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Contexto Internacional, 2012 O presente artigo visa compreender o conceito de sociedade civil global, a partir de um diálogo entre o construtivismo em Relações Internacionais e o pensador francês Michel Foucault.
Victor Coutinho Lage
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L’idée de société civile mondiale
Recherches Sociologiques et Anthropologiques, 2007 The essay explores the evolution of the idea of global civil society and the ways in which it challenges classic concepts of international relations, conceived as relations primarily between states.
Mary Kaldor
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Latin American Perspectives, 2011 Extensive socio-ethnographic fieldwork among nongovernmental organizations, international donor agencies, and Church-related organizations in Chiapas, Mexico, suggests that global civil society—as an imagined terrain of transnational social action—can be viewed both as a site of expanded possibilities for social action and as a source of significant ...
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Civil society and global copyright reform advocacy: incoherent frames as missed opportunities?
Prometheus, 2014 After almost a decade of civil society (CS) efforts aimed at reforming the global intellectual property (IP) system, this study examines whether the paucity in global copyright reform is a result of the failure by civil society to mobilise around an ...
Sherry S. Marcellin, Dick Kawooya
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Global Complexity and Global Civil Society
VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, 2004 This paper argues that recent struggles against neoliberal axioms such as free trade and open markets have led to a militant reframing of global civil society by grassroots social movements. It contests that this struggle to invest the concept of global civil society with transformative potential rests upon an identifiable praxis, a “strange attractor”
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Civil society participation in global governance: Insights from climate politics [PDF]
, 2013 A rather unique feature of global climate negotiations is that most governments allow representatives of civil society organisations to be part of their national delegation.
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Harnessing Fungal Biowelding for Constructing Mycelium‐Engineered Materials
Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.Mycelium‐bound composites (MBCs) offer low‐carbon alternatives for construction, yet interfacial bonding remains a critical challenge. This review examines fungal biowelding as a biocompatible adhesive, elucidating mycelium‐mediated interfacial mechanisms and their role in material assembly. Strategies to optimize biowelding are discussed, highlighting
Xue Brenda Bai +2 more
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Field note from Pakistan floods: Preventing future flood disasters
Jàmbá, 2011 Unusually heavy monsoon rains in Northern Pakistan have caused disproportionate levels of extreme flooding and unprecedented flood losses across the entire Indus River basin.
Marcus Oxley
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Ambiguities of global civil society [PDF]
Review of International Studies, 2003 The concept of an emergent global civil society (GCS), an identifiable public sphere of voluntary association distinct from the architecture of states and markets, has become voguish in some approaches to international relations and international political economy, and in the practices of global governance.
Amoore, L., Langley, P.
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Democracy promotion and civil society [PDF]
, 2007 The annual Global Civil Society Yearbooks provide an indispensable guide to global civil society or civic participation and action around the world. This year, the Yearbook will focus on communicative power and democracy, investigating different forms of
Ishkanian, Armine
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