* This book is based on 10 years of research and is widely regarded as an outstanding contribution to sociology. * Pleyers examines the question of how citizens and civil society can contribute to the building of a fairer, sustainable and more democratic co-existence of human beings in a global wor[...]
Contrary to the view that globalization undermines social agency, 'alter-globalization activists'have developed new ways to become actors in the global age. This book analyses their attempts to answer the major challenges of our time: How can citizens contribute to the building of a fairer co-existe[...]