[Asia_news] Reminder: IR Seminar - 12 October 2006 @ 12 noon
Intrel
intrel at coombs.anu.edu.au
Mon Oct 9 10:52:32 EST 2006
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
CRICOS Provider: 00120C
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