{"product_id":"alterglobalization-becoming-actors-in-a-global-age-9780745646763","title":"AlterGlobalization  Becoming Actors in a Global","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e* 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eHenrietta L. Moore,\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eArchives of European Sociology\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"What is missing from much of today's media coverage of the Occupy Wall Street movement and related international struggles against corporate globalization and Western imperialism is the question of where these movements have come from and why they've all emerged at this particular time. Geoffrey Pleyer's book makes an important contribution to addressing the prehistory of the Occupy protests, and it can inform those participating in these struggles as well as students and scholars of social movements.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eJackie Smith, \u003ci\u003eMobilization\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"Pleyers reconsructs the 'grammar' of the movement beyond the habitual dichotomies of reform\/revolution, action\/structure, unity\/heterogenity, and instead seeks to value the diversity of the movement through the social meanings shared by the actors that compose the alter-globalization movement in its struggle against neoliberal ideology.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eInternational Sociology\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"An impressive book that demonstrates the differences of opinion over what a transnational movement like the alter-globalisation movement shoul do to change the world and what changing the world could look like.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAustralian Journal of Political Science\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Provides an excellent overview of the main debates within the movement through a meticulously constructed research programme … [Pleyers'] thorough and balanced account of the development of alter-globalisation offers an immensely valuable resource for both researchers and activists.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eCapital \u0026amp; Class\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Now that it looks as if neo-liberalism has run its course, the resulting cracks and fissures give breathing space to alternative movements and hybrid experiments. Pleyers' book opens up some vistas of these developments in the middle of a serious crisis, and does it from the ground up.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eContemporary Sociology\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"The kind of book that students of the alter-globalisation movement have been waiting for years for … An indispensable read for anyone - students, academics, activists or politicians - who is looking for an elaborate and sophisticated discussion of some of the most crucial political issues of our time.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eJournal of Democratic Socialism\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\"Utterly convincing and theoretically robust ... This kind of scholarship is what the alter-globalisation movement and indeed the world deserve.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eGiuseppecaruso's Weblog\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This important book is the first scholarly account of the alter-globalisation movement. This highly original analysis of the way the movement is constructed around the tension between its two logics - subjective experience and expertise based on reason - helps us to understand not only the movement itself but also the role that the movement plays in inventing global citizenship.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eMary Kaldor, London School of Economics\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Pleyers has traveled the world to offer readers the most sweeping look yet at this crucial global movement, including how it has changed in the face of the recent crisis of the very capitalism it criticizes. By showing us a movement grappling continuously with the Pyramid Dilemma over top-down versus bottom-up approaches, this book helps us think about the most basic issues of democracy and social change.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eJames M. Jasper, City University of New York\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"An outstanding example of contemporary sociological research that rises to the immense demands of a truly global ethnography. Pleyers' book is bound to become the definitive account by a contemporary of the alter-globalization movement. Because of its assured scholarship, easy familiarity with theoretical arguments and intimate experience of the social movement it describes this is going to be one of those rare research reports that immediately becomes a student required text and eventual classic.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eMartin Albrow, London School of Economics, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Global Age\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Well-documented and relying on the most in-depth analyses. This book presents a movement both truly global and adapted to the economic context of each country and region. The main contribution of Geoffrey Pleyers, and what makes this book an indispensable tool, is that he clearly exposes the mixed strengths and weaknesses of a movement which was, and remains, a grassroots movement in which activists from poor countries occupy a place observed in no other movement.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eAlain Touraine, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Prince of the Asturias Award 2010\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This masterpiece will be the main reference for those who want to understand how the alter-globalization movement shapes today's world, how it modifies our perception of action, but also of democracy, and how this new actor articulates local and personal meanings with general concerns for the future of humanity. This study enables us to discover with precision the short, but real history, the aims, the functioning, the internal tensions, the hopes and the difficulties of the first real global movement.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eMichel Wieviorka, President of the International Sociological Association 2006-2010, and Director of the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"The distinction between the way of subjectivity and the way reason that Geoffrey Pleyers proposes in his book clarifies the dynamics and some tensions that we experience in groups and assemblies of the '\u003ci\u003eIndignados\u003c\/i\u003e' in Barcelona. It is a conceptual tool that has been of great help me in group facilitation and positive management of conflicts, both online and in assemblies as it allows overpassing tensions among positions that seem irreconcilable and developing an empathy based on mutual understanding.\"\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cb\u003eDavid Leal Garcia, Indignado (15M) in Barcelona\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eForeword by \u003ci\u003eAlain Touraine\u003c\/i\u003e xi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements xvii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 1 Alter-Globalization – Becoming Actors in the Global Age 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 3\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom the first uprisings to the global crisis 7\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA global movement 10\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1 The Will to Become an Actor 16\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn actor against neoliberal ideology 16\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSocial agency in the global age 23\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 2 The Way of Subjectivity 33\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2 The Experience of Another World 35\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eResisting through subjectivity 35\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSpaces of experience 37\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDiversions of experience 54\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3 From the Mountains of Chiapas to Urban Neighbourhoods 58\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Zapatistas 58\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBarricade social and cultural centre 68\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlter-activist youth 73\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom the Zapatistas to alter-activists 88\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4 Expressive Movements and Anti-Power 90\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA concept of social change 90\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA social and subjective engagement 95\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIllusions of anti-power and diversions of spaces of experience 96\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFacing the political 100\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 104\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 3 The Way of Reason 107\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5 Expertise for Another World 109\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eResisting through reason 109\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSpaces of expertise 112\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe ambivalence of expertise 123\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 128\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6 Citizens, Experts and Intellectuals 130\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 130\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA citizen movement 131\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCommitted intellectuals 135\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTheories of another world and practices of expertise 142\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 152\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7 Reason, Democracy and Counter-Power 154\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA movement against neoliberal ideology 154\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRationality at stake 157\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDemocracy at stake 163\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA concept of social change 169\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 177\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 4 Confl uence of the Two Paths 179\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e8 Tensions and Collaborations 181\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCommon problematics 181\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDichotomization: from tension to opposition 185\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAbsorption: tension erased by hegemony 191\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCombination: tensions and complementarities 193\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 200\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e9 The Main Debates 201\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThink local and global, act local and global 202\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe movement-internal organization 210\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRethinking social change 216\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 226\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e10 Towards a Post-Washington Consensus Alter-Globalization 228\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReconfi gurations 228\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTowards concrete outcomes 237\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eClimate justice 251\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 256\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 258\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes 264\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography 280\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 302\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404389589335,"sku":"9780745646763","price":21.84,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/alterglobalization-becoming-actors-in-a-global-age-9780745646763","provider":"Book 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