Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate - Softcover

Klein, Naomi

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0676975518 ISBN 13: 9780676975512

Publisher: Vintage Books, 2002

Synopsis

From the author of the worldwide bestseller called “a movement bible” by The New York Times .Published just two years ago and still riding high on national bestseller lists, No Logo reflected and inspired an entire movement. Fences and Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate brings together two years of Naomi Klein’s writings and tracks the globalization conflict from Seattle to September 11th and beyond.Since the publication of No Logo , Naomi Klein has continued tirelessly as a brilliant and informed contributor to contemporary debate. Fences and Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate , intended as a companion to No Logo , includes her most notable essays, speeches and articles on issues from NAFTA to Genetically Modified Organisms to the violence in Genoa. It offers introduction and explanation, looking at where the movement has come from and where it is going.More than any other single voice, Naomi Klein articulates the concerns and complaints of a about economic fundamentalism, the criminalization of dissent and the effects of Free Trade. But this book also reflects on the nature of the street protests that shocked and energized millions, carnival-style subversion and the apparent disorganization that is anti-globalization’s great strength.Fences and Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate is provocative, intelligent and passionate, a document, in its own right, of a unique time in our history.

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About the Author

Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist and an internationally syndicated columnist for the Globe and Mail (Canada) and the Guardian (UK). She was named one of Ms Magazine's Women of the Year in 2001 and declared by the Times (London) to be "probably the most influential person under the age of 35 in the world." A frequent media commentator, she has guest lectured at Harvard, Yale, and London School of Economics.

From Publishers Weekly

The success of Klein's No Logo, a slashing account of how corporations actively go after "market share" and the global misery that can result, makes anticipation for her next project high. As Klein notes in her preface, this book is more a stopgap than a follow-up. Covering the period of late 1999 to 2002, the book collects Klein's in-the-trenches journalism about sweatshops, genetically modified foods, evolving police tactics for crowd control and more. The two title images recur throughout: the fences are real, steel cages keeping protesters from interfering with summits, but they are also metaphorical, such as the "fence" of poverty that prevents the poor from receiving adequate education or health care. Klein argues that globalization has only delivered its promised benefits to the world's wealthiest citizens and that its emphasis on privatization has eroded the availability of public services around the globe. Critics have suggested that the "anti-globalization" movement (a term loathed, Klein notes, by many people actually involved) lacks a cohesive structure, but Klein generally sees this decentralization as a strength, likening the small groups' "hub and spoke" organization to that of linked Web sites. While Klein offers snapshots of success stories involving Nike, Starbucks and other corporate monoliths, she wisely does not suggest any easy solutions to this complex mesh of problems. Despite post-September 11 talk to the contrary, these dispatches indicate that the movement is far from over.
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Edition details

• Publisher: Vintage Books
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0676975518
• ISBN 13: 9780676975512
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 267