[Asia_news] Reminder: IR Seminar - 12 October 2006 @ 12 noon

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REMINDER!!!



Department of International Relations 

Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies

The Australian National University

 

 

Seminar Series 2006

 

Power, Sovereignty, and Territoriality

 

Thursday, 12 October, 12-2pm

 

Seminar Room B

Coombs Building

 

 

 



Rethinking Global Civil Society



Professor Marc Williams

School of Politics and International Relations

University of New South Wales





The emergence of the concept of global civil society coincided with major changes in world politics.  Like all key concepts in political usage global civil society is an inherently problematic term and from the outset its meaning and relevance have been debated by scholars.  Nevertheless, in the past decade the term has become increasingly used in discussions of globalization and world politics to denote a third sphere or sector separate from the state and market.  In this paper I interrogate the conceptualization of global civil society as an autonomous space in which citizens organize themselves in trans-border voluntary organizations to contest state power and the power of the market.  The paper focuses on the agency of civic actors and the implications of questions of identity, power and inequalities for understanding global civil society.

 

Marc Williams is Professor of International Relations, School of Politics and International Relations, University of New South Wales.





 


Seminar Convenor: Dr Katherine Morton

Inquiries: Ms Amy Chen
Departmental Administrator

Tel: 6125 2166
Email: amy.chen at anu.edu.au


Amy Chen
Departmental Administrator
Department of International Relations
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies
Coombs Building #9
Australian National University
CANBERRA  ACT  0200
AUSTRALIA

Tel:  (61 2) 6125 2166
Fax: (61 2) 6125 8010
URL: http://rspas.anu.edu.au/ir

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