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Author Williams, Gwyn, 1968-

Title Struggles for an Alternative Globalization : an Ethnography of Counterpower in Southern France / Gwyn Williams
Published Farnham : Ashgate Pub., 2008

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Description 1 online resource (194 pages)
Contents Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: The Voice of the Street; 2 The Larzac and Millau; 3 Organizing the Movement; 4 Being and Becoming an Activist; 5 Power and Domination; 6 Resistance; 7 Moral Foundations; 8 Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
Summary Through an anthropological study of a highly influential movement of French 'alterglobalization' activists, this book offers an ethnographic window onto the global movement against corporate capitalism and the neoliberal policies of the WTO. The volume makes an important contribution to theoretical debates on globalization, domination and resistance
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-172) and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Anti-globalization movement -- France -- Causse du Larzac
Social movements -- France -- Causse du Larzac
Nonviolence -- France -- Causse du Larzac
Anti-globalization movement -- France -- Millau
Social movements -- France -- Millau
Nonviolence -- France -- Millau
Anti-globalization movement.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Anti-globalization movement
Nonviolence
Social movements
Antiglobalisierungsbewegung
France -- Causse du Larzac
France -- Millau
Causse du Larzac
Frankreich
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780754690689
0754690687
1281241296
9781281241290
9786611241292
6611241299