ABSTRACT

Ruth Buchanan is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of British Columbia. She is currently engaged in a research project on “global civil society,” antiglobalization protest, and international economic institutions. Recent publications include “Collaboration, Cosmopolitanism and Complicity,” Nordic Journal of International Law (part of an ongoing collaboration with Sundhya Pahuja); “Feminized Work, New Technologies and Hope,” University of New Brunswick Law Journal; and “Lives on the Line: Low Wage Work in the Teleservice Economy,” in Laboring below the Line: The New Ethnography of Poverty, Low Wage Work and Survival in the Global Economy, edited by F.Munger (2002).