum (FIM). He has authored many books and articles on civil society and governance. He was recently awarded a Social Justice medal by the Institute of Gender Justice and NALSA, Department of Law & Justice, Government of India, on the International Womens Day, 2007. Andrew S. Thompson is a Special Fellow with the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) in Waterloo, Canada. He holds a PhD in history from the University of Waterloo, and his areas of specialization include human rights and international governance. He has written a number of book chapters and is co-editor of Haiti: Hope for a Fragile State (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2006). He has also written reports for the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs, the United Nations University Press, the Canadian International Council, and the Centre for Foreign Policy and Federalism. Prior to pursuing his doctoral studies, he worked for Amnesty Internationals Canadian Section in Ottawa, and in 2004 he represented the organization as a member of a human rights lobbying and fact-finding mission to Haiti. Paul van Seters studied law at Utrecht University and sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. Currently he is the director of Globus and a professor of globalization and sustainable development at TiasNimbas Business School at Tilburg University, The Netherlands. Previously he was a professor of legal sociology in the Faculty of Law at Tilburg University. He has published articles and books on socio-legal theory, public administration, and cultural sociology. His current research interests include law and communitarianism, corporate social responsibility, and the global civil society. He is co-editor of Globalization and Its New Divides (2003) and editor of Communitarianism in Law and Society (2006). James W. St.G. Walker is a professor of history at the University of Waterloo, where he specializes in the history of human rights and race relations. In 2003-2004 he was the Bora Laskin National Fellow in Human Rights Research. His books include The Black Loyalists (2nd edition, 1992), and Race, Rights and the Law in the Supreme Court of Canada (Osgoode Society and Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1997), and he has published numerous articles and book chapters analyzing campaigns for human rights reform. Walker has himself been intimately involved with civil society over the years. In the 1960s he served as a CUSO volunteer in a Gandhian Ashram in the state of Orissa in India, where he participated in community development projects, and later worked on the CUSO national staff in Ottawa. He was a founder and teacher in the Transition Year Program for African-Canadian and First Nations students at Dalhousie University, and a founder and long-time board member of the Global Community Centre of Kitchener-Waterloo. He has served on the boards of several NGOs with an international focus, including CUSO and the Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute.

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Book Synopsis“Lovett diligently and helpfully ranges forward and backward in time from the 1960s to place his subject in a much larger historical context.” —Choice

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Book SynopsisPeace in the Mountains analyzes student activism at the University of Pittsburgh, Ohio University, and West Virginia University during the Vietnam War era. Drawing from a wide variety of sources including memoirs, periodicals, archival manuscript collections, and college newspapers such as The Pitt News, author Thomas Weyant tracks the dynamics of a student-led campus response to the war in real time and outside the purview of the national media. Along the way, he musters evidence for an emerging social and political conscience among the student bodies of northern Appalachia, citing politics on campus, visions of patriotism and dissent, campus citizenship, antiwar activism and draft resistance, campus issues, and civil rights as major sites of contention and exploration.Through this regional chronicle of student activism during the Vietnam War era, Weyant holds to one reoccurring and unifying theme: citizenship. His account shows that political activism and civic engagement were by no means reserved to students at elite colleges; on the contrary, Appalachian youth were giving voice to the most vexing questions of local and national responsibility, student and citizen identity, and the role of the university in civil society. Rich in primary source material from student op-eds to administrative documents, Peace in the Mountains draws a new map of student activism in the 1960s and early 1970s. Weyant’s study is a thoughtful and engaging addition to both Appalachian studies and the historiography of the Vietnam War era and is sure to appeal not only to specialists—Appalachian scholars, political historians, political scientists, and sociologists—but to college students and general readers as well.

