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Geoffrey Pleyers - Alter-Globalization: Becoming Actors in a Global Age - 9780745646763 - V9780745646763
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Alter-Globalization: Becoming Actors in a Global Age

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Description for Alter-Globalization: Becoming Actors in a Global Age Paperback. * This book is based on 10 years of research and is widely regarded as an outstanding contribution to sociology. * Pleyers examines the question of how citizens and civil society can contribute to the building of a fairer, sustainable and more democratic co-existence of human beings in a global world. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 506.
Contrary to the common view that globalization undermines social agency, ‘alter-globalization activists', that is, those who contest globalization in its neo-liberal form, have developed new ways to become actors in the global age. They propose alternatives to Washington Consensus policies, implement horizontal and participatory organization models and promote a nascent global public space.

Rather than being anti-globalization, these activists have built a truly global movement that has gathered citizens, committed intellectuals, indigenous, farmers, dalits and NGOs against neoliberal policies in street demonstrations and Social Forums all over the world, from Bangalore to Seattle and from Porto Alegre to Nairobi. ... Read more

Alter-Globalization provides a comprehensive account of these critical global forces and their attempts to answer one of the major challenges of our time: How can citizens and civil society contribute to the building of a fairer, sustainable and more democratic co-existence of human beings in a global world?

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745646763
SKU
V9780745646763
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Geoffrey Pleyers
Geoffrey Pleyers is Research Fellow at the University of Louvain.

Reviews for Alter-Globalization: Becoming Actors in a Global Age
"The question of how we can change the world cannot easily be answered, but Geoffrey Pleyers has shown masterfully in this beautifully written and finely researched book that the way we now imagine those answers in changing, in part because of the way the alter-globalization movement has altered our understanding of ourselves as global citizens." Henrietta L. Moore, Archives ... Read more

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