25 research outputs found
Combinando heterogeneidades em espaços globais de mobilização: os casos do fórum social mundial e globalsquare
A autoridade, o desejo e a alquimia da política: linguagem e poder na constituição do papado medieval (1060-1120)
Redes organizacionales visto desde algunos estudios organizacionales. Acercamiento al sector turistico (Organizational Networks Seen From Some Organizational Studies. Approaching The Tourist Sector)
Professors on the Run: How Marcos’s Narratives of Zapatismo Refashion North American Cold War Anxiety
Bio-economic modeling of wine grape protection strategies for environmental policy assessment
The entangled geographies of global justice networks
The recent emergence of global justice networks (GJNs) to counter neoliberal globalization has been an important political and geographical phenomenon. Much has been written about the emergence of a new global civil society, centred upon a new `network' ontology. In engaging with these debates in this paper, our purpose is to develop a more critical spatial perspective. We argue that issues of space and place are critical in understanding the operation of GJNs and their potential to contribute to an alternative global politics. Spatially, the global linkages of GJNs can be seen as creating cultural and spatial configurations that connect places with each other in opposition to neoliberalism. However, the individual movements that comprise networks, while not necessarily place-restricted, remain heavily territorialized in their struggles. Additionally, networks evolve unevenly over space. Some groups and actors within them are able to develop extensive translocal connections and associations whereas others remain relatively more localized. Potential conflicts arise from such complex geographies, which only become evident through analysing the operation and evolution of different networks. This leads us to focus not solely on the transnational character of networks but also upon how the global is enacted through the localized practices of movements within them, in considering the potential for GJNs to form more sustainable political alternatives to neoliberalism