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Book SynopsisIn June 1972, President Richard Nixon put pen to paper and signed the Educational Amendments of 1972 into law. The nearly 150-page document makes no mention of “gender,” “athletics,” “girls,” or “women.” The closest reference to “sport” is transportation. In fact, the bill did not appear to contain anything earth shattering. But tucked into its final pages, a heading appears, “Title IX—Prohibition of Sex Discrimination.” These 37 words would change the world for girls and women across the United States. On its face, Title IX legally guaranteed equal opportunity in education. In time, Title IX would serve as the tipping point for the modern era of women’s sport. Slowly but surely, women’s athletics at the high school and collegiate levels grew to prominence, and Tennessee fast emerged as a national leader. In Title IX, Pat Summitt, and Tennessee’s Trailblazers, Mary Ellen Pethel introduces readers to past and present pioneers—each instrumental to the success of women’s athletics across the state and nation. Through vibrant profiles, Pethel celebrates the lives and careers of household names like Pat Summitt and Candace Parker, as well as equally important forerunners such as Ann Furrow and Teresa Phillips. Through their lived experiences, these fifty individuals laid the foundation for athletic excellence in Tennessee, which in turn shaped the national landscape for women’s sports. The book also provides readers with a fuller understanding of Title IX, as well as a concise history of women’s athletics in the pre- and post-Title IX eras. With interviewees ranging from age 20 to 93, Pethel artfully combines storytelling with scholarship. Guided by the voices of the athletes, coaches, and administrators, Pethel vividly documents achievement and adversity, wins and losses, and advice for the next generation. This book represents the first statewide compilation of its kind—offering readers a behind-the- scenes perspective of Tennessee women who dedicated their lives to the advancement of sport and gender equality. Readers will delight in Title IX, Pat Summitt, and Tennessee’s Trailblazers: 50 Years, 50 Stories.Trade ReviewWhether gold medalists, NCAA champions, legendary coaches, or pioneering athletes and administrators, Tennessee has been home to an incredible vanguard of women in sports. Mary Ellen Pethel brings us the stories of women whose accomplishments continue to pave the way for generations to come. This is a valuable collection, an important book, and a timely tribute on this fiftiethanniversary of Title IX."— Andrew Maraniss, bestselling author of Strong Inside: Perry Wallace and the Collision of Race and Sports in the South and Inaugural Ballers: The True Story of the First U.S. Women’s Olympic Basketball Team. "Whether gold medalists, NCAA champions, legendary coaches, or pioneering athletes and administrators, Tennessee has been home to an incredible vanguard of women in sports. Mary Ellen Pethel brings us the stories of women whose accomplishments continue to pave the way for generations to come. This is a valuable collection, an important book, and a timely tribute on this fiftiethanniversary of Title IX."—Andrew Maraniss, bestselling author of Strong Inside: Perry Wallace and the Collision of Race and Sports in the South and Inaugural Ballers: The True Story of the First U.S. Women’s Olympic Basketball Team

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Book SynopsisGlobalization has given rise to new meanings of citizenship. Just as they are tied together by global production, trade and finance, citizens in every nation are linked by the institutions of global governance, bringing new dynamics of inclusion and exclusion. For some, globalization provides a sense of solidarity that inspires them to join transnational movements to claim rights from global authorities; for others, globalization has meant greater exposure to the power of global corporations, bureaucracies and scientific experts, thus adding new layers of exclusion to already fragile meanings of citizenship. Globalizing Citizens presents expert analysis from cities and villages in India, South Africa, Nigeria, the Philippines, Kenya, the Gambia and Brazil to explore how forms of global authority shape and build new meanings and practices of citizenship, across local, national and global arenas.Trade Review'Fascinating, original, painstakingly crafted case studies from diverse contexts are combined with probing conceptual reflections on the nature of rights and duties in today's more global society. Globalizing Citizenship develops a crucial and exciting agenda for the future.' Jan Aart Scholte, London School of Economics 'Through a collection of rich case studies, Gaventa and Tandon’s book insightfully explores the politics of mobilisation, the politics of intermediation and the politics of knowledge involved in ‘local’, ‘national’ and ‘global’ citizen action. The cases offer the reader realistic accounts of both global actions that have built solidarity and challenged the powerful, whilst also illustrating that sometime global citizen actions result in a reinforcement of powerful forces.' Helen Yanacopulos, The Open UniversityTable of Contents Part I: Introduction1. Citizen engagements in a globalising world - John Gaventa and Rajesh Tandon Part II: From Global to Local: the impact of global governance on everyday citizenship 2. Mediated health citizenships: Living with HIV and engaging with the Global Fund in the Gambia - Rebecca Cassidy and Melissa Leach 3. Mobilising and mediating global medicine and health citizenship: the politics of AIDS knowledge production in rural South Africa - Steven Robins 4. Enhancing everyday citizenship practices: women's livelihoods and global markets - Julie Thekkudan 5. The politics of global assessments: the case of the International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD) - Ian Scoones Part III: From Local to Global: the dynamics of transnational citizen action 6. Campaigns for land and citizenship rights: the dynamics of transnational agrarian movements - Saturnino M. Borras and Jennifer C. Franco 7. Spanning citizenship spaces through transnational coalitions: the case of the Global Campaign for Education - John Gaventa and Marjorie Mayo 8. Citizenship and trade governance in the Americas - Rosalba Icaza, Peter Newell and Marcelo Saguier 9. Mobilization and political momentum: Anti-asbestos struggles in South Africa and India' - Linda Waldman 10. Hybrid Activism: paths of the globalization in the Brazilian environmental movement - Alonso 11. Caught between national and global jurisdictions: Displaced people's struggle for rights - Lyla Mehta and Rebecca Napier-Moore

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