From: Jeffrey Juris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
Just wanted to let folks know that my new book is finally out,
Networking Futures: the Movements against Corporate Globalization
(Duke University Press). Please spread the word!
The book provides an ethnographic account of the cultural practice
and politics of transnational networking among anti-corporate
globalization activists based in Barcelona with a particular focus
on the links between digital technologies, new forms of
organization, and emerging political imaginaries. It also explores
network organizing, performative protest, and violence during mass
direct actions.
For more information and/or to order the book, go to:
www.networkingfutures.com.
The book can also be ordered from www.dukeupress.edu or
www.amazon.com.
Blurb from the Publisher:
Since the first worldwide protests inspired by Peoples’ Global
Action (PGA)— including the mobilization against the November 1999
World Trade Organization meetings in Seattle—anti–corporate
globalization activists have staged direct action protests against
multilateral institutions in cities such as Prague, Barcelona,
Genoa, and Cancun.Barcelona is a critical node, as Catalan
activists have played key roles in the more radical PGA network and
the broader World Social Forum process.
In 2001 and 2002, the anthropologist Jeffrey S. Juris participated
in the Barcelona-based Movement for Global Resistance, one of the
most influential anti–corporate globalization networks in Europe.
Juris took part in hundreds of meetings, gatherings, protests, and
online discussions. Those experiences form the basis of Networking
Futures, an innovative ethnography of transnational activist
networking within the movements against corporate globalization. In
an account full of activist voices and on-the-ground detail, he
explains how activists are not only responding to growing poverty,
inequality, and environmental devastation but also building social
laboratories for the production of alternative values, discourses,
and practices.
Praise for the Book:
“Networking Futures is one of the very first books to map in detail
the multiple networks that are challenging corporate globalization.
Taking as a point of departure an exemplary case—the Catalan anti–
globalization movements of the past decade—Jeffrey S. Juris moves
on to chronicle the collective struggles to construct not only an
alternative vision of possible worlds but the means to bring them
about. Networking Futures is a compelling portrait of the spirit of
innovation that lies behind an array of progressive mobilizations,
from anarchist movements and street protests to the World Social
Forum. Based on a well-developed notion of collaborative
ethnography, it is also a wonderful example of engaged scholarship:
a much-needed alternative to academic work as usual.”
-Arturo Escobar, author of Territories of Difference: Place,
Movements, Life, Redes
“Jeffrey S. Juris gives us an illuminating model for how to study
networks from below using the tools of ethnography. And in the
process he reveals the extraordinary power (as well as the
challenges) of network organizing for social movements today.”
-Michael Hardt, co-author of Empire and Multitude
“Networking Futures is a terrific, deeply informed ethnographic
account of the origins and activities of the anti–corporate
globalization movement. Jeffrey S. Juris’s identity is as much that
of an activist who happens to be doing first-rate anthropology as
vice versa, and there is much for anthropologists to reflect on in
the way that this work is set up and narrated through these dual
identities.”
-George E. Marcus, co-author of Designs for an Anthropology of the
Contemporary
About the Author:
Jeffrey S. Juris is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology in the
Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Arizona State
University. He is a co-author of Global Democracy and the World
Social Forums and has published numerous articles in both scholarly
journals and activist research forums. He also serves on the
Editorial Board of Resistance Studies Magazine and has taken part
in numerous direct action-oriented groups and networks, including
the Movement for Global Resistance in Barcelona. His new fieldwork
explores the relationship between grassroots media activism and
autonomy in Mexico City.
Jeffrey S. Juris
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Department of Social & Behavioral Sciences
New College of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences
Arizona State University
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.networkingfutures.com
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