Alter-globalization
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Alter-globalization (also known as alternative globalization, alter-mundialization—from the French "alter-mondialisation"—or the global justice movement) is the name of a social movement whose proponents support global cooperation and interaction, but oppose what they describe as the negative effects of economic globalization, considering that it often works to the detriment of, or does not adequately promote, human values such as environmental and climate protection, economic justice, labor protection, protection of indigenous cultures, peace, and civil liberties.
The name may have been derived from a popular slogan of the movement: "Another world is possible", which came out of the World Social Forum. "The alter-globalization movement is a cooperative movement designed to protest the direction and perceived negative economic, political, social, cultural and ecological consequences of neoliberal globalization". Many alter-globalists seek to avoid the "disestablishment of local economies and disastrous humanitarian consequences". Most members of this movement shun the label "anti-globalization" as pejorative and incorrect since they actively support human activity on a global scale and do not oppose economic globalization per se.
Instead they see their movement as an alternative to what they term neo-liberal globalization in which international institutions (World Trade Organisation, World Bank, International Monetary Fund etc.) and major corporations devote themselves to enriching the developed world while giving little or no attention to what critics say are the detrimental effects of their actions on the people and environments of less developed countries, countries whose governments are often too weak or too corrupt to resist or regulate them. This is not to be confused with proletarian internationalism as put forth by communists in that alter-globalists do not necessarily oppose the free market, but a subset of free-market practices characterized by certain business attitudes and political policies that they say often lead to violations of human rights.
See also
- Alternative movement
- Anarchism
- Anarchist communism
- Anti-capitalism
- Anti-globalization
- Anti-globalization filmography
- Autonomia
- Communism
- Democratic mundialization
- Direct democracy
- Global citizens movement
- Global justice movement
- Horizontalidad
- Mundialization
- Popular sovereignty
- Socialism
- Socialism of the 21st century
- Transformation of culture
Globalization
- Alter-globalization
- Anti-globalization
- Counter-hegemonic globalization
- Cultural globalization
- Deglobalization
- Democratic globalization
- Economic globalization
- Environmental globalization
- Financial globalization
- Global citizenship
- Global governance
- Global health
- History of
- Military globalization
- Political globalization
- Trade globalization
- Workforce globalization
Issues
Global
Other
- Base erosion and profit shifting
- Brain drain
- Climate change
- Climate justice
- Development aid
- Economic inequality
- Endangered languages
- Fair trade
- Forced migration
- Human rights
- Illicit financial flows
- Invasive species
- Investor-state disputes
- New international division of labour
- North–South divide
- Offshoring
- Race to the bottom
- Transnational crime
- McDonaldization
- Westernization
- American imperialism
- British Empire
- World war
- Capital accumulation
- Dependency
- Development
- Earth system
- Fiscal localism
- Modernization
- Primitive accumulation
- Social change
- World history
- World-systems
Notable scholars
- Samir Amin
- Arjun Appadurai
- K. Anthony Appiah
- Daniele Archibugi
- Giovanni Arrighi
- Ravi Batra
- Jean Baudrillard
- Zygmunt Bauman
- Ulrich Beck
- Walden Bello
- Jagdish Bhagwati
- Robert Brenner
- Manuel Castells
- Noam Chomsky
- Alfred Crosby
- Christopher Chase-Dunn
- Andre G. Frank
- Thomas Friedman
- Anthony Giddens
- Peter Gowan
- Michael Hardt
- David Harvey
- David Held
- Paul Hirst
- Michael Hudson
- Paul James
- Ibn Khaldun
- Naomi Klein
- Antonio Negri
- Ronen Palan
- Thomas Piketty
- George Ritzer
- Dani Rodrik
- Jeffrey Sachs
- Saskia Sassen
- John R. Saul
- Vandana Shiva
- Joseph Stiglitz
- John Urry
- Immanuel Wallerstein
- Gabriel Zucman