Juris / Fischer / Dumit Networking Futures

The Movements against Corporate Globalization
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8917-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 398 Seiten

Reihe: Experimental Futures

An innovative ethnography of transnational activist networking within the movements against corporate globalization.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Juris, Jeffrey S.

Fischer, Michael M. J.

Dumit, Joseph

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Globalisierung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations and Tables ix

Acknowledgments xi

Abbreviations xv

Introduction: The Cultural Logic of Networking 1

1. The Seattle Effect 27

2. Anti-Corporate Globalization Soldiers in Barcelona 61

3. Grassroots Mobilization and Shifting Alliances 93

4. Performing Networks at Direct-Action Protests 123

5. Spaces of Terror: Violence and Repression in Genoa 161

6. May the Resistance Be as Transnational as Capital! 199

7. Social Forums and the Cultural Politics of Autonomous Space 233

8. The Rise of Independent Utopics 267

Conclusion: Political Change and Cultural Transformation in a Digital Age 287

Appendix 1: Electronic Resources 303

Appendix 2: Pink and Silver Call, Genoa, July 20, 2001 305

Appendix 3: Peoples' Global Action Organisational Principles 307

Appendix 4: World Social Forum Charter of Principles 311

Notes 315

References 349

Index 365

Über Autor(innen)

Jeffrey S. Juris is Assistant Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Arizona State University.