Local actors in global politics.(ComMunity IndePenDent MediA)(local activists)

From: Women in Action | Date: August 1, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

The infrastructure of globalisation

Globalisation and the new information and communication technologies (ICTs) have enabled a variety of local activists and organisations to enter international arenas once exclusive to national states. Multiple types of claim-making and oppositional politics articulate these developments. Further, going global has been partly facilitated and conditioned by the infrastructure of the global economy, even as the latter is often the object of those oppositional politics.

The organisational side of the global economy materialises in a ...

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