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The Global Justice Movement: Where it Came From; Where We Hope it's Going
Author(s) -
George Susan
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
anthropology of work review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.151
H-Index - 15
eISSN - 1548-1417
pISSN - 0883-024X
DOI - 10.1525/awr.2004.25.3-4.1
Subject(s) - global justice , economic justice , globalization , receipt , george (robot) , sociology , political science , movement (music) , neutrality , neoliberalism (international relations) , law , media studies , public administration , aesthetics , history , philosophy , art history , world wide web , computer science
This lecture was given upon the receipt of the Conrad A. Arensberg Award from the Society for the Anthropology of Work in San Francisco, California, in November 2004. In the lecture, Ms. George explains the background and strategies of what journalists often call the anti‐globalization movement and what she prefers–as an activist within that social movement–to call the global justice movement. She asks what the role of the scholar‐activist is in the global justice, or citizens', movement; Ms. George does not believe that intellectual neutrality is possible. In the lecture, she lays out the goals of the neoliberal proponents of global capitalist policies and discusses the effects of those policies on the lives of global citizens and on the global environment. She discusses the role of financiers and world lending agencies in implementing a neoliberal agenda, and the very specific ways that activists in the global justice movement are countering that neoliberal agenda–giving examples from France, where she is the Vice President of an organization called ATTAC. Included in this published transcript are the questions and answers following Ms. George's Arensberg Award lecture.