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Global Civil Society
Global Civil Society

New York University
School of Continuing and Professional Studies
M.S. Program in Global Affairs
GLOBI-GC 1050.001
Spring 2013
Wednesdays, 9:30-12:10 pm
Woolworth 237
February 6 – May 10

Professor Colette Mazzucelli, MALD, EdM, PhD http://blogs.nyu.edu/blogs/cgm7/globalaffairsmatters/ cgm7@nyu.edu
(212) 992-8380 (Global Affairs Program)

Pedagogical and Technological Assistance to Dr. Mazzucelli

Miss Nadiya Kostyuk
Mrs. Janeska Soares Sadowski
Mr. Sam Tyler Powers

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Course Description: This course analyzes and assesses the emergence of new political and social activities, which have developed beyond traditional experiences and parameters of the nation state. In this learning community, we question the definition of “Global Civil Society,” particularly as identified with non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Developments in communications technology and social media since the end of the Cold War lead us to examine the ways in which novel, unprecedented interactions developed outside hierarchies in traditional organizations thereby empowering individuals with agency in global affairs and offering diffuse networks a role in social protest movements around the world, particularly in the Middle East.

Course modules explore the interplay between local experiences and the indigenous quest for voice to articulate narratives that relate context specificity and the nascent minimal consensus emerging around what constitutes global civil society. Modules are designed around local experiences with the struggle for gender equality, human rights in contested elections in which violence ensues, efforts to address HIV-AIDS as a local and global health concern, as spearheaded by Ekta Transglobal, domestic violence in developing counties, local initiatives by community leaders of the Baha’i Faith that demonstrate transnational societal activism to combat mass poverty as part of the adherence to world federalist



Bibliography: o Margaret E. Keck and Kathryn Sikkink. Activists beyond Borders. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1998, pp. 39-78. ▪ Jeremi Suri. Power and Protest. Global Revolution and the Rise of Détente. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2005. o Margaret E. Keck and Kathryn Sikkink. Activists beyond Borders. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1998, pp. 165-98. o Jeremi Suri. The Global Revolutions of 1968. (A Norton Casebook in History) New York/London: W.W. Norton & Company, 2007, pp. 141-58. o Jan Willem Duyvendak. The Politics of Home. Houndmills Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, pp. 43-61. o Don Eberly. The Rise of Global Civil Society. New York: Encounter Books, 2008, pp. 277-289.

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