BOOK
Globalizing Citizens
Marjorie Mayo | Melissa Leach | Angela Alonso | Rajesh Tandon | Ian Scoones | Saturnino M. Borras | Steven Robins | Peter Newell CSGR | Rosalba Icaza | Rebecca Cassidy | Rebecca Napier-Moore | Jennifer C. Franco | Julie Thekkudan | Linda Waldman | Lyla Mehta | Marcelo Saguier | John Gaventa | Rajesh Tandon
(2010)
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Abstract
Globalization 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.
Rajesh Tandon is the founder and executive director of PRIA (Society for Participatory Research in Asia), and has been an activist-scholar for the past three decades, focusing on issues such as citizenship and participatory governance, participatory research and building civil society alliances. In addition to his writing and scholarship, he has served as a civil society leader in India and internationally, including serving as a founding member and chair of CIVICUS, programme director of the Citizens and Governance Programme of the Commonwealth Foundation and chair of the Montreal International Forum (FIM). He has been active participant in the Development Research Centre on Citizenship, Participation and Accountability and served as co-convenor of the working group on globalising citizen engagements.
John Gaventa is a Research Professor and Fellow in the Participation, Power and Social Change Team at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex. A political sociologist by training, he has written widely on issues of power, citizen action, participation and democracy, including the award winning Power and Powerlessness in an Appalachian Valley (1980) and Global Citizen Action (2001). He also has been active with a number of NGOs and civil society organisations internationally, including the Highlander Centre in the United States and Oxfam in the UK. He is the director of the Development Research Centre on Citizenship, Participation and Accountability and served as co-convenor of the working group on globalising citizen engagements.
'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 University
Table of Contents
Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
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About the series\r | i | ||
About the editors | ii | ||
Acronyms | vii | ||
Foreword | x | ||
PART ONE | Introduction | 1 | ||
1 | Citizen engagements in a globalizing world | 3 | ||
Introduction | 3 | ||
The changing nature of governance: new spaces for citizen engagements? | 5 | ||
The implications of changing authorities for the meanings and practices of citizenship | 8 | ||
Navigating the global terrain | 15 | ||
Conclusions and implications | 24 | ||
Notes | 27 | ||
References | 28 | ||
PART TWO | From global to local: the impact of global governance on everyday citizenship | 31 | ||
2 | Mediated health citizenships: living with HIV and engaging with the Global Fund in the Gambia | 33 | ||
Introduction | 33 | ||
The Global Fund and shifting health governance structures | 35 | ||
Global AIDS funding in the Gambia | 39 | ||
Treatment support groups and citizen engagement with the Global Fund | 43 | ||
Conclusions | 50 | ||
Notes | 53 | ||
References | 54 | ||
3 | Mobilizing and mediating global medicine and health citizenship: the politics of AIDS knowledge production in rural South Africa | 56 | ||
Introduction | 56 | ||
Global health and AIDS activism in South Africa | 58 | ||
Global medicine in local places: the contentious politics of AIDS knowledge | 61 | ||
MSF’s biomedical foot soldiers in Lusikisiki village | 63 | ||
Mediators of global medicine and contested ‘facts’ | 67 | ||
Conclusion | 75 | ||
Notes | 76 | ||
References | 77 | ||
4 | Enhancing everyday citizenship practices: women’s livelihoods and global markets | 79 | ||
Introduction | 79 | ||
Towards a more inclusive global governance | 80 | ||
Project Shakti: a market-led solution for enhancing women’s livelihoods | 82 | ||
Economic augmentation for rural women | 84 | ||
Enhanced formal citizenship but limited empowerment | 85 | ||
Spaces for representation and its legitimacy | 87 | ||
Accountability of different actors | 89 | ||
Inclusion and exclusion | 91 | ||
Conclusion | 92 | ||
Notes | 93 | ||
References | 95 | ||
5 | The politics of global assessments: the case of the IAASTD | 96 | ||
Introduction | 96 | ||
The International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology (IAASTD) | 97 | ||
Globalization and civil society: the place of international assessments | 98 | ||
Experts and citizens | 99 | ||
The politics of knowledge in global assessments | 105 | ||
Conclusion | 110 | ||
Notes | 112 | ||
References | 114 | ||
PART THREE | From local to global: the dynamics of transnational citizen action | 117 | ||
6 | Campaigns for land and citizenship rights: the dynamics of transnational agrarian movements | 119 | ||
Introduction | 119 | ||
The emergence of transnational agrarian movements (TAMs) | 121 | ||
The nature of the state | 124 | ||
The politics of mobilization | 126 | ||
The politics of intermediation | 130 | ||
Knowledge politics | 133 | ||
Conclusion | 135 | ||
Notes | 137 | ||
References | 137 | ||
7 | Spanning citizenship spaces through transnational coalitions: the Global Campaign for Education | 140 | ||
Introduction | 140 | ||
Who governs education? Power across boundaries | 141 | ||
The challenges of building transnational campaign coalitions | 144 | ||
The case of the Global Campaign for Education | 145 | ||
Five factors that make a difference to success | 147 | ||
Implications for citizenship | 153 | ||
Conclusions | 156 | ||
Notes | 160 | ||
References | 161 | ||
8 | Citizenship and trade governance in the Americas | 163 | ||
Introduction | 163 | ||
The shifting landscape of trade governance in the Americas: implications for citizenship | 165 | ||
The politics of mobilization on trade governance | 170 | ||
Conclusions | 177 | ||
Notes | 181 | ||
References | 182 | ||
9 | Mobilization and political momentum: anti-asbestos struggles in South Africa and India | 185 | ||
The shifting nature of global authority | 186 | ||
The asbestos industry | 187 | ||
Table 9.1 Schematic comparison of anti-asbestos activism in India and South Africa | 188 | ||
Anti-asbestos mobilization | 189 | ||
Conclusion: anti-asbestos mobilization and possibilities for citizen agency | 205 | ||
Notes | 207 | ||
References | 208 | ||
10 | Hybrid activism: paths of globalization in the Brazilian environmental movement | 211 | ||
Changing patterns of mobilization | 211 | ||
Trajectories of mobilization | 213 | ||
The local–global path: the ISA case | 218 | ||
Politics of intermediation | 221 | ||
Hybrid activism | 226 | ||
Notes | 229 | ||
References | 230 | ||
11 | Caught between national and global jurisdictions: displaced people’s struggle for rights | 232 | ||
Citizenship and displacement in a globalizing world | 232 | ||
Who is responsible anyway? | 233 | ||
How do displaced people defy conventional notions of citizenship? | 235 | ||
Global citizens? | 245 | ||
Notes | 249 | ||
References | 250 | ||
About the contributors | 253 | ||
Index | 258 |