1st Edition

Global Movement

Edited By Ruth Reitan Copyright 2013
170 Pages
by Routledge

160 Pages
by Routledge

160 Pages
by Routledge

Critical research and theorizing on the Anti- or Alter-Globalization Movement has exploded over the last two decades. This volume provides a platform for scholar-activists themselves to share insights from engaged research and to critically reflect on movement histories and internal dynamics. It also highlights ways in which activists are reaching beyond their geographical and issue boundaries to... Read more

1 Theorizing and Engaging the Global Movement: From Anti-Globalization to Global Democratization: An Introduction  Ruth Reitan, University of Miami, USA

2 Coalescence of the Global Peace and Justice Movements  Ruth Reitan, University of Miami, USA

3 The Global Social Forum Rhizome: A Theoretical Framework  Peter Nikolaus Funke, University of South Florida, USA

4 ‘Workers of the World, Unite'? Globalization and the Quest for Transnational Solidarity  Andreas Bieler, University of Nottingham, UK

5 Transnational Feminisms building Anti-Globalization Solidarities  Janet Conway, Brock University, Canada

6 Climate Change or Social Change? Environmentalism, Leftist Praxis, & Participatory Action Research  Ruth Reitan & Shannon Gibson, University of Miami & University of Southern California, USA

7 An Indigenous Movement to Confront Climate Change  Ben Powless, Indigenous Environmental Network, Canada

8 ‘No One Is Illegal!’ Resistance and the Politics of Discomfort  Maurice Stierl, University of Warwick, UK

9 Balkanization of Politics, Politics of Balkanization  Andrej Grubačić, California Institute of Integral Studies, USA

10 The Living and Being of the Streets: Fanon and the Arab Spring  Anna M. Agathangelou, York University, Canada

Biography

Ruth Reitan is Assistant Professor of International Studies at the University of Miami, USA. She is author of Global Activism (Routledge, 2007) and The Rise and Decline of an Alliance: Cuba and African American Leaders in the 1960s (Michigan State University, 1999) and conducts participatory research at World Social Forums and other international activist sites.