ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
Part I Power/resistance/movement
chapter 2|17 pages
In the belly of the beast: resisting globalisation and war in a neo-imperial moment MARK RU P E RT
part |2 pages
Part II Discourse/identity/culture
chapter 5|16 pages
Lessons from the indigenous
chapter 6|14 pages
Contesting the Free Trade Area of the Americas: invoking a Bolivarian geopolitical imagination to construct an alternative regional project and identity MARIANNE H . M A RC HAND
chapter 7|20 pages
Globalisation and the ‘politics of identity’: IR theory through the looking glass of women’s reproductive rights activism BICE MAIG UA SHCA
part |2 pages
Part III Politics/strategy/violence