Description
Book SynopsisThe rise of Trumpism and the Covid-19 pandemic have galvanized debates about globalization. Eric D. Larson presents a timely look at the last time the concept spurred unruly agitation: the late twentieth century. Offering a transnational history of the emergence of the global justice movement in the United States and Mexico, he considers how popular organizations laid the foundations for this movement of movements. Farmers, urban workers, and Indigenous peoples grounded their efforts to confront free-market reforms in frontline struggles for economic and racial justice. As they strove to change the direction of the world economy, they often navigated undercurrents of racism, nationalism, and neoliberal multiculturalism, both within and beyond their networks. Larson traces the histories of three popular organizations, examining the Mexican roots of the idea of food sovereignty; racism and whiteness at the momentous Battle of Seattle protests outside the 1999 World Trade Organization mee
Table of ContentsContents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
PART I (IN)VISIBILIZING EMPIRE: AMBIVALENT NATIONALISM AND THE ORIGINS OF GLOBAL JUSTICE
1. Food Sovereignty: The Origins of an Idea
2. Ambivalent Nationalism: Food Sovereignty in Mexico’s Age of NAFTA
3. The Specter of US Decline: Ambivalent Americanism and the Jobs with Justice Coalition
in the 1980s
PART II RACISM AND GLOBAL JUSTICE IN A MULTICULTURAL AGE
4. Against Coca-Colonization: Neoliberal Multiculturalism and Indigenous Insurgency in
Southern Mexico
5. Obscuring Empire: Color-Blind Anticorporatism and the 1999 World Trade Organization
Protests in Seattle
6. Invisibilizing Immigration: Color-Blind Anticorporatism and the 1999 World Trade
Organization Protests in Seattle
PART III TWO PROTESTS: GROUNDING GLOBAL JUSTICE IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
7. “Localizing” Global Justice: Class, Nation, and the Jobs with Justice Coalition after Seattle
8. The WTO Is Back: UNORCA, the Vía Campesina, and the Struggle over Agriculture in Cancún
9. The Radical Road to Cancún: Anarchism and Autonomy for the Popular Indigenous Council of
Oaxaca—Ricardo Flores Magón
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
