Global Activism

<p>This comprehensive study traces the transnationalization of activist networks analyzing their changing compositions and characters and examining the roles played by the World Social Forum in this process. </p><p>Comparing four of the largest global networks targeting the 'neoliberal triumvirate' of the World Bank the IMF and the World Trade Organization:</p><ul> <p> </p> <li>the Jubilee anti-debt campaigners</li> <p> </p> <li>Via Campesina peasant farmers</li> <p> </p> <li>Our World Is Not For Sale</li> <p> </p> <li>and the anarchistic Peoples’ Global Action.</li> </ul><p>Written by a scholar-activist the book highlights that despite their diversity these collective actors follow a similar globalizing path and that networks in which solidarity is based on a shared identity perceived as threatened by neoliberal change are gaining strength. Social forums are depicted as a fertile ground to strengthen networks and a common ground for cooperative action among them but also a battleground over the future of the forum process the global anti-neoliberal struggle and 'other possible worlds' in the making.</p><p><em>Global Activism</em> will appeal to students and scholars interested in globalization international relations IPE and social movements.</p>