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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910826359403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; Ann Arbor, Mich., : Pluto Press in association with the Tricontinental Centre (CENTRI), 2004
• ISBN: 1-84964-265-6; 1-281-75077-8; 9786611750770; 1-4356-6212-1
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (336 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): PoletFrançois; BawtreeVictoria
• Disciplina: 303.48/4
• Soggetti: Social movements; Anti-globalization movement; Globalization
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Translated from the French.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.