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Title: Global Citizenship and Social Movements: Creating Transcultural Webs of Meaning for the New Millennium by Janet J. McIntyre-Mills ISBN: 9057025906 Publisher: Taylor & Francis Pub. Date: 01 November, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $47.95

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Summary: Traversing an epistemological divide
Comment: In her book, Global Citizenship and Social Movements, Dr Janet McIntyre-Mills has provided us with a set of conceptual tools that allow us to traverse a previously nullifying epistemological divide. As social creatures we are intimately, and often unknowingly, entwined in (often unsuccessful) attempts to understand and ameliorate our social realities and the social realities of others. We seem not aware of the influences various contexts, processes and knowledge positions have in serving to inform and define our understandings and our collective existences. Most importantly, as social researchers, professionals in the field, or just concerned (global) citizens we have somehow learned to focus on thinking about solving problems by concentrating on their effects. Our concentration on thinking about what we know about the effects of problems in order to solve them rather than asking how we have come to know what we know prevents us from examining the inherent nature of such problems and, therefore, impedes us in the search for productive strategies towards their amelioration.

Dr McIntyre-Mills' conceptual tools allows us insight into separate frameworks of cultural and social values and how to utilise those insights towards the satisfaction of shared human needs. She shows us how people can work with ideas and assumptions, that are not confined and prescribed by orthodoxy, but that actually allow us to move towards a shared sense of destiny and global responsibility. As such, Global Citizenship and Social Movements makes an invaluable contribution to not only our understanding of the nature of human activity within a global context, but most importantly, she has given us a powerful set of conceptual tools for effective, democratic problem solving. I recommend this book to anyone wishing to learn how to better understand the problems societies face and, therefore, to improve quality of life.