The Movements of Movements: Part 2: Rethinking Our Dance (Openworld's Challenging Empires, 5)

Contents Acknowledgements and Credits 0 INVOCATIONS Proem: Offering Shailja Patel Introduction: On Rethinking Our Dance: Some Thoughts, Some Moves Jai Sen 3 INTERROGATING MOVEMENT, PROBLEMATISING MOVEMENT Nothing Is What Democracy Looks Like: Openness, Horizontality, and the Movement of Movements Rodrigo Nunes Worlds in Motion: Movements, Problematics, and the Creation of New Worlds The Free Association Break Free! Engaging Critically with the Concept and Reality of Civil Society (Part 1) Jai Sen Believing in Exclusion: The Problem of Secularism in Progressive Politics Anila Daulatzai Is Global Governance Bad for East Asian Queers? Josephine Ho Incorporating Youth or Transforming Politics? Alter-Activism as an Emerging Mode of Praxis among Young Global Justice Activists Jeffrey S Juris and Geoffrey Pleyers The Antiglobalisation Movement: Coalition and Division Tomás Mac Sheoin and Nicola Yeates The Strategic Implications of Anti-Statism in the Global Justice Movement Stephanie Ross Negativity and Utopia in the Global Justice Movement Michael Löwy The Global Moment: Seattle, Ten Years On Rodrigo Nunes Autonomous Politics and its Problems: Thinking the Passage from the Social to the Political Ezequiel Adamovsky Boundary as Bridge John Brown Childs Effective Politics or Feeling Effective? Chris Carlsson PR Like PRocess! Strategy from the Bottom Up Massimo De Angelis The Power of Words: Reclaiming and Reimagining Revolution and Non- Violence Matt Meyer and Ousseina Alidou Break Free! Engaging Critically with the Concept and Reality of Civil Society (Part 2) Jai Sen 4 REFLECTIONS ON POSSIBLE FUTURES “Becoming-Woman”? Between Theory, Practice, and Potentiality Michal Osterweil The Asymmetry of Revolution John Holloway The Shock of Victory David Graeber Gathering Our Dignified Rage: Building New Autonomous Global Relations of Production, Livelihood, and Exchange Kolya Abramsky Towards the Autonomy of the People of the World: Need for a New Movement 449 of Movements to Animate People’s Alliance Processes Muto Ichiyo Towards a Fifth International? Samir Amin The Lessons of 2011: Three Theses on Organisation Rodrigo Nunes ‘We Still Exist’ François Houtart Afterword: Another World Is Inevitable ... but which Other World? Lee Cormie Notes on the Editors and Contributors Index This collection provides a bracing window into some of the central ideas to have emerged from within grassroots struggles from 2006 to 2010. Rethinking Our Dance , the second of two volumes, offers a widerange of essays from frontline activists in Afghanistan, Argentina,Brazil, Niger, and Taiwan, as well asfrom Europe and North America thataddress the question, What do we need to do in order to bring aboutjustice and peace? Contributors include Kolya Abramsky, Ezequiel Adamovsky, Oussenia Alidou, Samir Amin, Chris Carlsson, John Brown Childs, Lee Cormie, Anila Daulatzai, Massimo De Angelis, The Free Association, David Graeber, Josephine Ho, John Holloway, Franois Houtart, Jeffrey Juris, Michael Lwy, Toms Mac Sheoin, Matt Meyer, Muto Ichiyo, Rodrigo Nunes, Michal Osterweil, Shailja Patel, Geoffrey Pleyers, Stephanie Ross, and Nicola Yeates. "This collection provides a bracing window into some of the central ideas to have emerged from within grassroots struggles from 2006 to 2010. Rethinking Our Dance, the second of two volumes, offers a wide range of essays from frontline activists in Afghanistan, Argentina, Brazil, Niger, and Taiwan, as well as from Europe and North America that address the question, "What do we need to do in order to bring about justice and peace?"" -- Publisher's description