The anti-corporate globalization movement: An exploration of its intellectual lineage.

Since its coming out party which took place in Seattle during the 1999 protests against the WTO, the anti-corporate globalization movement has become the subject of investigation for scholars and activists alike. Some have suggested that the movement represented a turning point in history---one that signaled a departure from the single-issue and identity-politics focus which animated many new social movements of the 1970s and 1980s. Others have contended that the movement was/is quintessentially a postmodern phenomenon due largely to its decentralized, non-hierarchical form and its seeming lack of ideological coherence. Through a qualitative analysis of documents produced by actual activists involved in the anti-corporate globalization movement, this thesis explores its intellectual and historical lineage as well as its contemporary influences.Dept. of Communication Studies. Paper copy at Leddy Library: Theses & Major Papers - Basement, West Bldg. / Call Number: Thesis2004 .C44. Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 43-05, page: 1596. Thesis (M.A.)--University of Windsor (Canada), 2004