| Description |
xxvii, 268 unnumbered pages ; 20 cm |
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regular print |
| Series |
Flamingo original |
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Original (Auckland, N.Z.)
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| Contents |
1. Windows of dissent -- 2. Fencing in democracy -- 3. Fencing in the movement: criminalizing dissent -- 4. Capitalizing on terror -- 5. Windows to democracy |
| Summary |
Naomi Klein has been writing a weekly column in Canada's leading newspaper, the Toronto Globe & Mail (syndicated worldwide recently, in the Guardian in the UK). She has now, by selecting, rewriting and rearranging these columns, prepared what amounts to a first-hand historical record of the gradual rise to prominence of the anti-global-corporatism movement, and of its most notable successes and its failures. It has a truly international scope, covering everything from the Zapatistas' rebellion in Mexico to the Social Centres in Italy, from the biggest peaceful protest demos since the 1960s to the gassings and shootings at Genoa. Naomi analyses developments in local democracy, in law enforcement, in privatization laws, in capital migrations, in union behaviour, in marketing, in summitry. She gets close to the suited summits -- the WTO, the G8, the IMF, NAFTA. She looks at bioterrorism, pollution, hypocrisy, fear and confusion. It is a portrait, or rather the underlying negative, of the planet's torrid time between the Seattle summit and the world-changing events of 11 September 2001. It makes for dramatic, immediate, indispensable history writing, and reading |
| Analysis |
Globalisation |
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Protest movements |
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Demonstrations |
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Security measures |
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Trade liberalisation |
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Trade marks |
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Political participation |
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Overseas item |
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Protest movements & pressure groups |
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20th Century history (c 1914+) |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes index |
| Subject |
Anti-globalization movement.
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International trade.
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World politics -- 21st century.
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Demonstrations.
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International business enterprises -- Political aspects.
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Radicalism.
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International business enterprises -- Public opinion.
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Social change.
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Globalization.
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Protest movements.
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| LC no. |
00002411 |
| ISBN |
0007150474 paperback |
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