ISBN10: 0822342693, ISBN13: 9780822342694, [publisher: Duke University Press, North Carolina] Softcover Paperback. Since November 30, 1999, when 50,000 protesters converged on Seattle to shut down the World Trade Organization meetings, anti-corporate globalization activists have staged protests against multilateral institutions in cities including Prague, Barcelona, Genoa, and Cancun. Barcelona has emerged as a critical hub, as Catalans have played key roles within the anarchist-inspired Peoples' Global Action and the World Social Forum meetings. In 2001 and 2002, the anthropologist Jeffrey R. Juris participated in Barcelona's Movement for Global Resistance. Combining ethnographic research and activist political engagement, he attended hundreds of meetings, gatherings, and protests while also taking part in online discussions and forums. Those experiences are the basis of Networking Futures, the first ethnography of anti-globalization movements and transnational activist networking. 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 the movements' networking politics, or organization and decision-making practices.Depicting direct-action protests in Barcelona and other European cities, he describes how far-flung activist networks are embodied during the protests, and how networking ...
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ISBN10: 0822342693, ISBN13: 9780822342694, [publisher: Duke University Press Books 2008-07-25, Durham, N.C. :|Chesham] Softcover Language: ENG
[London, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2008]

Durham, N.C. : |Chesham Duke University Press Books 2008 Trade paperback New in new dust jacket.