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The dawn of the twenty first century has been accompanied by an upsurge of anti-capitalist campaigning, challenging the very basis of the New World Economic order. This book sets out to explore the lessons from these experiences of social mobilization. How can non-governmental organizations, community based organizations and the labor and trade union movement develop effective campaigning alliances--without becoming institutionalized and incorporated themselves? How can they balance immediate gains and longer term strategies for transformation? How can they gain media attention without losing control of the message? And how can social movements develop organizational forms that are genuinely representative and democratically accountable, globally? Mayo explores these questions through case studies, and concludes with lessons for building global challenges to neo-liberal agendas and developing more transformative approaches.
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Critical praise for this book
‘Marjorie Mayo has added another highly important contribution to her wide-ranging canon on the struggles for ordinary people’s and communities’ empowerment. This powerful book provides an analysis of how they can respond to globalization – over key issues such as debt, gender rights, education and poverty – and examples of how they have done so.’ – Gary Craig, Professor of Social Justice, Hull University, and President of the International Association for Community Development ‘In clear and accessible language, Mayo brilliantly outlines key theoretical debates about globalization, democracy and social movements, linking them to concrete case studies of citizen action. In so doing, she poses and explores critical contemporary issues of how to build sustainable challenges to global power through grassroots action. This book is a must for all of those seeking to understand how to build progressive movements for human rights and social justice in the twenty-first century.’ – John Gaventa, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex and co-editor Global Citizen Action About the author
Dr Marjorie Mayo is Head of Professional and Community Education at Goldsmiths College, University of London. Educated at St Hilda’s, Oxford, the London School of Economics, and South Bank University, she is the author and editor of numerous scholarly books in the fields of community action and adult education. Her single- authored books include Imagining Tomorrow: Adult Education for Transformation (NIACE, 1997), Cultures, Communities, Identities: Cultural Strategies for Participation and Empowerment (Macmillan, 2000), and (co-edited with Gary Craig) Community Participation and Empowerment: A Reader in Participation and Development (Zed Books, 1995).
Global Citizens Social movements and the challenge of globalization
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Global Citizens: Social movements and the challenge of globalization was first published by Zed Books Ltd, 7 Cynthia Street, London 1 9 , and Room 400, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, 1010, in 2005. www.zedbooks.co.uk Copyright © 2005 Marjorie Mayo Cover designed by Andrew Corbett Set in Monotype Dante and Gill Sans Heavy by Ewan Smith, London Printed and bound in Malta by Gutenberg Press Ltd Distributed in the exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of St Martin’s Press, , 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, 1010 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
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