Spatialities of transnational resistance to globalization: the maps of grievance of the Inter-Continental Caravan

Author: Featherstone, David

Source: Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 28, Number 4, December 2003 , pp. 404-421(18)

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Abstract:

This paper explores the spatialities constructed through resistances to globalization. It focuses on the Inter-Continental Caravan, an ambitious project which united activists from the Indian New Farmers Movements with West European green activists in contesting neo-liberal institutions and biotechnology. The paper argues that these political activities constructed distinctive `maps of grievance'. This term is used to suggest that the construction of grievances has both a distinctive spatiality and is constitutive of political identities. The paper argues that the different maps of grievances generated through the project were both a condition of possibility for these transnational alliances and exerted pressure on the formation of solidarities. It concludes by arguing that the location of counter-globalization politics at the intersection of different routes of resistance can be integral to the formation of alternative political imaginaries.

Keywords: counter-globalization politics; India; geographies of resistance; antagonism; contested environments; solidarities

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.0020-2754.2003.00101.x

Publication date: 2003-12-01