O movimento por justiça global – resistência aos modelos econômicos de globalização

Abstract

Britta Baumgarten gives an overview over the global justice movement (GJM) and its forerunners. It distinguishes different phases of the development of the movement, outlines the movement's critique of dominant models of economic globalization, forms of protest favored by the movement and offers a description of its key actors and key geographical areas. Her article further evaluates the movement's impact and outcomes. She argues that the GJM is difficult to define because of blurred borders and internal diversity. The beginnings of the movement and its name are debated amongst social movement scholars and it is not always clear who belongs to the movement and who does not. In this sense Baumgarten highlights connections, similarities and differences between the global justice movement and Occupy and Indignados movements of the years 2011 and 2012. Although some claims and practices are similar, the organizational structure of the current protests differs and the existing structures of cooperation were practically not used by the new movements in their beginning. Furthermore their claims are predominantly directed towards national governments. Thus although the movements have a lot in common with the GJM, they cannot be regarded as a part of the global justice movement.