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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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‘Scottish Exceptionalism?’ Trade Unions and the Anti-Apartheid Movement, 1976–1994

Journal of Southern African Studies, 2019
Since the end of apartheid in South Africa in 1994, historians have begun to explore the role played by the various Anti-Apartheid Movements (AAM) that developed globally in the latter half of the 20th century, although much more work remains to be done.
C. Fevre
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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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The anti-fracking movement and the politics of rural marginalization in Lithuania: intersectionality in environmental justice

Environmental Sociology, 2018
While the environmental justice perspective focuses on the unequal distribution of environmental risks and benefits across different groups based on race, class, or gender, intersectionality approaches avoid the use of a priori categories to examine ...
Diana Mincytė, Aistė Bartkienė
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Locating Sexual Rights in the Anti-apartheid Movement: Simon Nkoli and the Making of Post-apartheid Protest Theatre

Critical Arts. A Journal for Cultural Studies, 2018
While the anti-apartheid movement was in many ways one of the moral flagbearers of the global human rights project of the 1980s, its initial heteronormative impulses point to gaps in its conceptualisation of rights. This article offers a close reading of
A. Carolin
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The Anti-Coca-Cola Movement in Plachimada, Kerala

, 2019
This study focuses on the post-1990s Anti-Coca-Cola movement that emerged in the village of Plachimada, which is located in the Perumatty panchayat in the state of Kerala, India.
Rajesh K. P.
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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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