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Anti‐global movements reclaim the city

City, 2007
The paper examines the city as an object of contestation from the point of view of the grassroots. After discussing the city as a transforming field of social movements and grassroots mobilizations from the 19th to the 20th century, it examines the action of the recent anti‐global or alternative global movements on the city.
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Anarchism and the Anti-Globalization Movement

Monthly Review, 2001
Many among today's young radical activists, especially those at the center of the anti-globalization and anti-corporate movements, call themselves anarchists. But the intellectual/philosophical perspective that holds sway in these circles might be better described as an anarchist sensibility than as anarchism per se.
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Anti-globalization movements: The developments in Asia

Contemporary Politics, 2004
The development of neo-liberal globalization and its socio-economic effects has led to the strengthening of social resistance and protest against it both in the 'North' or 'West' and in the 'South' and--to a lesser extent--in the 'East'. This resistance appears in the form of the so-called 'anti-globalization' or 'globalization-critical' movements.
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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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SOME OBSERVATIONS ON THE ANTI‐GLOBALIZATION MOVEMENT

Australian Journal of Social Issues, 2003
Introduction Much of the sociological common knowledge about the current era can be summed up in the claim that globalisation represents the master process and direction of social change. There is a certain kernel of troth to this claim. Since the 1960s, and especially over the last decade, there has arguably been a trend toward an increased sway of ...
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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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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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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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