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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: The Cultural Logic of Networking -- 1. The Seattle Effect -- 2. Anti-Corporate Globalization Soldiers in Barcelona -- 3. Grassroots Mobilization and Shifting Alliances -- 4. Performing Networks at Direct-Action Protests -- 5. Spaces of Terror: Violence and Repression in Genoa -- 6. May the Resistance Be as Transnational as Capital! -- 7. Social Forums and the Cultural Politics of Autonomous Space -- 8. The Rise of Informational Utopics -- Conclusion: Political Change and Cultural Transformation in a Digital Age -- Appendix 1: Electronic Resources -- Appendix 2: Pink and Silver Call, Genoa, July 20, 2001 -- Appendix 3: Peoples' Global Action Organisational Principles -- Appendix 4: World Social Forum Charter of Principles -- Notes -- References -- Index

Many progressive unionists in the U.S. advocate for international solidarity and active support for strong labor movements in the developing world. Fortunately, a more unionized global future is not simply an abstraction but is already a reality in some developing countries. On the surface, the poor Indian state of Kerala ought to reveal shantytowns and other stark signs of poverty common among the poorest areas of the world. Yet, because of the state's strong labor movement, the population enjoys basic standard of living indicators far closer to the U.S. than to wealthier parts of India. This article examines this labor movement, its past successes, and the innovative strategies that the Keralan Left is using to address the powerful pressures caused by corporate globalization. The Kerala experience offers instructive lessons not simply for the developing world, but for Americans who wish to take participatory democracy seriously.

Die Autorin geht von der Annahme aus, dass A. Einstein den Optimismus der früheren 1990er Jahre nicht geteilt hätte. Er hat die zunehmende Verflechtung und die Entstehung einer Weltgemeinschaft gesehen, jedoch die wachsende Abhängigkeit des Einzelnen von der Gesellschaft hat er eher als Bedrohung interpretiert. Sie analysiert das Konflikt- und Gewaltpotentiale der Globalisierungsdynamik und kennzeichnet die These von der zivilisierenden Macht der Märkte als 'Mär'. Es wird gezeigt, dass Armut die Ursache von Konflikt, Gewalt und Krieg ist und dass die Armutsbekämpfung einen wesentlichen Beitrag leisten kann. (ICG)

Nature's Revenge: Reclaiming Sustainability in an Age of
Corporate Globalization, Josée Johnston, Michael Gismondi, and
James Goodman, eds., Peterborough: Broadview Press and Garamond Press,
2006, pp. 330.In the 20 years since the Bruntland Commission popularized the notion
of "sustainable development," many have questioned whether
this ambitious idea has any serious potential for realization or if it
stands as a rhetorical mask for a policy of meagre reform. Such concerns
are understandable, given how the ongoing challenges of global ecological
change and the continuing imperatives of development leave us no
justifiable alternative. Nobody would propose "unsustainable"
development, whatever the ecological and human effects. But sustainability
remains difficult to foresee, as it represents a journey into an unknown,
with little in the way of a map to guide those who seek this path.