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Globalisation Links
Orgnet.com
I am not sure if Valdis Krebs though that his work would end
up in a context such as this, but this wonderful interactive
map shows all the major players in the Internet Industry (the
Internet is not flat after all).
They
Rule
One of my most favourite sites on the web, this site is an interactive
flash database that shows who sits on the boards of what corporations
in America and the networks that they are in.
CorpWatch.org
This site is worth a visit. There are literally thousands of sites
like this, says it all really.
Adbusters
Culture Jammers Headquarters
This is an organisation that subverts commercial culture by throwing
it back at them. Well worth a visit.
SPIRAL
- home
Here is an community based group in Australia. Most notably in
one section they advocate storytelling as a way to demystify globalisation
(there is some good methodologies on this site on how to understand
the local and the global).
SARAI
Reader 02 - The Cities of Everyday Life
An interesting project similar to Milkbar.com.au comes out of
Sarai in New Delhi, India.
(Snip) This year's Sarai Reader brings together a range of critical
thinking on urban life and the contemporary, marked by spreading
media cultures, new social conflict and globalisation. Scholars,
media practitioners, critics and activists use a flow of images,
memories and hidden realities to create a fascinating array of
original interventions in thinking about cities today (snip)
ZNet
Global Economics
(snip) ZNet offers this Global Economics Crisis site as a source
for understanding global economics and trade issues and particularly
in preparation for ongoing demonstrations about economic justice.
(Snip)
Language
in New Capitalism
(snip) This website is a resource for anyone interested in the
language of contemporary capitalism, and the links between economic,
social and linguistic change in the contemporary world. The site
was set up by an international network of people who are concerned
with these issues, particularly with the spread of neoliberal
ideologies. (Snip)
openDemocracy
This is a high quality progressive on-line journal from the UK.
There is a published debate between David Held, LSE London and
Paul Hirst, Birkbeck College London. There is also an ongoing
forum about globalisation.
Grasping
at Bits
This is an interesting essay by Patrick Lichty that explores art
and "intellectual control" in the digital age. This is a well
designed site, but some of the cavalier and unsubstantiated claims
made about globalisation in the essay are a little tiresome.
full
coverage: globalisation
This is an on on-line news service that links over 1000 organisations
world-wide. Its database has over 660 articles and links to sites
on globalisation.
John
Ralston Saul - Democracy & Globalisation
Here is a provocative and inspiring speech delivered by the economist
and Historian John Ralston Saul at the University of New south
Wales in 1999.
Globalisation
Guide
Here is a helpful guide put together by the Australian APEC study
centre at Monash University in Melbourne. It attempts to define
globalisation and has a number of links and book references on
the subject.
The
Paper - Independent Newspaper
The paper is an independent newspaper in a country with some of
the most centralised news-media ownership in the world. This has
been put together fortnightly with almost no budget by a group
of local volunteers.
(Quote) It aims to be a forum for critical thought where content
and presentation of ideas remain unaffected by corporate/governmental
influence (quote)
kill
your tv dot com
This site if anything is a homage to good design and a hell of
a lot of work. Why pay for, more often than not, mediocre mainstream
press when there are sites such as this?
Ya
BastaPictures
Here is an interesting resource that documents through photos
all the globalisation protests around the globe over recent years.
Empire
by Hardt and Negri
If you haven't the money to by Negri and Hardt's empire, then
you can read it on line here.
(Quote)we are glad to announce that we have finally released the
first plain ascii version ever of empire by Antonio Negri and
Michael Hardt There is of course much more, and even more is obviously
missing. To contribute a text to our engine, all you have to do
is mail it to inbox@textz.com
Negri and Hardt (quote)
Independent
Media Centre -
Indymedia is a global independent news service based on the self
publishing model. Indymedia was originally developed in Sydney,
Australia and has been influential at providing alternative views
during some of the large globalisation protests. There are Indymedia
sites in many of West's major cities.
Council
of Canadians: Home
Yet another contribution from Canada, the Council of Canadians
is perhaps the largest globalisation action group in the world.
Maud Barlow is one of the groups principal enthusiasts.
WELCOME
TO PGA / AGP Bienvenid@s/ AMP Bienvenu(e)s!
The People's Global Action is a world-wide group who are against
the WTO and 'libertarian' free trade. This site can be accessed
in a number of different languages.
NoLogo:
the book that became part of a movement
This site needs no introduction, it is the official site of Naomi
Klein. Although this book utilises the somewhat tired mantra that
(repeat after me) the state has been hijacked by corporations,
it is a good introduction to the globalisation debate. The book
tends to be a little of its time in that it concentrates too heavily
on the "new economy" (after the new economy burst it bubble) but
does document in a convincing way the enormous growth of Western
corporations in the post Soviet era. Well worth a visit. The site
has an interactive research component.
S11
Web Site
One of the best local Melbourne examples of how the web can be
used as an effective tool to organise individuals in democratic
protests. The s11 web site (September 11) was one of the driving
forces behind the
protests that for a period, shutdown the meeting of the World
Economic Forum in Melbourne in late 2000.
Spy
| Research | World Link: The Network Society Map
This is an interesting research report that was generated during
the meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland
in 1997. It ranks, in order, countries participation in 'the Network
Society".
Building
Adaptive Organizations in the Networked, Knowledge Economy
One of the most important definitions of globalisation revolves
around the notions of post-industrialism or the "knowledge economy".
Valsis Krebs maps knowledge flows among workers and organisations.
The software that he has developed could equally be applied to
socially progressive causes.
