Theorizing and Engaging the Global Movement: From Anti-Globalization to Global Democratization

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But see the edited works of Jackie Smith and her colleagues (Smith, 2011; Smith et al., 2011), Jai Sen and his (Sen, 2011; Sen and Saini, 2005; Sen and Waterman, 2007), Robin Broad (2002), and Cavanagh and Mander (2004).

I thank Andrej Grubačić for engaging in the conversation that helped me to clarify this view, and for hosting the ‘Radical Past, Radical Futures: Conversations on Contemporary Social Movements’ at the California Institute for Integral Studies, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, San Francisco on 30 March 2012 where I first presented it.

An earlier iteration of this theoretical argument appeared in Reitan (2011). I thank Peter Funke for comments and suggestions for building on that work.

And in engaging with and learning from non-and anti-Western struggles, some may eventually chart paths beyond the historical limitations and failures of the left.

Our use of participatory methods is particularly novel in that most studies to date employing PAR have been local ethnographies, whereas we focus on more complex, transnational and virtual spaces and relations.

In this regard, this volume was envisioned as a sequel, of sorts, to the editor's earlier Global Activism (Reitan, 2007), which provides detailed case comparisons of four of the main networks mobilizing against the ‘neoliberal triumvirate’ of the World Bank, IMF, and World Trade Organization, those of the Jubilee 2000 and follow-on anti-debt campaigns, the post-Seattle Our World is Not for Sale network countering free trade agreements, the mass peasant movement Via Campesina, and the anarchistic Zapatista-inspired Peoples’ Global Action.