Since the first worldwide protests inspired by Peoples' Global
Action (PGA)-including the mobilization against the November 1999
World Trade Organization meetings in Seattle-anti-corporate
globalization activists have staged direct action protests against
multilateral institutions in cities such as Prague, Barcelona,
Genoa, and Cancun. Barcelona is a critical node, as Catalan
activists have played key roles in the more radical PGA network and
the broader World Social Forum process. In 2001 and 2002, the
anthropologist Jeffrey S. Juris participated in the Barcelona-based
Movement for Global Resistance, one of the most influential
anti-corporate globalization networks in Europe. Combining
ethnographic research and activist political engagement, Juris took
part in hundreds of meetings, gatherings, protests, and online
discussions. Those experiences form the basis of Networking
Futures, an innovative ethnography of transnational activist
networking within the movements against corporate globalization.In
an account full of activist voices and on-the-ground detail, Juris
provides a history of anti-corporate globalization movements, an
examination of their connections to local dynamics in Barcelona,
and an analysis of movement-related politics, organizational forms,
and decision-making. Depicting spectacular direct action protests
in Barcelona and other cities, he describes how far-flung activist
networks are embodied and how networking politics are performed. He
further explores how activists have used e-mail lists, Web pages,
and free software to organize actions, share information,
coordinate at a distance, and stage "electronic civil
disobedience." Based on a powerful cultural logic, anti-corporate
globalization networks have become models of and for emerging forms
of radical, directly democratic politics. Activists are not only
responding to growing poverty, inequality, and environmental
devastation; they are also building social laboratories for the
production of alternative values, discourses, and practices.
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