The anti-capitalist dictionary : movements, histories & motivations / David E. Lowes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lowes, David E., 1962-

Contributor:

Bloomsbury (Firm)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economics--Dictionaries.

Economics.

Capitalism--Dictionaries.

Capitalism.

Business--Dictionaries.

Business.

Anti-globalization movement--Dictionaries.

Anti-globalization movement.

Genre:

Dictionaries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 310 pages.)

Place of Publication:

Nova Scotia : Fernwood ; Kuala Lumpur : SIRD ; London ; New York : Zed Books ; New York : Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

The Anti-Capitalist Dictionary is an alternative and a counter-balance to the many political dictionaries that ignore or marginalize the history and influence of anti-capitalist movements. It paints a rich picture of the ideas and issues that inform today's anti-capitalist activity. Anti-capitalism has existed in many forms and with a variety of names since the advent of capitalism. But this kind of oppositional force has often been ignored, misrepresented or trivialized by many in the mainstream media and academia and by established political parties. In the wake of the protests which started in Seattle in 1999, the continuing dissent around the Bush/Blair regimes, and ongoing commitments to neo-liberalism around the world, the movement continues to flourish.

The Anti-Capitalist Dictionary is organized in an easily accessible alphabetical format, with self-contained, cross-referenced entries that introduce and explain concepts and issues that are integral to understanding today's global movement. The dictionary demonstrates how the meaning and relevance of some of these have evolved and illustrates a linkage between past and present activity that might be unfamiliar to people who are involved or interested in the movement's current manifestations. This dictionary has international coverage and will prove invaluable to students of politics as well as to activists and the general reader.

Contents:

Accountability 1

Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) 2

Activism/Activist 5

Advertising 6

Alienation 9

Anarchism 12

Arms Trade 16

Asylum 18

Autonomia 18

Biocentric 20

Biodiversity 20

Biopiracy 21

Biosphere 22

Biotechnology 23

Black Bloc 23

Bourgeoisie 24

Boycott 25

Brand 25

Bretton Woods System 26

Capital Flows 27

Capitalism 28

Child Labour 32

Civil Disobedience 33

Civil Liberties 34

Civil Society 34

Class 35

Collectivism 39

Commodity 40

Communism 41

Consumerism 46

Copyleft 48

Copyright 49

Corporate Lobby Group 50

Corporations 52

Culture 56

Deep Ecology 61

Democracy 61

Deregulation 66

Developing Country 69

Diggers 72

Direct Action 73

Ecology 76

Ecosystem 78

Empire 78

Enrages 82

Environmentalism 83

Equality 85

Exchange Rate 86

Exploitation 89

Export Credits 91

Export-Processing Zones 91

Fair Trade 93

Feminism 93

Floodnet 93

Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) 94

Freedom 95

General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) 98

General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) 99

Genetic Engineering 100

Genuine Progress Indicator 104

Global Commons 104

Global Warming 106

Globalization 108

Green 110

Gross Domestic Product (GDP) 111

Gross National Product (GNP) 113

Group of 8 Industrialized Nations (G8) 113

Hacktivism 115

Haymarket Martyrs 116

Hegemony 117

Hot Money 117

Human Trafficking 118

Ideology 121

Index of Sustainable Welfare 122

Indigenous People 123

Intellectual Property 125

International Debt 127

International Monetary Fund (IMF) 130

Internationalism 133

Justice 136

Keynesian 139

Kyoto Protocol 140

Labour 143

Laissez-Faire 146

Left 146

Levellers 147

Liberalization 148

Liberation 148

Luddite 150

Maoism 152

Maquiladora 153

Market 153

Marxism 156

May Day 160

Media 162

Military-Industrial Complex 165

Monetarism 166

Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI) 168

Multinational Corporation (MNC) 169

Neoliberalism 170

Network 173

New Left 175

Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) 178

North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) 179

Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) 180

Patriarchy 181

Politics 181

Poverty 184

Power 187

Private Property 190

Profit 192

Propaganda 194

Protest 196

Quisling 199

Racism 200

Refugee 202

Regulation 204

Reification 205

Religion 206

Revolution 208

Rights 211

Sex Industry 215

Situationist International 217

Social Forum 218

Social Movement 220

Social Relations 221

Socialism 221

State, the 228

Structural Adjustment Programmes (SAPs) 231

Student Movements 232

Sustainable Development 236

Sweatshop 239

Taxation 240

Terrorism 243

Tobin Tax 246

Trade 250

Trade Mark 253

Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) 253

Trade-Related Investment Measures (TRIMs) 254

Trade Union 255

Transnational Corporations (TNCs) 257

Transparency 258

Trotskyism 259

United Nations (UN) 261

Universal Declaration of Human Rights 265

Utopia 269

Value 271

Workers' Rights 274

World Bank 276

World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) 280

World Social Forum 281

World Trade Organization (WTO) 281

Xenophobia 285

Xenotransplantation 285

Ya Basta 285

Zapatistas 285.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-305) and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Online version: Lowes, David E., 1962- Anti-capitalist dictionary.

ISBN:

9781350222939

1350222933

Publisher Number:

99990100197

9781842776827 (hb ; Zed)

9781842776834 (pb ; Zed)

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