Representing Resistance: Media, Civil Disobedience, and the Global Justice Movement

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From the food we eat, to the clothes we wear, to the values that shape our realities, Globalization has affected nearly every aspect of modern life on this planet. Contributors to this book suggest that globalization is supplanting Cold War ideology and they critique mainstream news media coverage of civil disobedience. They further explore the new activism of social movement groups who use performance and media to appeal directly to the people in promoting their causes, fundraising, and recruitment.

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.,."[O]ne of the most important collections on globalization, culture and politics that has ever been published. It provides cutting edge analysis of the main trends by the leading scholars and activists in the field. I strongly recommend that all concerned with globalization and social justice read this book."-Robert W. McChesney, co-author, Our Media, Not Theirs: The Democratic Struggle Against Corporate Media
"Read this book if you want to know about the cutting edge of democracy in this brutal period of globalisation and about why powerful vested interests are trying to demonise and criminalise the best expression of our common humanity and diverse freedoms."-Vandana Shiva, author, Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge
"There is a great need for scholarly accounts of the global justice movement, as it develops into a long-term challenge to mainstream policy agendas. Representing Resistence, Opel and Pompper's important and timely new collection, certainly fits that bill, offering an insightful and thorough account of the movement's history and prehistory, its (mis) representation by mainstream media, as well as its own highly original use of media, particularly the Internet. This book is greatly to be welcomed and will be essential reading for those interested whether in social movements or in media's contribution to global (dis) order."-Nick Couldry, Senior Lecturer London School of Economics and Political Science
"This is a very useful book. It collects masses of far-flung information and conjecture about the global justice movement, and submits it all to careful, incisive analysis."-Andrew Ross Professor and Director, Program in American Studies, New York University

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ANDY OPEL is Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, Florida State University. DONNALYN POMPPER is Associate Professor, Department of Communication, Florida State University.