The global resistance reader

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edited and introduced by Louise Amoore

The Global Resistance Reader provides the first comprehensive collection of work on the phenomenal rise of transnational social movements and resistance politics: from the visible struggles against the financial, economic and political authority of large international organizations such as the World Trade Organization, World Bank and International Monetary Fund, to the much less visible acts of resistance in everyday life. The conceptual debates, substantive themes and case studies have been selected to open up the idea of global resistance to interrogation and discussion by students and to provide a one-stop orientation for researchers, journalists, policymakers and activists.

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Pushparāja

Author's dairy on the commercialization of agricultural lands and small holdings of peasantry in Nandīgrām, in the state of West Bengal, India; people's protest against it, political conditions, and political atrocities committed there.

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Heather Gautney

"This book details the history of the alter-globalization protests over the last decade and the attempts by various groups on the global left to build alternatives to neoliberal development through the mechanism of the World Social Forum. Gautney analyzes ongoing contests over political organization and strategy among three of the most prominent groups on the contemporary left - social and liberal democratic NGOs, anti-authoritarian (anarchist) social movements, and political parties. Highlighted are the challenges these groups face in developing new, egalitarian social institutions and democratic political programs in the midst of turbulent times."--BOOK JACKET.

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Pushparāja

Author's dairy on the commercialization of agricultural lands and small holdings of peasantry in Nandīgrām, in the state of West Bengal, India; people's protest against it, political conditions, and political atrocities committed there.