Alter-Globalization: Becoming an Actor in the Global Age
Submitted by leftforum on Mon, 02/28/2011 - 8:29pm
Panel Abstract:
Reformulating the possibilities for action in the global age constitutes a major challenge for our time and the central issue of the alter-globalization/global justice movement. “Alter-Globalization” (Polity Press, 2011) proposes to discuss it starting from concrete experiments by social actors around the world who have contested globalization in its neo-liberal form, proposed alternative policies and implemented participatory organization models. The book especially focuses on the tension between the two core logics of the movement - subjective experience and expertise based on reason. The panel will discuss the outcomes and the limits of the global justice movement in this perspective, including how the movement has changed in the face of the recent crisis of the very capitalism it criticizes and of the rising concern for global warming.
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Panel Abstract:
Reformulating the possibilities for action in the global age constitutes a major challenge for our time and the central issue of the alter-globalization/global justice movement. “Alter-Globalization” (Polity Press, 2011) proposes to discuss it starting from concrete experiments by social actors around the world who have contested globalization in its neo-liberal form, proposed alternative policies and implemented participatory organization models. The book especially focuses on the tension between the two core logics of the movement - subjective experience and expertise based on reason. The panel will discuss the outcomes and the limits of the global justice movement in this perspective, including how the movement has changed in the face of the recent crisis of the very capitalism it criticizes and of the rising concern for global warming.
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