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Review of Neva Welton and Linda Wolf’s edited volume "Global Uprising: Confronting the Tyrannies of the 21st Century" (New Society Publishers, 2001) published in the Fall, 2003 issue of Cultural Survival Quarterly.
The Global Studies Association of North America (GSA) held its tenth annual conference at the University of Victoria in Canada May 3-6, 2012, under the theme: "Dystopia and Global Rebellion." The GSA is a progressive cross disciplinary academic organization that ties together scholars and activists researching the many facets of globalization. Over the past decade it has function as a center for left critical theory and thought on the economics, politics and culture of global capitalism. Because of its cross disciplinary nature conferences are characterized by a wide range of papers. Themes set a general tone but presentations cover a wide array of concerns reflecting current research and interests. The two main concerns of papers at the 2012 conference were the global economic and environmental crisis and the growing social movements typified by the Arab Spring and Occupy Movement.
This thesis concentrates on resistance to (and emancipation from) neoliberal globalisation, arguing that the most prevalent academic conceptualisation of such dissidence in its totality - “Global Civil Society”, or GCS – is founded upon a trinity of misconceptions: (1) the notion of a declining nation-state; (2) an idealistic evaluation of the Internet’s revolutionary promise; and (3) firm confidence in the burgeoning NGO sector as the core agency of transformation. Having established the dynamics of globalisation (and its associated discontents), I critique these three central premises of GCS, concluding that the model invites irreconcilable disharmony among its constituents, (further) marginalises subaltern voices, and appears markedly vulnerable to tactics of co-optation and repression waged by status quo forces. As a result, we must look to an alternative mode of resistance, an alternative vision; as the “anti-globalisation” movement reiterates: “another world is possible”. However we do have to make sure that world does not reproduce age-old forms of oppression. Accordingly, this thesis advocates a shift from large-scale organisations of global civil society that seem to obscure or stifle grassroots agendas toward small-scale, community-focussed, and more place-based mobilisations that work in concert to challenge the very foundations of the global economy (and, indeed, mitigate some of its most unsavoury effects). While this paradigmatic shift seems to hinge on a demystification of the rhetoric associated with neoliberal globalisation in popular culture, it builds potentially upon thousands of years of human experience at living within subsistence-oriented societies, and has exciting possibilities for democracy, self-determination, community, and diversity.
Studies in Social Justice
The Arab Spring and U.S. Occupy movements surprised the world in 2011, showing that movements for radical social change remain viable responses to the intertwined crises of globalization: economic precarity, political disenchantment, rampant inequality, and the long-term fuse of potentially catastrophic climate change. These movements possess political cultural affinities of emotion, historical memory, and oppositional and creative discourses with each other and with a chain of movements that have gathered renewed momentum and relevance as neoliberal globalization runs up against the consequences of its own rapaciousness.Three paths to radical social change have emerged that differ from the hierarchical revolutionary movements of the twentieth century: 1) the electoral path to power pursued by the Latin American Pink Tide nations, 2) the route of re-making power at the local level or seeking change at the global level, both by-passing the traditional goal of taking state power, and ...
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When Reclaim the Streets activists passionately recount the first London events, as they have recently in We Are Everywhere by the Notes From Nowhere collective, they effectively recollect that which would become a template for popular resistance in the emergent ‘movement of movements’. The appearance, from the mid 1990s, of a global justice movement consisting of multitudes whose common grievance with neo-liberalism suggests the presence of a ‘single issue’ protest movement. Condensed as One No, Many Yeses, the ‘issue’ encompasses the entire planet, but is fought on multiple fronts, in variant guises, with diverse influences. And while commentators report that this anti-corporate globalisation movement has been stirred by such seemingly disparate events as the Zapatista uprising and Reclaim the Streets, it also appears that the anti-disciplinary counterculturalism of an earlier period was getting a second wind. Indeed, by the beginning of the 21st Century, slogans like ‘We Are Everywhere’ and ‘The Whole World is Watching’ were being enthusiastically recycled. Something was happening here, again. And in the networked maturation of cultural politics, this time around it appeared truly global. While extensive comparisons with earlier movements cannot be undertaken here, this essay contributes to discussions of methods through which global anxieties are addressed and redressed in local acts of resistance. In particular it makes exploratory forays into the cultural politics of reclaiming (of land, culture, the Internet, the commons, the streets) which appears to have obtained a zeitgeist-like grip upon those compelled to resist corporate globalization.
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The world(-)systems* perspective provides a useful framework for discerning the continuities and discontinuities (emergent properties) of long historical waves of global integration (globalization) and social resistance to (capitalist) globalization.. The capitalist world(-)system has experienced long cycles of economic and political integration for centuries and these have been interspersed by periods of social resistance to capitalist globalization, in which disadvantaged, exploited and dominated groups contest the hierarchies that global capitalism and hegemonic states have constructed. In the contemporary period the intensification of capitalist globalization has been accompanied by a strengthening of social resistance and the emergence of new social movements that resist neoliberal globalization and attempt to build alternatives. Careful study of these long waves of globalization and resistance can provide us with important insights that are relevant to the task of building a more humane and democratic global commonwealth in the 21 st century. Research and teaching on the role of the new social movements and the historical dialectic between globalization, resistance, and democratization should be a central aspect of the new critical Global(ization) Studies.
Upper-division standing COURSE OVERVIEW This course examines the multifaceted processes of globalization and the various forms of resistance that have emerged in response. It explores both theoretical and empirical perspectives on global political economy, focusing on themes such as the transnationalization of capital, labor movements, extractivism, and the impacts of neoliberal policies. Additionally, the course delves into contemporary global struggles, including labor rights, environmental justice, immigrant movements, and resistance in specific geopolitical contexts like Latin America and the Middle East. Through a combination of readings, films, and reflective exercises, students will engage critically with the dynamics of global capitalism and the collective actions opposing it. COURSE OBJECTIVES In this course students will be able to understand and critically analyze key theoretical perspectives on globalization, including critiques of mainstream approaches. We will be exploring historical and contemporary shifts in the global political economy, particularly focusing on transnational capitalism and its exploitative nature. Throughout the quarter, case studies of resistance movements across various global contexts, such as labor struggles, environmental justice movements will be studied. We will also analyze the connections between extractivism, neoliberalism, and global resistance, with particular emphasis on marginalized communities. Students will engage in critical reflection on how globalization shapes social, economic, and political inequalities, and how these inequalities spur collective resistance. By the end of the course, students will develop a nuanced understanding of the role of states, corporations, and grassroots movements in shaping and resisting globalization policies.
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/15691497-12341429 This article interprets the globalization of nonviolence and nonviolent resistance through the lens of Manfred B. Steger’s concept of the “global imaginary.” It argues that the globalization of nonviolence and the global imaginary are mutually reinforcing processes. Nonviolent protests are driven by local issues and are, thus, context specific and local but, as in the case of the Arab uprisings, as they spread through the MENA and beyond, the uprisings provided historically linked examples of a growing global consciousness, a “global” we. Please see the journal web page for full article or email me: http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/15691497-12341429.
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