Global Activism

by Ruth Reitan

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 Jubilee anti-debt campaignersVia Campesina peasant farmersOur World Is Not For Saleand 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.

338 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 12, 2006

Reviews

[Tobi ﾄﾋﾞ · Rating 4 out of 5]

When an academic essay collection book has the worst cover imaginable you know it’ll be a banger

[Jasmine · Rating 4 out of 5]

I took Ruth's class on Transnational Global Movements and she used this book primarily along with another. This book is awesome. She is awesome. The discussions that came from this book taught me new things and made me reevaluate things I'd learned previously. I'm not going to spoil it but this is one of the best books I ever had to read in college and I did so with ease.