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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"global civil society"”.
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The marketing of rebellion in global civil society : political insurgencies, international media, and growth of transnational support
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Political Science, 1997.
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Evaluating Human Rights INGOs
… to investigate the possibility of creating a global civil society that would govern itself in order to maintain peace, create global solidarity and achieve human rights. This research investigates the role of nonprofit organizations in developing a global civil society by evaluating U.S.-based …
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Recycling citizenship: infrastructural transformation and access struggles in Dakar's solid waste management system
… livelihoods, the workers draw on their ties to global civil society actors and a transnational advocacy network as they mobilize to defend their access to waste. This study analyzes the workers’ mobilization as a citizenship struggle, given that their claims signify efforts to influence the …
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NGOs & climate change campaigns : understanding variations in motivations and activities of environmental and development organizations
… response, has prompted a growing movement of global civil society actors demanding climate justice. In particular, transnational, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have now developed climate change campaigns that focus on both climate change mitigation and adaptation. However, little study …
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The Confederation Paysanne as 'peasant' Movement: Re-appropriating 'peasantness' for the advancement of organisational interests
… Campesina (1993) and active participant in the Global Justice Movement (the altermondialiste movement in France), the Confederation paysanne (CP) - which literally stands for 'peasant confederation' - has been presented in academic and activist circles as a key player in the struggle against …
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Global Iconic Events: How News Stories Travel Through Time, Space and Media
… examines how a news event may become a global social myth. In order to track this voyage from the particular to the universal, I developed a theoretical concept of "global iconic events." I define global iconic events as news events that are covered extensively and remembered ritually by …
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Neo-orientalism? A critical appraisal of changing Western perspectives: Bernard Lewis, John Esposito and Gilles Kepel
… has been influenced by escalating waves of globalisation and redistributed and reshaped in a different form. To critically appraise this dualism in this new era, three prominent contemporary Western Islamologists, Bernard Lewis, John Esposito and Gilles Kepel, have been selected and …
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Blood money: A grounded theory of corporate citizenship; Myanmar (Burma) as a case in point
… initiatives, nascent policy frameworks, and global civil society action. Corporate engagement with fragile states, and other situations identified as contexts of conflict and/or weak governance, is the subject of scholarly and practitioner research by those with an interest in Corporate …