Bottom-Up Politics

MARTIN ALBROW Senior Visiting Fellow at LSE Global Governance, UK HELMUT K. ANHEIER Dean of Hertie School of Governance, Germany DANIELE ARCHIBUGI works at the Italian National Research Council in Rome, Italy, and the University of London, UK VESNA BOJICIC-DZELILOVIC Senior Research Fellow at LSE Global Governance, UK CHRISTINE CHINKIN Professor in International Law at LSE, UK, and William W. Cook Global Law Professor at the University of Michigan Law School, USA MEGHNAD DESAI Emeritus Professor of Economics at LSE, UK MIENT JAN FABER Professor of Citizens' Involvement in War Situations at the Free University Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Visiting Professor at the University of Houston, USA RICHARD FALK Albert G. Milbank Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University, USA, and Visiting Distinguished Professor in Global and International Studies at the University of California, USA ANTHONY GIDDENS Fellow of King's College Cambridge, UK, and Emeritus Professor at LSE, UK DAVID HELD Graham Wallas Chair in Political Science and co-Director of LSE Global Governance, UK MARY MARTIN Research Fellow and Director of Communications for Human Security at LSE Global Governance, UK IAVOR RANGELOV Global Security Research Fellow at LSE Global Governance, UK HEBA RAOUF EZZAT teaches Political Theory at Cairo University, and at the American University in Cairo, Egypt EMMA ROTHSCHILD Director of the Joint Centre for History and Economics , USA/UK, and Professor of History at Harvard University, USA, and a Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge, UK YAHIA SAID Research Fellow at LSE Global Governance, UK SASKIA SASSEN Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and Co-Chair of The Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University, USA GENEVIEVE SCHMEDER Professor of Economics at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers in Paris and the University Paris X Nanterre, France HAKAN SECKINELGIN Senior Lecturer in International Social Policy in the Department of Social Policy, LSE, and Research Associate at LSE Global Governance, UK SABINE SELCHOW Research Fellow at LSE Global Governance, USA MARIKA THEROS Research Officer at LSE Global Governance, UK

Adopting a people-centred perspective to globalization, the authors explore complex, counterintuitive and even unintended forms and consequences of bottom-up politics, going beyond simplistic understandings of ordinary people as either victims or beneficiaries of globalization.Adopting a people-centred perspective to globalization, the authors explore complex, counterintuitive and even unintended forms and consequences of bottom-up politics, going beyond simplistic understandings of ordinary people as either victims or beneficiaries of globalization.