Global Backlash: Citizen Initiatives for a Just World Economy
October 10, 2024 - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
by Edited by Robin Broad
With trenchant analysis and dozens of primary documents from a variety of popular and uncommon sources, Robin Broad explores proposals and initiatives coming from the backlash to answer the question, "But what do they want?" A range of sophisticated propositions and a vibrant debate among segments of the backlash emerge. Highly readable and analytically powerful, this book is vital to understanding the most potent protest movement of our times.

Reviews of Global Backlash

"For those who hold that the WTO protestors are naive anarchists and that globalization is 'inevitable and good'--or even for those who think the opposite--editor and academic Robin Broad gathers together a wide spectrum of views on economic globalization to complicate the debate in Global Backlash. Broad has compiled a volume destined for the knapsacks of college students across the country."˜ Publishers Weekly

"From Subcomandante Marcos to religious activists, from environmentalists intent on saving virgin forests to students organizing against sweatshops, Global Backlash gives richness and texture to our growing movement. A must-read for academics, activists, and anyone concerned about the future of our planet."˜Medea Benjamin, Founding Director of Global Exchange and Green Party activist

"Global Backlash is essential reading for every citizen of the globe. It lays out a full spectrum of views and--better yet--visions of a more democratic and egalitarian future for all of us who share the planet." Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America

About the Author

Robin Broad is associate professor of international development at American University in Washington, D.C.

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