Anti-globalization movement

Thousands of people gathered for a demonstration in Warsaw, the capital of Poland, as the country prepared to enter the European Union in 2004.

The anti-globalization movement, or counter-globalization movement,[1] is a social movement critical of economic globalization. The movement is also commonly referred to as the global justice movement,[2] alter-globalization movement, anti-globalist movement, anti-corporate globalization movement,[3] or movement against neoliberal globalization. There are many definitions of anti-globalization.[4][5][6][7]

Participants base their criticisms on a number of related ideas.[8] What is shared is that participants oppose large, multinational corporations having unregulated political power, exercised through trade agreements and deregulated financial markets. Specifically, corporations are accused of seeking to maximize profit at the expense of work safety conditions and standards, labour hiring and compensation standards, environmental conservation principles, and the integrity of national legislative authority, independence and sovereignty. Some commentators have variously characterized changes in the global economy as "turbo-capitalism" (Edward Luttwak), "market fundamentalism" (George Soros), "casino capitalism" (Susan Strange),[9] and as "McWorld" (Benjamin Barber).

  1. ^ Jacques Derrida (May 2004) Enlightenment past and to come, speech at the party for 50 years of Le Monde diplomatique
  2. ^ Della Porta, Donatella, ed. (2006). The Global Justice Movement: Cross-national And Transnational Perspectives. New York: Paradigm. ISBN 978-1-59451-305-3.
  3. ^ Juris, Jeffrey S. (2008). Networking Futures: The Movements against Corporate Globalization. Durham: Duke University Press. p. 2. ISBN 978-0-8223-4269-4.
  4. ^ Morris, Douglas Globalization and Media Democracy: The Case of Indymedia Archived March 4, 2009, at the Wayback Machine (pre-publication version)
  5. ^ Podobnik, Bruce, Resistance to Globalization: Cycles and Evolutions in the Globalization Protest Movement Archived February 28, 2008, at the Wayback Machine, p. 2. Podobnik states that "the vast majority of groups that participate in these protests draw on international networks of support, and they generally call for forms of globalization that enhance democratic representation, human rights, and egalitarianism."
  6. ^ Stiglitz, Joseph & Andrew Charlton. 2005. Fair Trade for All: How Trade Can Promote Development. p. 54 n. 23 (writing that "The anti-globalization movement developed in opposition to the perceived negative aspects of globalization. The term 'anti-globalization' is in many ways a misnomer, since the group represents a wide range of interests and issues and many of the people involved in the anti-globalization movement do support closer ties between the various peoples and cultures of the world through, for example, aid, assistance for refugees, and global environmental issues.")
  7. ^ Walter, Stefanie (2021). "The Backlash Against Globalization". Annual Review of Political Science. 24: 421–442. doi:10.1146/annurev-polisci-041719-102405.
  8. ^ No Logo: No Space, No Choice, No Jobs by Canadian journalist Naomi Klein.
  9. ^ Strange, Susan: Casino Capitalism. Oxford: Blackwell, 1986.

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