Struggles Against Bilateral FTAs

Challenges for Transnational Global Justice Activism

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12967412
AutoresAziz Choudry (0000-0001-6218-0535, McGill University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2012
Volumen7
Número1
Páginas7-25
Fecha de publicación2012-11-19
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaStudies in Social Justice (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1911-4788 • E-ISSN: 1911-4788
EditorialBrock University Library (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.26522/ssj.v7i1.1052
OpenAlexW2136430372
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas16

The past decade has seen major movements and mobilizations against the new crop of bilateral free trade and investment agreements being pursued by governments in the wake of the failure of global (World Trade Organization) and regional (e.g. Free Trade Area of the Americas) negotiations, and the defeat of an attempted Multilateral Agreement on Investment in the 1990s. However, in spite of much scholarly, non-governmental organization (NGO) and activist focus on transnational global justice activism, many of these movements, such as the major multi-sectoral popular struggle over the recently-concluded US-Korea Free Trade Agreement, are hardly acknowledged in North America and Europe. With a shift in emphasis pushing liberalization and deregulation of trade and investment increasingly favouring lower-profile bilateral agreements, this article maps the resistance movements to these latest shifts in global free market capitalist relations and discusses the disconnect between these (mainly Southern) struggles and dominant scholarly and NGO conceptions of global justice and the global justice movement as well as questions of knowledge production arising from these movements

Economic Justice · Economics · Free trade · Global justice · Globalization · International trade · Investment (military · Liberalization · Negotiation · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Anarchism and Radical Politics · Elite Sociology and Global Capitalism · Labor Movements and Unions · Law