Global Activism
Global Activism by Ruth Reitan, published by Routledge in 2007, offers a comprehensive study of transnational activist networks. This edition spans 337 pages and is presented in English. The book analyzes the evolving compositions and roles of these networks, particularly focusing on the influence of the World Social Forum in shaping their dynamics.
Readers will find an in-depth examination of four major global networks that challenge the neoliberal policies of institutions like the World Bank, IMF, and WTO. The text highlights the Jubilee anti-debt campaigners, Via Campesina peasant farmers, Our World Is Not For Sale, and Peoples’ Global Action, illustrating how these diverse groups share a common trajectory in their activism. Reitan emphasizes the role of social forums as both a platform for collaboration and a site of contention regarding the future of global activism and the anti-neoliberal movement.
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This comprehensive study traces the transnationalization of activist networks, analyzing their changing compositions and characters and examining the roles played by the World Social Forum in this process.
Comparing four of the largest global networks targeting the ‘neoliberal triumvirate’ of the World Bank, the IMF and the World Trade Organization:
- the Jubilee anti-debt campaigners
- Via Campesina peasant farmers
- Our World Is Not For Sale
- and the anarchistic Peoples’ Global Action.
Written by a scholar-activist, the book highlights that despite their diversity, these collective actors follow a similar globalizing path and that networks in which solidarity is based on a shared identity perceived as threatened by neoliberal change are gaining strength. Social forums are depicted as a fertile ground to strengthen networks and a common ground for cooperative action among them, but also a battleground over the future of the forum process, the global anti-neoliberal struggle, and ‘other possible worlds’ in the making.
Global Activism will appeal to students and scholars interested in globalization, international relations, IPE and social movements.
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