• ISBN13: 9780199466276
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: Sociology and Anthropology
• Publisher: Oxford UP
• Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP
• Publication Date: September 12, 2016
• Pages: 264
• Original Price: INR 795.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 430 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Sociology / General

This work is a well-researched study of the last decades of the networks in the Global Justice Movement (GJM) and World Social Forums. Itoffers a novel perspective on the traditions ofprotest, ethics, organizational forms and visionsamong activists than is usually presented in theliterature on GJM, which largely focuses on LatinAmerica, the United States of America, andEurope. It is an ethnographically rooted accountof the two conflicting discourses—one amongactivists in GJM and the other emanating fromthe World Bank—that have become intertwinedlocally within the same circle of activists.The author argues that local and transnationalactivist networks, no longer spatially andterritorially limited, have become entangledwith forces understood under the paradigmsof ‘neoliberalism’ and relations amongactivists have changed in unexpected ways.Through a vivid description of transnationalmovements, this book aims to make evidentthe not-so-obvious yet intricate links betweenthe World Bank, the United Nations, popularrock stars and historical knowledge productionamong activists in South Asia and Japan in thetwentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Eva-Maria Hardtmann teaches at the Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology, Uppsala University, Sweden.