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Book SynopsisAn innovative ethnography of transnational activist networking within the movements against corporate globalization.
Trade Review“
Networking Futures [is] an exciting and important book, and a contribution to sociology. . . . Juris provides us with an understanding of how activists are at the forefront of this global transformation, through their creative use of internet and other technologies, and through their comprehensively democratic and reflexive exploration of new social forms.” - Judith Blau,
Contemporary Sociology“The view Juris offers is more in-depth than has been generally reported even by sympathetic journalists. . . .
Networking Futures stands as a pioneering document of what may yet prove to be a new new world order.” - Vince Carducci,
Popmatters“As well as being an insightful and inspiring resource for activists,
Networking Futures: The Movements Against Corporate Globalisation, is a absorbing history of the ever-evolving contemporary resistance to corporate globalisation. I found it a refreshing antidote to the constant barrage of neo-conservative blather emanating from the mouths of free market evangelists on the pages and the airwaves of the mainstream media—especially read in the context of collapsing global markets!” - Megan Yarrow,
M/C Reviews“
Networking Futures is one of the very first detailed ethnographic accounts of the alternative globalisation movement. The book manages to weave together some of the key historical moments of its ineluctable rise into a single compelling narrative from the intimate perspective of someone who was
there. . . . Juris’s many accounts of the vitality, creativity and innovativeness of the alternative globalisation movement will inspire activists and academics alike for many years to come.” - Marco Cuevas-Hewitt,
Anthropological Forum“
Networking Futures is a terrific, deeply informed ethnographic account of the origins and activities of the anti–corporate globalization movement. Jeffrey S. Juris’s identity is as much that of an activist who happens to be doing first-rate anthropology as vice versa, and there is much for anthropologists to reflect on in the way that this work is set up and narrated through these dual identities.”—
George E. Marcus, co-author of
Designs for an Anthropology of the Contemporary“
Networking Futures is one of the very first books to map in detail the multiple networks that are challenging corporate globalization. Taking as a point of departure an exemplary case—the Catalan anti–globalization movements of the past decade—Jeffrey S. Juris moves on to chronicle the collective struggles to construct not only an alternative vision of possible worlds but the means to bring them about.
Networking Futures is a compelling portrait of the spirit of innovation that lies behind an array of progressive mobilizations, from anarchist movements and street protests to the World Social Forum. Based on a well-developed notion of collaborative ethnography, it is also a wonderful example of engaged scholarship: a much-needed alternative to academic work as usual.”—
Arturo Escobar, author of
Territories of Difference: Place, Movements, Life, Redes
“Jeffrey S. Juris gives us an illuminating model for how to study networks from below using the tools of ethnography. And in the process he reveals the extraordinary power (as well as the challenges) of network organizing for social movements today.”—
Michael Hardt, co-author of
Empire and
Multitude“
Networking Futures [is] an exciting and important book, and a contribution to sociology. . . . Juris provides us with an understanding of how activists are at the forefront of this global transformation, through their creative use of internet and other technologies, and through their comprehensively democratic and reflexive exploration of new social forms.” -- Judith Blau * Contemporary Sociology *
“
Networking Futures is one of the very first detailed ethnographic accounts of the alternative globalisation movement. The book manages to weave together some of the key historical moments of its ineluctable rise into a single compelling narrative from the intimate perspective of someone who was
there. . . . Juris’s many accounts of the vitality, creativity and innovativeness of the alternative globalisation movement will inspire activists and academics alike for many years to come.” -- Marco Cuevas-Hewitt * Anthropological Forum *
“As well as being an insightful and inspiring resource for activists,
Networking Futures: The Movements Against Corporate Globalisation, is a absorbing history of the ever-evolving contemporary resistance to corporate globalisation. I found it a refreshing antidote to the constant barrage of neo-conservative blather emanating from the mouths of free market evangelists on the pages and the airwaves of the mainstream media—especially read in the context of collapsing global markets!” -- Megan Yarrow * M/C Reviews *
“The view Juris offers is more in-depth than has been generally reported even by sympathetic journalists. . . .
Networking Futures stands as a pioneering document of what may yet prove to be a new new world order.” -- Vince Carducci * Popmatters *
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations and Tables ix
Acknowledgments xi
Abbreviations xv
Introduction: The Cultural Logic of Networking 1
1. The Seattle Effect 27
2. Anti-Corporate Globalization Soldiers in Barcelona 61
3. Grassroots Mobilization and Shifting Alliances 93
4. Performing Networks at Direct-Action Protests 123
5. Spaces of Terror: Violence and Repression in Genoa 161
6. May the Resistance Be as Transnational as Capital! 199
7. Social Forums and the Cultural Politics of Autonomous Space 233
8. The Rise of Independent Utopics 267
Conclusion: Political Change and Cultural Transformation in a Digital Age 287
Appendix 1: Electronic Resources 303
Appendix 2: Pink and Silver Call, Genoa, July 20, 2001 305
Appendix 3: Peoples' Global Action Organisational Principles 307
Appendix 4: World Social Forum Charter of Principles 311
Notes 315
References 349
Index 365
