Geoffrey Pleyers – författare

Contrary to the common view that globalization undermines social agency, ‘alter-globalization activists', that is, those who contest globalization in its neo-liberal form, have developed new ways to become actors in the global age. They propose alternatives to Washington Consensus policies, implement horizontal and participatory organization models and promote a nascent global public space. Rather than being anti-globalization, these activists have built a truly global movement that has gathered citizens, committed intellectuals, indigenous, farmers, dalits and NGOs against neoliberal policies in street demonstrations and Social Forums all over the world, from Bangalore to Seattle and from Porto Alegre to Nairobi. This book analyses this worldwide movement on the bases of extensive field research conducted since 1999.Alter-Globalization provides a comprehensive account of these critical global forces and their attempts to answer one of the major challenges of our time: How can citizens and civil society contribute to the building of a fairer, sustainable and more democratic co-existence of human beings in a global world?

Contrary to the common view that globalization undermines social agency, ‘alter-globalization activists'', that is, those who contest globalization in its neo-liberal form, have developed new ways to become actors in the global age. They propose alternatives to Washington Consensus policies, implement horizontal and participatory organization models and promote a nascent global public space.

Rather than being anti-globalization, these activists have built a truly global movement that has gathered citizens, committed intellectuals, indigenous, farmers, dalits and NGOs against neoliberal policies in street demonstrations and Social Forums all over the world, from Bangalore to Seattle and from Porto Alegre to Nairobi. This book analyses this worldwide movement on the bases of extensive field research conducted since 1999.

Alter-Globalization provides a comprehensive account of these critical global forces and their attempts to answer one of the major challenges of our time: How can citizens and civil society contribute to the building of a fairer, sustainable and more democratic co-existence of human beings in a global world?

EPUB and EPDF available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.The COVID-19 pandemic has deeply shaken societies and lives around the world. This powerful book reveals how the pandemic has intensified socio-economic problems and inequalities across the world whilst offering visions for a better future informed by social movements and public sociology. Bringing together experts from 27 countries, the authors explore the global echoes of the pandemic and the different responses adopted by governments, policy makers and activists. The new expressions of social action, and forms of solidarity and protest, are discussed in detail, from the Black Lives Matter protests to the French Strike Movement and the Lebanese Uprising.This is a unique global analysis on the current crisis and the contemporary world and its outcomes.

EPUB and EPDF available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.The COVID-19 pandemic has deeply shaken societies and lives around the world. This powerful book reveals how the pandemic has intensified socio-economic problems and inequalities across the world whilst offering visions for a better future informed by social movements and public sociology. Bringing together experts from 27 countries, the authors explore the global echoes of the pandemic and the different responses adopted by governments, policy makers and activists. The new expressions of social action, and forms of solidarity and protest, are discussed in detail, from the Black Lives Matter protests to the French Strike Movement and the Lebanese Uprising.This is a unique global analysis on the current crisis and the contemporary world and its outcomes.

En respuesta a los efectos mas negativos de la globalizacion han surgido diversas formas de resistencia, entre las cuales el altermundismo ha destacado como movimiento social. Desde Chiapas hasta la India, de los foros sociales mundiales a las alternativas locales, Geoffrey Pleyers recorrio el mundo con el fin de comprender este complejo movimiento, asi como las vias que los activistas han explorado para convertirse en actores de su vida y de su mundo, y asi reconfigurar las aspiraciones democraticas, la justicia social y el activismo. Pleyers muestra como esos actores han forjado las culturas activistas, a partir de las cuales surgiran los movimientos sociales del siglo XXI, caracterizados por sus fuertes dimensiones subjetivas, sus formas innovadoras de organizacion y su capacidad de proponer alternativas concretas fundadas tanto en un saber practico como en un saber experto, que pongan en evidencia la irracionalidad del neoliberalismo.