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In Citizenship and Globalization , Liszt Vieira addresses the challenges brought about by globalization, in particular the role of civil society organizations in promoting democracy on a global scale.
This book seeks to articulate three concepts that are usually separated – citizenship, civil society and globalization – and leads to the notion of global civil society and an emerging planetary citizenship as a necessary implication of the globalization process.
The first part focuses on the notion of citizenship, in light of the main theories of law and democracy in modern times. The second part analyzes, from a theoretical and historical perspective, the paradigm of civil society as an autonomous concept, independent of the state and the market, redefining the traditional view of public space. From the perspective of civil society, the third part analyzes globalization as a complex, contradictory, and multidimensional process.
As globalization is generally presented in a Manichean way – on the right, as an economic panacea and the only possible path to development, and on the left, as a diabolical monster that replaces Yankee imperialism – we seek here to criticize it with serenity and firmness, addressing the main aspects of this kaleidoscopic contemporary phenomenon.
Five fundamental dimensions were selected in Citizenship and Globalization : economic-financial, political, social, cultural and environmental – whose understanding is essential for the analysis of new issues related to global governance, given the tendency towards the decline of the national State and the emergence of a global civil society.
“A timely and stimulating work for all who believe in the possibilities of a global citizenship capable of countering an exclusionary and authoritarian globalization.” – Betinho
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