ABSTRACT
Introduction: historical/intellectual development of the literature on (anti-)globalization and resistance identities ‘Globalisation’ became an academic buzzword at the start of the 1990s and has since garnered enormous scholarly attention. Among many other topics, contributors to the literature on globalisation have explored the implications for the ways in which identities are formed and sustained. For scholars such as Anthony Giddens, Mike Featherstone and Manuel Castells, a world of global flows is seen as posing challenges to older certainties grounded in spatial fixity and clear boundaries between us and them and as conjuring new cultural hybridities, social ontologies, and defensive or reflexive selves. In this context, there has been much debate about ‘resistance identities’, of varying kinds and in many locations, and their relation to globalisation.
