Global Civil Society

Speaking in Northern Tongues

Bibliographic Data

ID4501302
AuthorsAfef Benessaieh (corresponding author)
Year2011
Volume38
Issue6
Pages69-90
Publication date2011-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLatin American Perspectives (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0094-582X • E-ISSN: 1552-678X
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0094582x11412499
OpenAlexW2071764748
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited34

Extensive socio-ethnographic fieldwork among nongovernmental organizations, international donor agencies, and Church-related organizations in Chiapas, Mexico, suggests that global civil society-as an imagined terrain of transnational social action-can be viewed both as a site of expanded possibilities for social action and as a source of significant new constraints. It is a terrain where not all ideas and values are heard, promoted, or given legitimacy. There is, however, a transnationally resonant language into which Southern activists need to translate their issues and concerns if they wish to be heard

Action (physics) · Cartography · Civil society · Ethnography · Geography · Legitimacy · Media studies · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Terrain · Wish · Anthropology · Law · Public Administration · Religion and Society Interactions · Religion, Society, and Development · Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development

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