Politics After Seattle: Dilemmas of the Anti-Globalisation Movement

Introduction"It was just like May 1968," said José Bové, sheep-farmer and French anti-globalisation hero, about the events in Seattle of December 1999 four days of massive street protests against the World Trade Organisation (WTO) turned the city into a battle ground - literally and metap...

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Autore principale: Bleiker, Roland
Natura: Article ou chapitre numérique
Lingua:Français
Pubblicazione: Cultures & conflits 2002
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Accesso online:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Riassunto:Introduction"It was just like May 1968," said José Bové, sheep-farmer and French anti-globalisation hero, about the events in Seattle of December 1999 four days of massive street protests against the World Trade Organisation (WTO) turned the city into a battle ground - literally and metaphorically. Bové joined some 700 nongovernmental organisations and an estimated 40,000 demonstrators, including steelworkers, environmentalists, AIDS-activists, farmers, anti-capitalists, anarchists, students...