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Book SynopsisThe concept of Global Civil Society as an ‘imagined global community’ is raising questions that challenge perceptions of a border-free, footloose, global community. The era of ‘hyper-individualism’, accompanied by the virtualization of the public sphere, is offering support for collective action and processes in the face of rising economic and social anxieties, such as inequality, poverty, terrorism, xenophobia, nuclear weapons, and environmental destruction. Global Civil Society is now equipping itself to negotiate with resurrected boundaries, calls for decelerating the flow of people, identity clashes and throwbacks to tribal politics.
Contestations in Global Civil Society examines the ways in which the global community is dealing with heightened destabilization, entering what has been dubbed an ‘Age of Fracture’, and takes a close look at contemporary shifts that accompany the resurrection of multiple normative civil society discourses such as political mobilization, polarization, responsibility, and participation.
What are the contestations within global civil society? What is our current perception of global civil society? How is it coping with the huge changes that are happening all around us? What will global civil society look like in the future?
Table of ContentsForeword. Rekha Saxana
Chapter 1. Introduction: Global Civil Society; Roopinder Oberoi, Jamie P. Halsall, and Michael Snowden
Chapter 2. Unselfishness and Resilience: Social Capital in the context of the pandemic of COVID-19; Ian G. Cook and Paresh Wankhade
Chapter 3. Social Capital, Social Innovation and Social Enterprise: The Virtuous Circle; Roopinder Oberoi, Jamie P. Halsall, and Michael Snowden
Chapter 4. Does Fifth Industrial Revolution Benefit or Trouble the Global Civil Society?; Cátia Miriam Costa, Enrique Martinez-Galán, and Francisco Leandro
Chapter 5. Networked society and Governance: Algorithmic default?; Tom Cockburn
Chapter 6. The end of neoliberalism? The response to COVID19: An Australian geopolitical perspective; Michael Lester and Marie dela Rama
Chapter 7. Civil Society and Environmental Protection in Brazil: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back; Antônio Márcio Buainain and Junior Ruiz Garcia
Chapter 8. Redefining Social Capital and Social Networks in Global Civil Society; Tom Cockburn
Chapter 9. Role of Social Capital and Social Enterprise in China’s Poverty Relief; Sam Yuqing Li and Qingwen Xu
Chapter 10. Conclusion: A Shifting Recognition of Global Civil Society?; Roopinder Oberoi, Jamie P. Halsall, and Michael Snowden
