This book analyzes the World Social Forum (WSF) in a context of crisis and transition in the history of Western capitalist modernity. Based on ten years of fieldwork on three continents, this book treats social movements as knowledge producers. It pays attention to what movement…
This book combines theory with history to?look into a dozen episodes of struggle?over the concrete and?situated terms of world ordering, and?it finds reasons to think that the contemporary 'movement of movements' against neo-liberal globalization has deeper roots and a broader h…
Combining theory with history to look into a dozen episodes of struggle over the concrete & situated terms of world ordering, this book argues that the contemporary 'movement of movements' against neo-liberal globalization has deeper roots & a broader history than is usually rec…
Never before has the idea of democracy enjoyed the global dominance it holds today, but neoliberalism has left the practice of democracy in deep crisis. Marianne Maeckelbergh argues that the most promising model for global democracy is not coming from traditional political parti…
