Networking Futures

Juris Jeffrey S. Juris

Description

Since the first worldwide protests inspired by Peoples' Global Action (PGA)-including the mobilization against the November 1999 World Trade Organization meetings in Seattle-anti-corporate globalization activists have staged direct action protests against multilateral institutions in cities such as Prague, Barcelona, Genoa, and Cancun. Barcelona is a critical node, as Catalan activists have played key roles in the more radical PGA network and the broader World Social Forum process. In 2001 and 2002, the anthropologist Jeffrey S. Juris participated in the Barcelona-based Movement for Global Resistance, one of the most influential anti-corporate globalization networks in Europe. Combining ethnographic research and activist political engagement, Juris took part in hundreds of meetings, gatherings, protests, and online discussions. Those experiences form the basis of Networking Futures, an innovative ethnography of transnational activist networking within the movements against corporate globalization.In an account full of activist voices and on-the-ground detail, Juris provides a history of anti-corporate globalization movements, an examination of their connections to local dynamics in Barcelona, and an analysis of movement-related politics, organizational forms, and decision-making. Depicting spectacular direct action protests in Barcelona and other cities, he describes how far-flung activist networks are embodied and how networking politics are performed. He further explores how activists have used e-mail lists, Web pages, and free software to organize actions, share information, coordinate at a distance, and stage "electronic civil disobedience." Based on a powerful cultural logic, anti-corporate globalization networks have become models of and for emerging forms of radical, directly democratic politics. Activists are not only responding to growing poverty, inequality, and environmental devastation; they are also building social laboratories for the production of alternative values, discourses, and practices.

Sujets

• International business
• Globalization
• Activism

Informations

• Publié par: Duke University Press
• Date de parution: 09 juillet 2008
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780822389170
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 3 Mo

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N E T W O R K I N G F U T U R E S

Experimental Futures: Technological Lives, Scientific Arts, Anthropological Voices

A series edited by Michael M. J. Fischer and Joseph Dumit

J E F F R E Y S. J UR I S

N E T W O R K I N G F U T U R E S

T H E MOV E M E N TS

AGA I N S T

C O R P O R AT E

G L O BA L I Z AT IO N

Duke University Press Durham and London 2008

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C O N T E N T S

List of Illustrations and Tables

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction: The Cultural Logic of Networking

1. The Seattle Effect

2. Anti–Corporate Globalization Soldiers in Barcelona

3. Grassroots Mobilization and Shifting Alliances

4. Performing Networks at DirectAction Protests

5. Spaces of Terror: Violence and Repression in Genoa

6. May the Resistance Be as Transnational as Capital!

7. Social Forums and the Cultural Politics of Autonomous Space

8. The Rise of Informational Utopics

Conclusion: Political Change and Cultural Transformation in a Digital Age

Appendix1: Electronic Resources

Appendix2: Pink and Silver Call, Genoa, July20,2001

Appendix3: Peoples’ Global Action Organisational Principles

Appendix4: World Social Forum Charter of Principles

Notes

References

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L I S T O F I L L U S T R AT I O N S A N D TA B L E S

Map Protest routes during the anti–World Bank/imfaction in Prague, September 26,2000132

Figures ฀1฀. Affinity group locks down intersection during the antiwtoprotests in Seattle29 ฀2. Guerrilla theater performance on the streets of Seattle32 ฀3. Shifting alliances during anti–corporate globalization campaigns in Barcelona117 ฀4. German bike caravan arrives at the Convergence Center in Prague130 ฀฀5฀.฀฀฀Protesters gather in Námĕstí Míru Square133 ฀6. Militant ethnographer at the front of the Pink March in Prague134 ฀฀7. Italian White Overalls lead the Yellow March toward the Nusle Bridge135 ฀8. Closeup of the White Overalls in Prague136 ฀9. Swedish activists engage in nonviolent civil disobedience137 10. Samba band plays during the Pink and Silver March140 11. Pink Fairy performs for the crowd141 12. Militants battle the police during the Blue March in Prague142 13. Masked Black Bloc protester with riot police in background143 14. Protest blocs during the antieumarch in Barcelona, March16,2002152 15. A half million people take to the streets in Barcelona during the march against the Europe of capital and war153 16. Activists share a meal outside the Terra di Nissuno Social Center before the antig8protests in Genoa164