Ruth Reitan is Assistant Professor of International Studies at the University of Miami, USA. She is author of Global Activism (Routledge, 2007) and The Rise and Decline of an Alliance: Cuba and African American Leaders in the 1960s (Michigan State University, 1999) and conducts participatory research at World Social Forums and other international activist sites.

Scholar-activists involved in the broader Anti-/Alter-Globalization movement share critical reflections on transnational labor organizing, the World Social Forum, economic justice, anti-war, climate activism, feminism, indigenous struggles, post-autonomism, post-anarchism, and de-colonial movements.

This book was published as a special issue of Globalizations.

1. Theorizing and Engaging the Global Movement: From Anti-Globalization to Global Democratization: An Introduction Ruth Reitan 2. Coalescence of the Global Peace and Justice Movements Ruth Reitan 3. The Global Social Forum Rhizome: A Theoretical Framework Peter Nikolaus Funke 4.'Workers of the World, Unite'? Globalization and the Quest for Transnational Solidarity Andreas Bieler 5. Transnational Feminisms building Anti-Globalization Solidarities Janet Conway 6. Climate Change or Social Change? Environmentalism, Leftist Praxis, & Participatory Action Research Ruth Reitan and Shannon Gibson 7. An Indigenous Movement to Confront Climate Change Ben Powless 8. 'No One Is Illegal!' Resistance and the Politics of Discomfort Maurice Stierl 9. Balkanization of Politics, Politics of Balkanization Andrej Grubacic 10. The Living and Being of the Streets: Fanon and the Arab Spring Anna M. Agathangelou