ABSTRACT
THE COMPLEX PROCESSES OF GLOBALIZATION AND RESISTANCE HIGHLIGHTED IN this book demonstrate the contradictory array of possibilities for our collective future. This politics of possibilities has two faces. One vision of this future foregrounds the oppressive consequences of global capitalism and military conflicts that constrain the achievement of economic justice and peace throughout the world. The other reflects the possibilities for resisting imperialism and for achieving equality and justice for people around the globe.1 The case studies in this collection highlight this latter vision and focus attention on the challenges and possibilities of a transnational feminist praxis. The former vision is crystalized in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and the subsequent bombing of Afghanistan. The events of September 11 have jolted people in the United States and around the world to contemplate possibilities of continued attacks from the global network of terrorists as well as to prepare for a global war against terrorism. These events give urgency to the call for a transnational feminist praxis informed by a rich understanding of grassroots feminist analyses of peace building and organizing across differences and across national borders.
