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This important book is the first scholarly account of the alter-globalisation movement. This highly original analysis of the way the movement is constructed around the tension between its two logics - subjective experience and expertise based on reason - helps us to understand not only the movement itself but also the role that the movement plays in inventing global citizenship. Mary Kaldor, London School of Economics Pleyers has traveled the world to offer readers the most sweeping look yet at this crucial global movement, including how it has changed in the face of the recent crisis of the very capitalism it criticizes. By showing us a movement grappling continuously with the Pyramid Dilemma over top-down versus bottom-up approaches, this book helps us think about the most basic issues of democracy and social change. James M. Jasper, City University of New York An important contribution to a sociology of alter-globalization. It contains a great deal of primary information and analyzes the various trends existing inside this major social actor of the 21st Century. Francois Houtart, International Council of the World Social Forum

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Geoffrey Pleyers is Research Fellow at the University of Louvain.

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