About the series

About the editors

Acronyms

Foreword

PART ONE | Introduction

1 | Citizen engagements in a globalizing world

Introduction

The changing nature of governance: new spaces for citizen engagements?

The implications of changing authorities for the meanings and practices of citizenship

Navigating the global terrain

Conclusions and implications

Notes

References

PART TWO | From global to local: the impact of global governance on everyday citizenship

2 | Mediated health citizenships: living with HIV and engaging with the Global Fund in the Gambia

Introduction

The Global Fund and shifting health governance structures

Global AIDS funding in the Gambia

Treatment support groups and citizen engagement with the Global Fund

Conclusions

Notes

References

3 | Mobilizing and mediating global medicine and health citizenship: the politics of AIDS knowledge production in rural South Africa

Introduction

Global health and AIDS activism in South Africa

Global medicine in local places: the contentious politics of AIDS knowledge

MSF’s biomedical foot soldiers in Lusikisiki village

Mediators of global medicine and contested ‘facts’

Conclusion

Notes

References

4 | Enhancing everyday citizenship practices: women’s livelihoods and global markets

Introduction

Towards a more inclusive global governance

Project Shakti: a market-led solution for enhancing women’s livelihoods

Economic augmentation for rural women

Enhanced formal citizenship but limited empowerment

Spaces for representation and its legitimacy

Accountability of different actors

Inclusion and exclusion

Conclusion

Notes

References

5 | The politics of global assessments: the case of the IAASTD

Introduction

The International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology (IAASTD)

Globalization and civil society: the place of international assessments

Experts and citizens

The politics of knowledge in global assessments

Conclusion

Notes

References

PART THREE | From local to global: the dynamics of transnational citizen action

6 | Campaigns for land and citizenship rights: the dynamics of transnational agrarian movements

Introduction

The emergence of transnational agrarian movements (TAMs)

The nature of the state

The politics of mobilization

The politics of intermediation

Knowledge politics

Conclusion

Notes

References

7 | Spanning citizenship spaces through transnational coalitions: the Global Campaign for Education

Introduction

Who governs education? Power across boundaries

The challenges of building transnational campaign coalitions

The case of the Global Campaign for Education

Five factors that make a difference to success

Implications for citizenship

Conclusions

Notes

References

8 | Citizenship and trade governance in the Americas

Introduction

The shifting landscape of trade governance in the Americas: implications for citizenship

The politics of mobilization on trade governance

Conclusions

Notes

References

9 | Mobilization and political momentum: anti-asbestos struggles in South Africa and India

The shifting nature of global authority

The asbestos industry

Table 9.1 Schematic comparison of anti-asbestos activism in India and South Africa

Anti-asbestos mobilization

Conclusion: anti-asbestos mobilization and possibilities for citizen agency

Notes

References

10 | Hybrid activism: paths of globalization in the Brazilian environmental movement

Changing patterns of mobilization

Trajectories of mobilization

The local–global path: the ISA case

Politics of intermediation

Hybrid activism

Notes

References

11 | Caught between national and global jurisdictions: displaced people’s struggle for rights

Citizenship and displacement in a globalizing world

Who is responsible anyway?

How do displaced people defy conventional notions of citizenship?

Global citizens?

Notes

References

About the contributors

Index