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Movements of Anti-Globalization

2007
In 1994 the Zapatista’s Mexican insurrection helped name both the enemy — neo-liberal globalization — and the sentiment against it — enough! Taking this cue, the anti-globalization movement (AGM) framed its dissent in this spirit and in these terms.
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The anti-globalization movement in the Philippines

2012
In November 1996, the Philippines hosted the Eighth Annual Summit of the Asia Pacifi c Economic Cooperation (APEC). At least fi ve different parallel and counter-summits were organized, including the Manila’s People’s Forum, the People’s Conference Against Imperialist Globalization and the Asia-Pacifi c Initiative for Sustainable Development.
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The Anti-Globalization Movement and OWS

2013
In this chapter, I sketch out broadly some comparisons and contrasts between OWS and the Anti-Globalization Movement, which came to world attention with the 1999 Seattle protests against the World Trade Organization (WTO).1 As Naomi Klein put it in a speech at Zuccotti Park on October 6, 2011, “That was the last time a global, youth-led, decentralized ...
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Faction in Movement: The Impact of Inclusivity on the Anti‐Globalization Movement^*

Social Science Quarterly, 2004
Objectives.This research examines and evaluates the reasons why the anti‐globalization movement has yet to make significant progress in achieving its primary goals of democratizing international trade negotiation processes.Methods.Data on anti‐globalization protest cycles were collected from news sources for a time period of up to one month that ...
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Linking the web and the street: Internet-based “dotcauses” and the “anti-globalization” movement

World Development, 2006
Summary Dotcauses (Internet-based networks) and the transnational protest movement about globalization are prominent features of contemporary civil society. We argue that these phenomena are related. Dotcauses are important mobilizing structures within the movement, attracting support, coordinating action, and disseminating alternatives.
John D. Clark, Nuno S. Themudo
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Analysing Hegemonic Masculinities in the Anti-Globalization Movement(s)

International Feminist Journal of Politics, 2011
In a commentary on Coleman and Bassi's study of hegemonic masculinities in the British anti-globalization movement, the author brings to bear the scholarship on the gendered culture of the World Social Forum and through this, suggests the importance of contextualizing such studies in particular places and incorporating race, nation and class as salient
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Will the Anti-Globalization Movement Save us from the Globalization Demon? [PDF]

Romanian Economic and Business Review, 2006
Today, anybody is free to protest against anything they please: politics, fashion, the latest movie, education, globalization…. Globalization, a relatively new word in our vocabulary, a word so new that the first versions of Microsoft Word do not even recognize, is a world-wide phenomenon many agree with while some strongly criticize.
Adriana Popescu, Sorina Costache
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Linking Two Eras: The Anti-globalization Movement

2016
An understanding of the anti-globalization movement is crucial, as it links the ethos of the New Left with the movements of today. This chapter examines how globalization and ‘neo-liberalism’ were constructed as a point of reference for social and political movements around the turn of the century and how this gave rise to an international wave of ...
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Anti-globalization movements: from critiques to alternatives

2015
The GJM rose out of the stagflation and lower rates of profit experienced in the Global North by the late 1970s. The 1979 recession in the US and record oil prices combined to create an economic crisis across much of the Global South. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank (WB), as lenders of last resort, offered many crisisridden states
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Gramsci and the “anti-globalization” movement: Think before you act1

Socialism and Democracy, 2006
While the works of Antonio Gramsci have been studied in great depth for a number of years, his central concepts and main arguments can be applied to provide both a framework and understanding for c...
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