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.

chapter |14 pages

Introduction

part |2 pages

Part I Power/resistance/movement

part |2 pages

Part II Discourse/identity/culture

chapter 5|16 pages

Lessons from the indigenous

Zapatista poetics and a cultural humanism for the twenty-first century

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

Invoking a Bolivarian geopolitical imagination to construct an alternative regional project and identity