Global Justice Networks

Routledge, Paul|Cumbers, Andrew

ISBN 10: 1784993832 / ISBN 13: 9781784993832

Published by Manchester University Press, 2016

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Dieser Artikel ist ein Print on Demand Artikel und wird nach Ihrer Bestellung fuer Sie gedruckt. Provides a critical investigation of the global justice movement . Drawing upon three case studies - a peasant farmers network, a trade union network, and the social forum process - the authors argue that the role of key geographical concepts of space, pl.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Global Justice Networks
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1784993832
• ISBN 13: 9781784993832
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This book provides a critical investigation of what has been termed the ‘global justice movement’. Through a detailed study of a grassroots peasants’ network in Asia (People’s Global Action), an international trade union network (the International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mining and General Workers) and the Social Forum process, it analyses some of the global justice movement’s component parts, operational networks and their respective dynamics, strategies and practices. The authors argue that the emergence of new globally-connected forms of collective action against neoliberal globalisation are indicative of a range of place-specific forms of political agency that coalesce across geographic space at particular times, in specific places, and in a variety of ways.

Rather than being indicative of a coherent ‘movement’, the authors argue that such forms of political agency contain many political and geographical fissures and fault-lines, and are best conceived of as ‘global justice networks’: overlapping, interacting, competing, and differentially-placed and resourced networks that articulate demands for social, economic and environmental justice. Such networks, and the social movements that comprise them, characterise emergent forms of trans-national political agency. The authors argue that the role of key geographical concepts of space, place and scale are crucial to an understanding of the operational dynamics of such networks. Such an analysis challenges key current assumptions in the literature about the emergence of a global civil society.

About the Authors

Paul Routledge is Reader in Human Geography at the University of Glasgow

Andrew Cumbers is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Glasgow