Globalizing resistance
Subtitle: the state of struggle
By: edited by Fraņcois Polet ; with translations by Victoria Bawtree.
Contributors: Polet, François.; Centre tricontinental (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium)
Publisher: Pluto Press in association with the Tricontinental Centre (CENTRI); Pluto
Published: 2004
Place of publication: London; Ann Arbor, MI
Language: eng
Number of pages: 321
Subjects: Social movements; Anti-globalization movement; Globalization
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Translated from the French.
Table of contents: title: Political diversity, common purpose : social movements in India / Vinod Raina; title: Resistance to globalization in rural China / Lau Kin Chi; title: NGOs and social movements in Southeast Asia / Francis Loh; title: Central Asia and the Southern Caucasus : US rearguard bases? / Bernard Dreano; title: Resistance to neoliberalism in Australia and Oceania / Verity Burgmann, Andrew Ure; title: Social movements in the Arab world / Azza Abd el-Mohsen Khalil; title: Struggling and surviving in the Democratic Republic of the Congo / François L'Écuyer; title: Social movements : experiences from East Africa / Opiyo Makoude; title: South Africa's new social movements / David Coetzee; title: Neoliberalism and social conflict : the popular movements in Latin America / Clara Algranati ... [et al.]; title: Proletarian resistance and capitalist restructuring in the United States / Pierre Beaudet; title: Europe : the challenge for social movements / Bernard Dreano; title: The World Social Forum : towards a counter-hegemonic globalization / Boaventura de Sousa Santos; title: The World Social Forum : a democratic alternative / Francine Mestrum; title: The African Social Forum : between radicals and reformers / Mondli Hlatshwayo; title: Convergences and the anti-war movement : expereinces and lessons / Paola Manduca; title: The trade union movement and the social movement : towards a new dialogue? / Pierre Beaudet; title: The new agrarian issue : three billion peasants under threat / Samir Amin; title: The alternative movement and its media strategies / Victor Sampedro; title: The European Union and the 'internal threat' of the alternative world movement / Ben Hayes, Tony Bunyan; title: Police measures against the new global protest / Donatella della Porta, Herbert Reiter; title: New powers, new counter-powers / Raoul-Marc Jennar; title: International law, a decisive issue for the alternative world movement / Monique Chemillier-Gendreau.