ISBN: 9780745646756

Alter-globalization:... - Foreword by Alain Touraine xi Acknowledgements xvii Part 1 Alter-Globalization -- Becoming Actors in the Global Age 1 Introduction 3 From the first uprisings to … More...

Alter-globalization:... - Foreword by Alain Touraine xi Acknowledgements xvii Part 1 Alter-Globalization -- Becoming Actors in the Global Age 1 Introduction 3 From the first uprisings to the global crisis 7 A global movement 10 1 The Will to Become an Actor 16 An actor against neoliberal ideology 16 Social agency in the global age 23 Part 2 The Way of Subjectivity 33 2 The Experience of Another World 35 Resisting through subjectivity 35 Spaces of experience 37 Diversions of experience 54 3 From the Mountains of Chiapas to Urban Neighbourhoods 58 The Zapatistas 58 Barricade social and cultural centre 68 Alter-activist youth 73 From the Zapatistas to alter-activists 88 4 Expressive Movements and Anti-Power 90 A concept of social change 90 A social and subjective engagement 95 Illusions of anti-power and diversions of spaces of experience 96 Facing the political 100 Conclusion 104 Part 3 The Way of Reason 107 5 Expertise for Another World 109 Resisting through reason 109 Spaces of expertise 112 The ambivalence of expertise 123 Conclusion 128 6 Citizens, Experts and Intellectuals 130 Introduction 130 A citizen movement 131 Committed intellectuals 135 Theories of another world and practices of expertise 142 Conclusion 152 7 Reason, Democracy and Counter-Power 154 A movement against neoliberal ideology 154 Rationality at stake 157 Democracy at stake 163 A concept of social change 169 Conclusion 177 Part 4 Confl uence of the Two Paths 179 8 Tensions and Collaborations 181 Common problematics 181 Dichotomization: from tension to opposition 185 Absorption: tension erased by hegemony 191 Combination: tensions and complementarities 193 Conclusion 200 9 The Main Debates 201 Think local and global, act local and global 202 The movement-internal organization 210 Rethinking social change 216 Conclusion 226 10 Towards a Post-Washington Consensus Alter-Globalization 228 Reconfi gurations 228 Towards concrete outcomes 237 Climate justice 251 Conclusion 256 Conclusion 258 Notes 264 Bibliography 280 Index 302 Livre - Roman, Blackwell Publ<

ISBN: 9780745646756

Contrary to the common view that globalization undermines social agency, alter-globalization activists', that is, those who contest globalization in its neo-liberal form, have developed n… More...

Contrary to the common view that globalization undermines social agency, alter-globalization activists', that is, those who contest globalization in its neo-liberal form, have developed new ways to become actors in the global age. They propose alternatives to Washington Consensus policies, implement horizontal and participatory organization models and promote a nascent global public space. Rather than being anti-globalization, these activists have built a truly global movement that has gathered citizens, committed intellectuals, indigenous, farmers, dalits and NGOs against neoliberal policies in street demonstrations and Social Forums all over the world, from Bangalore to Seattle and from Porto Alegre to Nairobi. This book analyses this worldwide movement on the bases of extensive field research conducted since 1999. Alter-Globalization provides a comprehensive account of these critical global forces and their attempts to answer one of the major challenges of our time: How can citizens and civil society contribute to the building of a fairer, sustainable and more democratic co-existence of human beings in a global world? Political Science Political Science eBook, Wiley<

2011, ISBN: 9780745646756

This book is based on 10 years of research and is widely regarded as an outstanding contribution to sociology. Pleyers examines the question of how citizens and civil society can cont… More...

This book is based on 10 years of research and is widely regarded as an outstanding contribution to sociology. Pleyers examines the question of how citizens and civil society can contribute to the building of a fairer, sustainable and more democratic co-existence of human beings in a global world. Buch (fremdspr.) Geoffrey Pleyers gebundene Ausgabe, Polity Press, 01.01.2011, Polity Press, 2011<

2010, ISBN: 9780745646756

This book is based on 10 years of research and is widely regarded as an outstanding contribution to sociology. Pleyers examines the question of how citizens and civil society can cont… More...

This book is based on 10 years of research and is widely regarded as an outstanding contribution to sociology. Pleyers examines the question of how citizens and civil society can contribute to the building of a fairer, sustainable and more democratic co-existence of human beings in a global world. Buch (fremdspr.) Geoffrey Pleyers gebundene Ausgabe, Polity Press, 03.12.2010, Polity Press, 2010<

2010, ISBN: 9780745646756

Becoming Actors in a Global Age, Buch, Hardcover, [PU: Polity Press], Polity Press, 2010