Is the Idea of Global Civil Society Still Attractive? : Local, Global, and Transnational Citizenship in the Era of Anthropocene

Abstract

The idea of a global civil society, so popular at the turn of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, seems to be an unattractive political project today. Due to successive economic, political, and ecological crises and the resulting radicalization of social and political life, we have moved away from the global community towards transnational interests. However, in the era of anthropocene, is it not worth rethinking? Maybe the categories of global responsibility and common good still have the potential to be used? The paper considers the issues of local, global and transnational theories of citizenship and their hermeneutical interpretations in relation to the discourses of anthropocene.

Presenters

Edyta Pietrzak
Institute of Social Science and Management of Technologies, Lodz University of Technology

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Presentation Type

Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

Theme

Politics, Power, and Institutions

KEYWORDS

Global Civil Society, Global Responsibility, Common Good, Anthropocene

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