Creating a Better World: Interpreting Global Civil Society
  • 2004/210 pages
  • A Kumarian Press Book

Creating a Better World:

Interpreting Global Civil Society

Rupert Taylor, editor
Hardcover: $72.00
ISBN: 978-1-56549-189-2
Paperback: $26.50
ISBN: 978-1-56549-188-5
The term "global civil society" has become a catchphrase of our times. But efforts to define and interpret what global civil society actually is have led to ambiguity and dispute. The authors of Creating a Better World present illustrative cases of groups within civil society—from the Seattle and Genoa protesters to transnational grassroots movements such as Slum/Shack Dwellers International—that are creatively meeting the challenges and opportunities of an increasingly interconnected world.
Rupert Taylor most recently served as head of the Department of Political Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand.