Globalization, Resistance to Economic

Popular resistance to economic globalization, while a phenomenon of long-standing duration in the global South, has only recently become a phenomenon of note in the northern hemisphere. The antiglobalization movement—or the movement for global social justice, as some activists would prefer to call it—became well known as a consequence of a series [Page 666]of large public protests of transnational economic policies and institutions. These included protests that accompanied the Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Seattle (1999), meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington, D.C. (2000) and in Prague (2000), the G-8 (Group of 8) Meeting in Genoa (2001), and the Summit of the Americas in Quebec City (2001).

While events such as these have important symbolic ...