Beschreibung:
Paul Routledge is Reader in Human Geography at the University of Glasgow. Andrew Cumbers is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Glasgow
Provides a critical investigation of the 'global justice movement'. Drawing upon three case studies - a peasant farmers' network, a trade union network, and the social forum process - the authors argue that the role of key geographical concepts of space, place and scale are crucial to an understanding of the operational dynamics of these networks.
1. Neoliberalism and its discontents2. Networks, global civil society and global justice networks3. Global justice networks: operational logics and strategies4. Global justice networks: geographical dynamics and convergence spaces5. People's Global Action (Asia): peasant solidarity as horizontal networking?6. International Federation for Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers: labour internationalism as vertical networking?7. Social Forums as convergence spaces8. Geographies of transnational solidarityReferencesIndex