Format:
Online-Ressource (372 p.)
ISBN:
9781848600140
Series Statement:
Global Civil Society - Year Books
Content:
The annual Global Civil Society Yearbooks provide an indispensable guide to global civil society or civic participation and action around the world. The 2009 Yearbook explores the framings, strategies and impacts of a range of actors on poverty and its alleviation. The overarching question is to whether such actors, in pressing for poverty alleviation actually achieve anything//empower the poor, or simply aid wealthy states in maintaining the status quo. The contributors are diverse, including scholars and practitioners from India, America, the UK, Australia, Thailand, and Mali. The Global Civ
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
,
COVER; CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE - POVERTY DISCOURSES AND GLOBAL CIVIL SOCIETY; CHAPTER TWO - GLOBAL POVERTY STATISTICS AND CIVIL SOCIETY; CHAPTER THREE - BRINGING JUSTICE AND CULTURE BACK IN: GLOBAL ACTION FOR LOCAL LIVELIHOODS; CHAPTER FOUR - GLOBAL ORGANISATION IN CIVIL SOCIETY THE EFFECTS ON POVERTY; CHAPTER FIVE - GLOBAL CIVIL SOCIETY AND BUDGET PARTICIPATION; CHAPTER SIX - FAITH-BASED ACTION IN DEVELOPMENT AND HUMANITARIAN WORK; CHAPTER SEVEN - LIVING IN THE SHADOWS: INJUSTICE, RACISM AND POVERTY IN THE INDIAN DIASPORA
,
CHAPTER EIGHT - ECONOMIC MIGRANTS, THE BANANA SUPPLY CHAIN, AND THELONDON LIVING WAGE: THREE CASES OF GLOBAL CIVIL SOCIETY ACTIVISM ON POVERTYCHAPTER NINE - VIEWING RESTRICTED: [RE]PRESENTING POVERTY; CHAPTER TEN - GLOBAL CIVIL SOCIETY FORUMS AND POVERTY; CONCLUSION; METHODOLOGY _ INTRODUCING FUTURES RESEARCH: FORECASTING AND SCENARIOS; DATA PROGRAMME; CHRONOLOGY;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781446202562
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781848600140
Additional Edition:
Print version Global Civil Society Yearbook 2009
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
