Screen LibraryNetworking futures：the movements against corporate globalization
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Duke University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Durham, N.C. |
| Publication Dates: | 2008. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Experimental futures |
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| Carrier Form: | xviii, 378 p.: ill., map ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780822342502 (cloth : alk. paper) 0822342502 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780822342694 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0822342693 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | F114 |
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F114.41 C913 |
| Call Number: | F114.41/J959 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-364) and index. Introduction: The cultural logic of networking -- The Seattle effect -- Anti-corporate globalization soldiers in Barcelona -- Grassroots mobilization and shifting alliances -- Performing networks at direct-action protests -- Spaces of terror : violence and repression in Genoa -- May the resistance be as transnational as capital! -- Social forums and the cultural politics of autonomous space -- The rise of informational utopics -- Conclusion: Political change and cultural transformation in a digital age. This is an ethnographic account of how the anti-corporate globalization movement uses new technologies to organise itself, written by a participant im many of the biggest demonstrations of recent years. In addition to this, Juris provides a history of the movement and traces its roots. |