Paul Routledge and Andrew Cumbers, Global Justice Networks: Geographies of Transnational Solidarity. Perspectives on Democratic Practice. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2009, 224 pp. $US 84.95 hardcover (978-0-7190-7685-5)
What have been called the global justice or alternative globalization movements have been identified by numerous commentators as the most significant development in anti-capitalist or anti-systemic politics since the fall of the Berlin Wall and Soviet communism. Especially since the events of Seattle in 1999 (but dating at least to 1994's Zapatista uprising) the global justice movements have challenged the “End of History” triumphalism of neoliberal capitalism and posed prospects for an alternative global future based on justice and solidarity rather than profit and competition … Read more
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