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Transforming Globalization : Challenges and Opportunities in the Post 9/11 Era.
Title:
Transforming Globalization : Challenges and Opportunities in the Post 9/11 Era.
Author:
Podobnik, Bruce.
ISBN:
9789047408154
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (211 pages)
Contents:
The Effort to Transform Globalization: Historical and Contemporary Struggles (BRUCE PODOBNIK AND THOMAS REIFER) -- From "Anti-Globalization" to the Global Justice Movement: Framing Collective Action Against Neoliberalism (JEFFREY AYRES) -- Exploring Connections Between Global Integration and Political Mobilization (JACKIE SMITH) -- Resistance to Globalization: Cycles and Trends in the Globalization Protest Movement (BRUCE PODOBNIK) -- Taking to the Streets Against Neoliberalism: Global Days of Action and Other Strategies (LESLEY WOOD) -- The Workers' Party and the World Social Forum: Challenges of Building a Just Social Order (GIANPAOLO BAIOCCHI) -- Trajectories of Indigenous Resistance Before and After 9/11 (THOMAS HALL AND JAMES FENELON) -- From Anti-Sweatshop, to Global Justice, to Anti-War: Student Participation in Globalization Protests (ROBERT J.S. ROSS) -- Blue-Green Coalitions: Constraints and Possibilities in the Post 9/11 Political Environment (KENNETH GOULD, TAMMY LEWIS, AND J. TIMMONS ROBERTS) -- Global Social Movements at the Crossroads: An Investigation of Relations Between the Anti-Corporate Globalization and Environmental Movements (FREDERICK BUTTEL AND KENNETH GOULD) -- Torture, Human Rights and the Challenges Facing the Global Peace and Justice Movement (THOMAS REIFER) -- Author Biographical Statements -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
This collection of studies examines the prospects facing the coalition of workers, environmentalists, and other progressive activists that has been created to resist neoliberal forms of globalization in the post 9/11 period.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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