This book provides a comprehensive and nuanced analysis of the 'anti-globalisation' struggles taking place around the world. It shows the complexity and diversity of these movements and illustrates this with detailed empirical studies of local, national and transnational resistance in the United States, Europe, Asia and Africa. The authors introduce a variety of competing theoretical perspectives from international political economy, social movement theory, globalisation studies, feminism, and postmodernism, explaining how activism has influenced theory and how theory can help activists to modify their tactics.
Author(s): Catherine Eschle
Edition: 1
Year: 2005
Language: English
Pages: 306
Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 6
Copyright......Page 7
Contents......Page 8
Introduction......Page 20
1 Constructing ‘the anti-globalisation movement’......Page 36
2 In the belly of the beast......Page 55
3 Globalisations, violences and resistances in Mozambique......Page 72
4 Anti-globalisation discourses in Asia......Page 96
5 Lessons from the indigenous......Page 106
6 Contesting the Free Trade Area of the Americas......Page 122
7 Globalisation and the ‘politics of identity’......Page 136
8 Resistance and compromiso at the global frontlines......Page 158
9 Organic intellectuals and counter-hegemonic politics in the age of globalisation......Page 173
10 ‘We are heartbroken and furious!’......Page 193
11 Seattle and the struggle for a global democratic ethos......Page 214
Conclusion......Page 231
Bibliography......Page 246
Index......Page 276
