Identity, Place, Knowledge : Social Movements Contesting Globalization

Table of Contents

• Fernwood Publishing Halifax Nova Scotia 1
• IDENTITY PLACE KNOWLEDGE 1
• Social Movements Contesting Globalization 1
• Janet M. Conway 1
• Contents 3
• Preface 5
• Introduction 7
• The Making and Meaning of Antiglobalization Movements 7
• Considering the Antiglobalization Movement 8
• The and the New Social Movements 13
• The Argument and the Ethnography 14
• Theorizing Social Movements and Social Change on a World Scale 17
• Ways to Use This Book 22
• Notes 24
• Identity 25
• Studying Social Movements 25
• Conceptualizing Movements and Their Meanings 25
• Social Movements and Social Theories 27
• Social Movement Theories and Literatures 29
• Social Movements as Collective Identities 31
• The Cultural Turn in Social Movement Studies 34
• Notes 39
• Place 41
• Grounding Globalization and Resistance 41
• Place - Making Movements 41
• Place-ing Urban Movements in the World City 45
• Studying Social Movements in the Global City 52
• Writing Global Ethnography Grounding Globalization 56
• The in Toronto and the Toronto of the 59
• Notes 61
• Knowledge 62
• Why Movements Matter 62
• Social Movements and Their Knowledges 62
• The Practical Knowledge of the New Left 64
• The Feminist Standpoint and Epistemologies for Coalition Politics 66
• Freirean Pedagogies and Movement-Based Knowledge Production 76
• Notes 82
• The Activist City in an Era of Free Trade 84
• Free Trade and the New Politics of FightBack 84
• Toronto in the 1990s Historicizing and Contextualizing the Activist City 91
• The Free Trade Watershed Coalition Building into the 1990s 105
• Notes 111
• Remaking Coalition Politics 121
• Contested Meanings of the Local 122
• What Are Coalitions For 124
• Dialectics of Democracy The Social Base and the Producing of Politics in the 127
• Structures of Representation Decision Making and Participation in the 130
• Resources Representation and Power 132
• Democratic Governance Problems of Inequality and PowerKnowledge in Activist Politics 133
• Base Building Towards a Broad-Based Democratic Geopolitical Organization 136
• The Politics and Practice of Antiracism 137
• Social Movement Coalitions and Knowledge About Democracy 144
• Notes 147
• Contesting the Neoliberal City 154
• The Metro Budget and the Making of the 155
• Early Campaign Work on the Metro Budget 156
• From the Metro Budget to the Municipal Elections 165
• Knowledge In and Through Campaign Praxis for the Making of the 168
• The and the Problem of Scale 171
• The Federal Social Security Reform Localizing the National 177
• The Neoliberal Revolution and Transformations in Urban Politics 180
• Trickle-Down Neoliberalism Meets Globalizing Urban Elites 181
• Revolution from Above Innovation from Below 184
• Beyond the Impasse Towards a Politics of Urban Movement Building 189
• Conclusion 194
• Notes 197
• Knowledge and the Impasse in Left Politics 203
• Capacity Building in the 203
• Knowledge Protest and the Constitution of Fightback Politics 204
• Activists and Experts Who Knows What About Creating a Just Economy 206
• The Monetarist Right the Neo-Keynesian Left and the Search for Intelligent Activism 210
• The Neoliberal Revolution and the Crisis of Hope 213
• The Remaking of Economic Literacy Grassroots Politics After the Welfare State 216
• Thinking About the Past as Key to the Future Towards a Movement-Oriented Account of the Post-War Era 218
• The Poverty of Activism and the Need for Theory The Poverty of Theory and the Need for Activism 222
• Knowledge Production in the Some Conclusions 227
• The Explosion of Political Possibility and the Problem of Organization 231
• Vision Strategy Organization Crisis and Conflict 233
• Conflicts over Knowledge Production in Social Movements Some Conclusions 240
• Remaking Coalition PoliticsAgain 244
• Notes 246
• Social Movements and Countervailing Power in a Time of Empire 252
• A New Politics in Formation 252
• The New American Century 255
• 911 and the State of Permanent War 256
• A New Movement Moment 258
• New Forms of Global Convergence 261
• Towards a New Democratic Imaginary 265
• Notes 270
• References 271
• Index 296