Globalizing resistance : the state of struggle / edited by Fraņcois Polet ; with translations by Victoria Bawtree.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Polet, François.

Bawtree, Victoria.

Centre tricontinental (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social movements.

Anti-globalization movement.

Globalization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (336 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; Ann Arbor, Mich. : Pluto Press in association with the Tricontinental Centre (CENTRI), 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is an indispensable handbook for global activists that takes the reader on a round-the-world tour of resistance to neoliberal globalization.Although the anti-globalization movement is truly global, each region has its own specific groups and agendas. Most books concentrate on the European and American movements. This book is different -- writers and activists from every continent summaries what's going on in their area to provide a truly international view of alternative social and political struggles.From Bolivia to New Zealand, from South Africa to Russia and China, these struggles against capitalism, privatization, social exclusion and exploitation are mobilizing many thousands. Increasingly, these groups are exchanging ideas, particularly at the new Social Forums of Porto Alegre and Mumbai. This book examines what has been achieved so far. The authors examine the World Social Forums as a dynamic for moving things forward. They explore the global anti-war movement and the successful mobilization for the protests of 15th February 2003; they analyse new media strategies; and they offer a disturbing account on new police arrangements to control demonstrators.Edited by Francois Polet, who is a member of the Tricontinental Centre and the World Forum for Alternatives -- a group that plays a prominent role in the World Social Forums -- the book includes contributions from Donatella della Porta, Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Verity Burgmann, Paola Manduca and Bernard Dreano.

Contents:

Political diversity, common purpose : social movements in India / Vinod Raina

Resistance to globalization in rural China / Lau Kin Chi

NGOs and social movements in Southeast Asia / Francis Loh

Central Asia and the Southern Caucasus : US rearguard bases? / Bernard Dreano

Resistance to neoliberalism in Australia and Oceania / Verity Burgmann, Andrew Ure

Social movements in the Arab world / Azza Abd el-Mohsen Khalil

Struggling and surviving in the Democratic Republic of the Congo / François L'Écuyer

Social movements : experiences from East Africa / Opiyo Makoude

South Africa's new social movements / David Coetzee

Neoliberalism and social conflict : the popular movements in Latin America / Clara Algranati ... [et al.]

Proletarian resistance and capitalist restructuring in the United States / Pierre Beaudet

Europe : the challenge for social movements / Bernard Dreano

The World Social Forum : towards a counter-hegemonic globalization / Boaventura de Sousa Santos

The World Social Forum : a democratic alternative / Francine Mestrum

The African Social Forum : between radicals and reformers / Mondli Hlatshwayo

Convergences and the anti-war movement : expereinces and lessons / Paola Manduca

The trade union movement and the social movement : towards a new dialogue? / Pierre Beaudet

The new agrarian issue : three billion peasants under threat / Samir Amin

The alternative movement and its media strategies / Victor Sampedro

The European Union and the 'internal threat' of the alternative world movement / Ben Hayes, Tony Bunyan

Police measures against the new global protest / Donatella della Porta, Herbert Reiter

New powers, new counter-powers / Raoul-Marc Jennar

International law, a decisive issue for the alternative world movement / Monique Chemillier-Gendreau.

Notes:

Translated from the French.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-84964-265-6

1-281-75077-8

9786611750770

1-4356-6212-1

OCLC:

655786357