An uprising worldwide social movement against liberal globalisation
(2001) V Congress of the European Sociological Association (ESA), Research Committe “Social Movements” — Location: Helsinki
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- Since the collapse of the Multilateral Agreement on Investments (MAI) and of the WTO Millennium Round, many activists have started again to believe that protest can be successful, even at the highest integration level. This is the first condition of emergence of any social movement. Since Seattle, no important international economic or political forum has 176 taken place without important protests of local, national and international social movements. Each time, a wide range of associations achieved to agree on a common protest: everyone against liberalism. The next step for these movements will be to find out some common alternatives, which will be much more difficult. Therefore, beside street demonstrations, local, national, European and global congresses have been organised in order to promote convergences between components of this wide movement. Far from being against globalisation, the movement takes part in this long-term process of “increasing integration at a planet level”. If it struggles against the present free-market globalisation, this social movement also wants to improve cultural and intellectual exchanges between world citizens. Actually, its first aim is to “globalise the battle”. The movement is also deeply linked to other modernisation process: increasing individuation and rationalisation. All associations are building a civil society network, which is able to divide work and share information as global corporations do. Reflexivity has become an increasing function of national and international meetings…The movement also takes care to promote diversity between people and organisations.
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Pleyers, G. (2001). An uprising worldwide social movement against liberal globalisation. V Congress of the European Sociological Association (ESA), Research Committe “Social Movements”, Helsinki. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/90972