Munck, Ronaldo (2007) Globalization and Contestation: The New Great Counter-movement,
London: Routledge, pg 75-93.
For this week’s reading I read Chapter 5 “Transnational political fora: actors, issues, and prospects,” from Ronaldo Munck’s book Globalization and Contestation: The New Great Counter-movement. This chapter focused on the idea of transnationalism, along with many different movements, specifically human rights, also the issue of “…whether the humanist universalism implicit in all three movements is adequate to deal with diversity, multiculturalism and the rise of non-Western civilizational projects,” (Munck, 2007, pg 75). This leads to the idea of human rights and how “human beings are deemed to have universal rights regardless
London: Routledge, pg 75-93.
For this week’s reading I read Chapter 5 “Transnational political fora: actors, issues, and prospects,” from Ronaldo Munck’s book Globalization and Contestation: The New Great Counter-movement. This chapter focused on the idea of transnationalism, along with many different movements, specifically human rights, also the issue of “…whether the humanist universalism implicit in all three movements is adequate to deal with diversity, multiculturalism and the rise of non-Western civilizational projects,” (Munck, 2007, pg 75). This leads to the idea of human rights and how “human beings are deemed to have universal rights regardless