Critical Theories, International Relations and ‘the Anti-Globalisation Movement’: The Politics of Global Resistance (Routledge/RIPE Studies in Global Political Economy)

University of Strathclyde, UK. University of Exeter, UK

This book provides a comprehensive and nuanced analysis of the 'anti-globalisation' struggles taking place around the world. It shows the complexity and diversity of these movements and illustrates this with detailed empirical studies of local, national and transnational resistance in the United States, Europe, Asia and Africa. The authors introduce a variety of competing theoretical perspectives from international political economy, social movement theory, globalisation studies, feminism, and postmodernism, explaining how activism has influenced theory and how theory can help activists to modify their tactics.

Introduction Catherine Eschle and Bice Maiguashca PART ONE: Power/Resistance/Movement 1. Constructing 'the Anti-Globalisation Movement' Catherine Eschle 2. In the Belly of the Beast: Resisting Globalisation and war in a neo-Imperial moment Mark Rupert 3. Globalistations, Violences and Resistances in Mozambique: The struggles continue Branwen Gruffydd Jones PART TWO: Discourse/Identity/Culture 4. Anti-Globalisation Discourses in Asia Ralph Pettman 5. Lessons from the Indigenous: Zapatista poetics and a cultural humanism for the twenty-first century Nick Higgins 6. Contesting the Free Trade Area of the Americas: Invoking a Bolivarian geopolitical imagination to construct an alternative regional project and identity Marianne Marchand 7. Globalisation and the 'Politics of Identitiy': IR theory through the looking glass of women's reproductive rights activism Bice Mauguashca PART THREE: Politics/Strategy/Violence 8. Resistance and Compromiso at the Global Frontlines: Gender wars at the U.S.-Mexico border Irasema Coronado and Kathleen Staudt 9. Organic Intellectuals and Counter-Hegemonic Politics in the Age of Globalisation: The case of ATTAC Vicki Birchfield and Annette Fryberg-Inan 10. 'We are Heartbroken and Furious!' Violence and the (Anti-)Globalisation Movement(s) Sian Sullivan 11. Seattle and the Struggle for a Global Democratic Ethos Roland Bleiker Conclusion Catherine Escle and Bice Miaguascha