Social consequences of economic globalization are chaos: from the view point of the political Left: unbridled capitalism does produce effects of exploitation of the weak and socio-ecological degradation, and for the political Right: the malignant forces of globalization engender xenophobia, the demising local people’s jobs, culture, language and hence identity.
Against the problematic globalization project, the anti-globalization campaigns become the main (re-)presentation of a new identity politics and the global citizenship. Thanks to the Internet and mobile telephony, the annual May 1st anti-globalization demonstration against global capitalism in major cities around the world is a core part of the anti-globalization processes. Their messages and representations are loud and clear that the present mode(s) of the WTO/G8/World Bank sponsored global project is not just and fair, for many people in the developing world, as well as those underprivileged in the developed ones, and the healthy cultural reproduction is endangered.
This section attempts to examine aspects and processes of transnational activism, social mobilization logics and dynamics, with specific reference to the new cultural (re-)presentations and (re-)productions in constituting the global civil society, as well as the new identity building for the social activists’ global citizenship.
