The unprecedented social, financial, and ecological crises we face today have generated calls for a paradigm shift even from elites. This book documents and analyzes the ideological content of discussions in the World Social Forums to assess how well activists are responding to real world problems while articulating values and visions that can nurture "one world with room for many worlds." Careful research on central organizations in the WSF reveal how global justice proponents are challenging national identities and market globalism while piecing together their own understandings of preferred alternatives and methods for their achievement. This book is essential reading for those who wish to understand the growing movement against globalized capitalism. It challenges mainstream assessment of the movement as simplistic and lacking in solutions. It provides hope for those who recognize the limitations of the existing world-system and who need to know that another world is indeed possible.Jackie SmithProfessor, Department of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh In this seminal exploration of the ideas and policies of the global justice movement, Steger, Goodman and Wilson offer acute insights. The authors take a hard look at fresh evidence and present a groundbreaking analysis.James H. MittelmanUniversity Professor of International Affairs, American University The book argues for the existence of an emergent Global Justice Movement ideology that needs to be distinguished from other more familiar social movement ideologies. It has its own distinctive core concepts and core claims that respond to a broad range of specific political issues. A brilliant systematic and empirically based analysis of a rapidly mutating reality.Saskia Sassenauthor of Territory, Authority, Rights, and Professor, Columbia University

• Justice Globalism and Global CrisesJustice Globalism: Core ConceptsJustice Globalism: Core Ideological ClaimsResponding to Global Crises: From Core Concepts to Policy AlternativesJustice Globalism and the Global Financial Crisis Justice Globalism and the Global Food CrisisClimate Crisis and Justice Globalism Conclusion

The unprecedented social, financial, and ecological crises we face today have generated calls for a paradigm shift even from elites. This book documents and analyzes the ideological content of discussions in the World Social Forums to assess how well activists are responding to real world problems while articulating values and visions that can nurture "one world with room for many worlds." Careful research on central organizations in the WSF reveal how global justice proponents are challenging national identities and market globalism while piecing together their own understandings of preferred alternatives and methods for their achievement. This book is essential reading for those who wish to understand the growing movement against globalized capitalism. It challenges mainstream assessment of the movement as simplistic and lacking in solutions. It provides hope for those who recognize the limitations of the existing world-system and who need to know that another world is indeed possible.Jackie SmithProfessor, Department of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh In this seminal exploration of the ideas and policies of the global justice movement, Steger, Goodman and Wilson offer acute insights. The authors take a hard look at fresh evidence and present a groundbreaking analysis.James H. MittelmanUniversity Professor of International Affairs, American University The book argues for the existence of an emergent Global Justice Movement ideology that needs to be distinguished from other more familiar social movement ideologies. It has its own distinctive core concepts and core claims that respond to a broad range of specific political issues. A brilliant systematic and empirically based analysis of a rapidly mutating reality.Saskia Sassenauthor of Territory, Authority, Rights, and Professor, Columbia University

• Justice Globalism and Global CrisesJustice Globalism: Core ConceptsJustice Globalism: Core Ideological ClaimsResponding to Global Crises: From Core Concepts to Policy AlternativesJustice Globalism and the Global Financial Crisis Justice Globalism and the Global Food CrisisClimate Crisis and Justice Globalism Conclusion