Table of Contents

List of Illustrations and Tables ix
Acknowledgments xi
Abbreviations xv
Introduction: The Cultural Logic of Networking 1
1. The Seattle Effect 27
2. Anti-Corporate Globalization Soldiers in Barcelona 61
3. Grassroots Mobilization and Shifting Alliances 93
4. Performing Networks at Direct-Action Protests 123
5. Spaces of Terror: Violence and Repression in Genoa 161
6. May the Resistance Be as Transnational as Capital! 199
7. Social Forums and the Cultural Politics of Autonomous Space 233
8. The Rise of Independent Utopics 267
Conclusion: Political Change and Cultural Transformation in a Digital Age 287
Appendix 1: Electronic Resources 303
Appendix 2: Pink and Silver Call, Genoa, July 20, 2001 305
Appendix 3: Peoples' Global Action Organisational Principles 307
Appendix 4: World Social Forum Charter of Principles 311
Notes 315
References 349
Index 365

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Account of how the anti-corporate globalization movement uses new technologies to organize, written by a participant in many of the biggest demonstrations of recent years

About the Author

Jeffrey S. Juris is Assistant Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Arizona State University.

Reviews

"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 Marcus, University of California, Irvine "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