In the wake of Seattle Critical movement of globalization as a new factor of global governance  Cover Image

Seattle nyomában. A globalizációkritikai mozgalom mint a globális kormányzás új tényezője
In the wake of Seattle Critical movement of globalization as a new factor of global governance

Author(s): Gábor Scheiring
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: MTA Politikai Tudományi Intézete

Summary/Abstract: The subject of the article is the phenomenon labeled as ”global justice movement”. After ten years it is time to explore the roots of this ”new power”: what triggered these demonstrations? What structures of mobilization were lying behind, what sort of movement networks were needed for these to happen? The argument is that this wave of movements cannot be understood either by looking at it as a unified movement or as a loose pool of diverging movements. It is a ”movement of movements” that is a network developing along solidarities built within and between movement families by recognizing the community of values and interests. Hence we have to analyze two types of networks: a vertical (global networks developing within movement families) and a horizontal (networks between movements families). I describe three movement families that form part of the organizational-infrastructural base of the global justice movement, next an analysis of the most important “broker-issues” follows that allowed the coalitions between movement families to be forged. The article ends with some theoretical conclusions

  • Issue Year: 2008
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 87-107
  • Page Count: 21
  • Language: Hungarian