Alter-Globalization Becoming Actors in a

Contrary to the common view that globalization undermines social agency, ls"alter-globalization activists', that is, those who contest globalization in its neo-liberal form, have developed new ways to become actors in the global age. They propose alternatives to Washington Consensus policies, implement horizontal and participatory organization models and promote a nascent global public space.Rather than being anti-globalization, these activists have built a truly global movement that has gathered citizens, committed intellectuals, indigenous, farmers, dalits and NGOs against neoliberal policies in street demonstrations and Social Forums all over the world, from Bangalore to Seattle and from Porto Alegre to Nairobi. This book analyses this worldwide movement on the bases of extensive field research conducted since 1999.Alter-Globalization provides a comprehensive account of these critical global forces and their attempts to answer one of the major challenges of our time: How can citizens and civil society contribute to the building of a fairer, sustainable and more democratic co-existence of human beings in a global world?

Geoffrey Pleyers is a fellow of the Belgian Foundation for Scientific Research (FNRS) at the University of Louvain, a member of the Centre d'Analyse et d'Intervention Sociologiques (EHESS-Paris) and a visiting fellow at the LSE-Global Governance.

Foreword	p. xi
Acknowledgements	p. xvii
Alter-Globalization - Becoming Actors in the Global Age	p. 1
Introduction	p. 3
From the first uprisings to the global crisis	p. 7
A global movement	p. 10
The Will to Become an Actor	p. 16
An actor against neoliberal ideology	p. 16
Social agency in the global age	p. 23
The Way of Subjectivity	p. 33
The Experience of Another World	p. 35
Resisting through subjectivity	p. 35
Spaces of experience	p. 37
Diversions of experience	p. 54
From the Mountains of Chiapas to Urban Neighbourhoods	p. 58
The Zapatistas	p. 58
Barricade social and cultural centre	p. 68
Alter-activist youth	p. 73
From the Zapatistas to alter-activists	p. 88
Expressive Movements and Anti-Power	p. 90
A concept of social change	p. 90
A social and subjective engagement	p. 95
Illusions of anti-power and diversions of spaces of experience	p. 96
Facing the political	p. 100
Conclusion	p. 104
The Way of Reason	p. 107
Expertise for Another World	p. 109
Resisting through reason	p. 109
Spaces of expertise	p. 112
The ambivalence of expertise	p. 123
Conclusion	p. 128
Citizens, Experts and Intellectuals	p. 130
Introduction	p. 130
A citizen movement	p. 131
Committed intellectuals	p. 135
Theories of another world and practices of expertise	p. 142
Conclusion	p. 152
Reason, Democracy and Counter-Power	p. 154
A movement against neoliberal ideology	p. 154
Rationality at stake	p. 157
Democracy at stake	p. 163
A concept of social change	p. 169
Conclusion	p. 177
Confluence of the Two Paths	p. 179
Tensions and Collaborations	p. 181
Common problematics	p. 181
Dichotomization: from tension to opposition	p. 185
Absorption: tension erased by hegemony	p. 191
Combination: tensions and complementarities	p. 193
Conclusion	p. 200
The Main Debates	p. 201
Think local and global, act local and global	p. 202
The movement-internal organization	p. 210
Rethinking social change	p. 216
Conclusion	p. 226
Towards a Post-Washington Consensus Alter-Globalization	p. 228
Reconfigurations	p. 228
Towards concrete outcomes	p. 237
Climate justice	p. 251
Conclusion	p. 256
Conclusion	p. 258
Notes	p. 264
Bibliography	p. 280
Index	p. 302
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