ABSTRACT
Over the past twenty years, social movements have been increasing their spatial reach in terms of constructing multi-scalar networks of support and solidarity for their particular struggles, and also by participating with other movements in broader campaign networks (e.g. to resist neoliberal globalization), in what have been termed the ‘movement of movements’ (Mertes 2004; Tormey 2004a). These have often come to public attention through heavily mediatized ‘global days of action’ whereby international summits of key neoliberal actors such as the G8, WTO and IMF have been met with collective protests. Rather than a coherent ‘global justice movement’, our findings lead us to support a conception of a series of overlapping, interacting, competing, and differentially placed and resourced networks (Juris 2004a), or what we term Global Justice Networks (GJNs). Through such networks, different place-based movements are becoming linked up to much more spatially extensive coalitions of interest.
