Latest edition of this internationally renowned yearbook from its UCLA and LSE based editors.

The annualGlobal Civil Society Yearbooks provide an indispensable guide to global civil society or civic participation and action around the world. The 2009Yearbook explores the framings, strategies and impacts of a range of actors on poverty and its alleviation. The overarching question is to whether such actors, in pressing for poverty alleviation actually achieve anything/empower the poor, or simply aid wealthy states in maintaining the status quo. The contributors are diverse, including scholars and practitioners from India, America, the UK, Australia, Thailand, and Mali.

The Global Civil Society Yearbook remains the standard work on all aspects of contemporary global civil society for activists, practitioners, students and academics alike. It is essential reading for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of the key actors, forms and manifestations of global civil society around the world today.

Introduction - Mary Kaldor, Ashwani Kumar & Hakan Seckinelgin
1. Poverty Discourses and Global Civil Society - Harsh Mander, Virginia Xaxa, Lakshmi Lingam & Amita Bhide
2. Global Poverty Statistics and Civil Society - Sally Stares
3. Bringing Justice and Culture Back in: Global Action for Local Livelihoods - Smitu Kothari
4. Global Organisation in Civil Society: the Effects On Poverty - Jan Aart Scholte & Jill Timms
5. Global Civil Society and Budget Participation - Celine Tan
6. Faith-Based Action in Development and Humanitarian Work - Khaled Mansour and Heba Raouf Ezzat
7. Living in the Shadows: Injustice, Racism and Poverty in the India Diaspora - Vinay Lal
8. Economic Migrants, the Banana Supply Chain, and the London Living Wage: Three Cases of Global Civil Society Activism on Poverty - Laurie Berg & Anna Samson, Pamela K Robinson, & Jane Wills
9. Viewing Restricted: [Re]Presenting Poverty - Jessica Dimmock, Mishka Henner, Sharron Lovell, Subhash Sharma & Ali Taptik
10. Global Civil Society Forums and Poverty - Jan Aart Scholte, Renate Bloem, Richard Samans, Kumi Naidoo, Chantana Banpasirichote Wungaeo, Virginia Vargas, Barry Aminata Toure & Chandan Sengupta
Conclusion - Marlies Glasius & Jan Aart Scholte
Introducing Futures Research: Forecasting and Scenarios - Helmut Anheier & Hagai Katz
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Chronology