Networking Futures: The Movements against Corporate Globalization » (New Edition)

Jeffrey S. Juris is Assistant Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Arizona State University.

An ethnographic account of transnational networking and political organizing among anti-corporate globalization activists, particularly in Barcelona.

Introduction The cultural logic of networking 1

1 The Seattle effect 27

2 Anti-corporate globalization soldiers in Barcelona 61

3 Grassroots mobilization and shifting alliances 93

4 Performing networks at direct-action protests 123

5 Spaces of terror : violence and repression in Genoa 161

6 May the resistance be as transnational as capital! 199

7 Social forums and the cultural politics of autonomous space 233

8 The rise of informational utopics 267

Conclusion Political change and cultural transformation in a digital age 287

App. 1 Electronic resources 303

App. 2 Pink and Silver Call, Genoa, July 20, 2001 305

App. 3 Peoples' Global Action organisational principles 307

App. 4 World Social Forum charter of principles 311

Notes 315

References 349

Index 365