Alter-globalization: becoming actors in the global age

Foreword by Alain Touraine xi  Acknowledgements xvii  Part 1 Alter-Globalization     Becoming Actors in the Global Age 1  Introduction 3  From the first uprisings to the global crisis 7  A global movement 10  1 The Will to Become an Actor 16  An actor against neoliberal ideology 16  Social agency in the global age 23  Part 2 The Way of Subjectivity 33  2 The Experience of Another World 35  Resisting through subjectivity 35  Spaces of experience 37  Diversions of experience 54  3 From the Mountains of Chiapas to Urban Neighbourhoods 58  The Zapatistas 58  Barricade social and cultural centre 68  Alter-activist youth 73  From the Zapatistas to alter-activists 88  4 Expressive Movements and Anti-Power 90  A concept of social change 90  A social and subjective engagement 95  Illusions of anti-power and diversions of spaces of experience 96  Facing the political 100  Conclusion 104  Part 3 The Way of Reason 107  5 Expertise for Another World 109  Resisting through reason 109  Spaces of expertise 112  The ambivalence of expertise 123  Conclusion 128  6 Citizens, Experts and Intellectuals 130  Introduction 130  A citizen movement 131  Committed intellectuals 135  Theories of another world and practices of expertise 142  Conclusion 152  7 Reason, Democracy and Counter-Power 154  A movement against neoliberal ideology 154  Rationality at stake 157  Democracy at stake 163  A concept of social change 169  Conclusion 177  Part 4 Confl uence of the Two Paths 179  8 Tensions and Collaborations 181  Common problematics 181  Dichotomization: from tension to opposition 185  Absorption: tension erased by hegemony 191  Combination: tensions and complementarities 193  Conclusion 200  9 The Main Debates 201  Think local and global, act local and global 202  The movement-internal organization 210  Rethinking social change 216  Conclusion 226  10 Towards a Post-Washington Consensus Alter-Globalization 228  Reconfi gurations 228  Towards concrete outcomes 237  Climate justice 251  Conclusion 256  Conclusion 258  Notes 264  Bibliography 280  Index 302