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How and why are New Social Movements resisting Globalization?
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How and why are New Social Movements resisting Globalization? The WTO kill people, kill the WTO! (People's global action.) Previously a concept only taught to business students, the use of the word globalization has grown in line with the extraordinary boom in the use of the internet. Communities throughout the globe are now linked to an interconnecting web via computer. Academia is hot on the trial of globalisation, debates wrangle, as it emerges as a central topic of debate amongst social scientists. This essay will seek to introduce the concept of New Social Movements (N.S.M's) in relation to globalisation. With the aid of the Internet and literature from Agnew, Knox, Giddens to name some of the many key writers in this field the essay shall be divided into two sections. Firstly it shall examine N.S.M's using the case studies of the Peoples' Global Action (P.G.A) against "free" trade and the World Trade Organization (W.T.O)...
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