Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate

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Macmillan, 2002 - Business & Economics - 267 pages

Naomi Klein's No Logo is an international bestselling phenomenon. Winner of Le Prix Mediations (France), and of the National Business Book Award (Canada) it has been translated into 21 languages and published in 25 countries.

Named one of Ms Magazine's Women of Year in 2001, and declared by the Times (London) to be "probably the most influential person under the age of 35 in the world," in Fences and Windows, Naomi Klein offers a bird's-eye view of the life of an activist and the development of the "anti-globalization" movement from the Seattle World Trade Organization protests in 1999 through September 11, 2001. Bringing together columns, speeches, essays, and reportage, Klein once again provides provocative arguments on a broad range of issues. Whether she is discussing the privatization of water; genetically modified food; "free trade;" or the development of the movement itself and its future post 9/11, Naomi Klein is one of the most thoughtful and brilliant activists and thinkers for a new generation.

 

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Contents

Seattle
3
Washington DC
7
Whats Next?
14
Los Angeles
29
Prague
34
Toronto
37
Fencing in Democracy
41
Trade and TradeOffs
43
CrossBorder Policing
121
Preemptive Arrest
125
Surveillance
129
Fear Mongering
133
The Citizens Caged Petition
137
Infiltration
141
Indiscriminate TearGassing
145
Getting Used to Violence
149

Democracy in Shackles
44
The Free Trade Area of the Americas
48
IMF Go to Hell
51
No Place for Local Democracy
56
The War on Unions
60
The NAFTA Track Record
64
Higher Fences at the Border
72
Makingand Breakingthe Rules
76
The Market Swallows the Commons
85
Genetically Altered Rice
87
Genetic Pollution
91
FootandMouths Sacrificial Lambs
95
The Internet as Tupperware Party
99
Coopting Dissent
103
Economic Apartheid in South Africa
107
Poison Policies in Ontario
111
Americas Weakest Front
115
Fencing in the Movement Criminalizing Dissent
119
Manufacturing Threats
152
Stuck in the Spectacle
156
Captializing on Terror
161
The Brutal Calculus of Suffering
163
New Opportunists
172
Kamikaze Capitalists
176
The Terrifying Return of Great Men
180
America Is Not a Hamburger
184
Windows to Democracy
191
Democratizing the Movement
193
Rebellion in Chiapas
208
Italys Social Centres
224
Limits of Political Parties
228
From Symbols to Substance
234
Acknowledgments
247
Credits
249
Index
255
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About the author (2002)

Naomi Klein was born in Montreal, Canada on May 8, 1970. She attended the University of Toronto and began writing there for the student newspaper, The Varsity. Klein was offered a series of editorial jobs in newspapers and magazines and this prevented her from getting a final degree from the university. She worked for The Toronto Globe and Mail and This Magazine. She is an author and social activist, who is known for her political analyses and criticism of corporate globalization. Her books include No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies, Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate, and The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. She received the 2014 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction for This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate.

Bibliographic information

TitleFences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate
Recent Picador Highlights
AuthorsNaomi Klein, Debra Ann Levy
EditorDebra Ann Levy
PublisherMacmillan, 2002
ISBN0312307993, 9780312307998
Length267 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Business & Economics / Globalization
Business & Economics / International / Economics & Trade
Political Science / Globalization
Political Science / International Relations / General
Political Science / Political Process / General
Political Science / Political Process / Political Advocacy
Political Science / World / General
  
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