Welcome
to Cyber-Geography Research
Cybergeography
is a research project that seeks to map the Internet. There
are some surprises here is terms of distribution and geographical
location of this important resource.
ATTAC-
INDEX EN
ATTAC stands for the Association for the Taxation of Financial
Transactions for the Aid of Citizens. Many see the taxation
of the world's "financescapes" as a solution to a number of
global inequalities.
ATTAC-
INDEX EN
ATTAC stands for the Association for the Taxation of financial
Transactions for the Aid of Citizens. The taxation of the world's
"financescapes" is seen as one of the solutions to some of the
world's global inequalities.
Welcome
to WTOWatch.org
Another excellent resource for those interested in alternative
views of the WTO
WELCOME
TO THE REAL JEFF KENNETT SITE: REALJEFF.COM
Perhaps one of the first and most famous local Melbourne example
of a group of concerned voters opinion of our state leader.
This site is a parody of a site used by the Liberal (Conservative)
leaders in their 1999 election campaign. The site became famous
through local (and national) radio and television outlets that
seemed to got the joke. The site has been kindly archived by
the State Library of Victoria and the Pandora project.
Hacktivism:
When Politics Meets Technology
In a similar style to IndyMedia.org's self-publishing model,
hacktivism utilises the web's democratic realities to "get the
message out there".
There is some good work here on the democratic use of technology,
especially in terms of how powerful people are not always using
technology in a progressive way.
RTMark:
Your Corporate Future Home Page
RT Mark (or registered trade mark) is an activist organisation
out of the US that utilises a tactic known as culture jamming.
Part of the ethos of culture jamming is 're-purposing' the cultural
messages of corporations to suit more progressive agendas.
The
Free Range Activism Website -- high power portal
This site from "the electrohippie collective" has a good collection
of pointers to globalisation events as well as sections with
analysis and research.
Public
Citizen | Global Trade Watch - GLOBAL TRADE WATCH
One of the more democratic uses of this medium is when local
citizen groups can do research into large global entities and
publish their findings on the web.
(Quote) Global Trade Watch leads the way in educating the American
public about the enormous impact of international trade and
economic globalization on our jobs, the environment, public
health and safety, and democratic accountability (quote).
WTO
History Project
The WTO History Project from the University of Washington, and
other local groups, seeks to understand how the Washington protest
were formed and why. (Quote) The ways these organisations worked
together to orchestrate the protest events, which took months
of planning, will be the subject of popular and academic research
for many years to come. (Quote)
Seattle
Area WTO Anniversary Events Calendar
Here you will find a useful resource that list the groups and
events that originated from the WTO protests in Seattle on November
30, 1999.
People's
Global Action
This is an archival site from one of the many groups involved
in the Seattle WTO protests in 1999.
Global
Exchange
The Global Exchange is a group out of the city that has contributed
so much to the world's technoscapes, San Francisco. They have
some interesting research, especially in terms of the functioning
of the 'world economy'. A great educational resource.
GlobalizeThis.org
- Speak justice to corporate power
Another group dedicated to 'fighting for a better world' through
directing protest towards the great post-war institutions such
as the IMF, the WTO, and the World Bank. This site has an excellent
listing of all the many of the globalisation actions around
the world.
WTOAction.Org:
Welcome to Our Home Page
This group, along with numerous other groups, does research
into the activities of the WTO and publishes the findings on
the web. The group originates in Canada, one of the most influential
countries in the globalisation debate.
(Quote) The WTOAction.Org site was formed after the success
of the WTOCaravan.Org site which followed a group of Canadians
to the WTO protests in Seattle. (Quote)
The
International Forum on Globalisation
(quote)The International Forum on Globalisation (IFG) is an
alliance of sixty leading activists, scholars, economists, researchers
and writers formed to stimulate new thinking, joint activity,
and public education in response to economic globalization.(Quote)
WTO
| World Trade Organization: WTO / GATT Home page
This is an interesting tactic used by globalisation activists.
This is an alternative view of GATT and it's agenda, although
the page looks exactly like the real GATT site.
SARAI-India
Sarai is an organisation in Delhi, India dedicated to the democratic
use and advancement of new-media technologies. They have a number
of new-media project that concentrate on history, anthropology,
and globalisation.
Zed
Books: Publishers of Academic Books
Zed Books is an independent academic publisher with a range
of titles on globalisation.
About
the Centre for Research on Globalisation
(quote) The Centre for Research on Globalisation (CRG) is an
independent research and media group of progressive writers,
scholars and activists committed to curbing the tide of "globalisation"
and "disarming" the New World Order. The CRG webpage at http://globalresearch.ca
based in Montréal publishes news articles, commentary, background
research and analysis on a broad range of issues, focussing
on the interrelationship between social, economic, strategic,
geopolitical and environmental processes. (Quote)
Centre
for Global, International & Regional Studies
This centre at the University of California in Santa Cruz has
a range of downloadable articles on various topics about globalisation.
This centre has a good balance between an activist and academic
focus. Worth a visit.
Globally
Speaking - Home Page
This is an excellent resource from Australia's ABC and Victoria
University in Melbourne. It is a program produced by Radio Australia
and has numerous interviews with many of the leading commentators
on globalism. The oral interviews can be downloaded.
RMIT
Globalism Institute
This
research concentration group at RMIT university is a venture
between the Faculty of Language and Community Services and the
Business faculty. Most of the projects that this team is involved
with have an education policy agenda.
Authored
by Craig Bellamy© 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002
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