On the Export and Import of Civil Society in Times of Globalisation

Author(s): Julie Ferguson
Publication date: Tuesday 03 May 2005

In this article (udated 2005), Peter Waterman suggests the primacy of radical-democratic social movements, and the necessity for meaningfully global networking and dialogue between such, if we are to develop an understanding of civil society relevant to the era of globalisation. A Post-Seattle Postscript is added, dealing with the challenge this presents to academic thinking on global civil society.

This article is a response to Biekart's book on European funding agencies and civil society construction in Central America (1999), which provides an important contribution to the literature and raises wider questions about the export and import of civil society in times of globalisation. 

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Other publications by the author, 2004 and forthcoming:

1. http://www.choike.org/nuevo_eng/informes/1557.html
2. http://jwsr.ucr.edu/archive/vol10/number1/index.php
3. http://repositories.cdlib.org/cgirs-2004-6
4. http://www.sagepub.co.uk/booktoc.aspx?pid=106208&sc=1
5. http://www.choike.org/documentos/waterman_.pdf
6. http://www.rowmanlittlefield.com/Catalog/SingleBookshtml?command=Search&db=^DB/CATALOG.db&eqSKUdata=0742523969
7. https://secure.metronet.co.uk/pluto/cgi-bin/web_store/web_store.cgi?sc_query_subject=Media%20Studies