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Volume ume10 Number Volume 10, Issue 1, 2004 Year 2004

11 articles in this issue 

Bruce Podobnik,Thomas E. Reifer

Throughout the history of the modern world-system, projects of globalization promoted by world elites have been met with resistance from people on the ground whose livelihoods have often been threatened. As the geographic scale of global capitalism has ex... see more

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Jeffrey M. Ayres

The rise of the protest movement against neoliberal globalization represents one of the most signi?cant illustrations of social con?ict and contentious political behavior of the past several decades. This paper contends that central to the movements rise ... see more

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Frederick H. Buttel ,Kenneth A. Gould

This paper examines the major structural characteristics of the anti-corporate globalization movement, its key bases and antecedents, its relationship with other global social movements (GSMs) and the key challenges it faces in the post-9/11 period. We su... see more

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Lesley J. Wood

This paper analyses a set of 467 local protests that took place against neoliberalism on 5 global days of action between 1998 and 2001 and ?nds that the targets of protest di?er on each continent. The majority target either the global institutions of neol... see more

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Kenneth A. Gould,Tammy L. Lewis ,J. Timmons Roberts

Workers and environmentalists in the United States have often found themselves on opposite sides of critical issues. Yet at the WTO meeting in Seattle in November 1999, they came together in a historic protest many see as a watershed in the formation of a... see more

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Amory Starr

The anti-globalization movement is resolutely anti-imperialist, and increasingly says so. It works on issues of economic, political, and cultural justice and autonomy of indigenous people and the Global South, as well as workers and oppressed people in th... see more

Pags. 119 - 151  

Thomas D. Hall,James V. Fenelon

This paper explores the past, present, and future resistance of indigenous peoples to capitalist expansion. The central argument is that the survival of indigenous peoples, their identities, and their cultures, constitutes strong antisystemic resistance a... see more

Pags. 153 - 197  

Gianpaolo Baiocchi

What is the role of Brazils Workers Party (PT) in its sponsorship of the World Social Forum, and what is the signi?cance of this relationship to the struggles to build a more just social order? Some have criticized the pres-ence of the PT in the Forum, ju... see more

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Peter Waterman

First suggested in the Netherlands, in the late-1980s, the notion of Social Movement Unionism was ?rst applied in South Africa, where it had both political and academic impact. The South-African formulation combined the class and the popular: a response t... see more

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Jackie Smith

With the end of the Cold War, military security issues declined on the international agenda as environmental, economic, and social issues rose. As superpower con?ict faded from the international agenda, space was created for new attempts at multilateral p... see more

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Robert J.S. Ross

In January of 1999 a new student movement announced itself on the cam-puses of American universities. It began a campaign for a sweat free campus and it did so in dramatic fashionby occupying over the next four months Administration buildings on seven cam... see more

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