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Non-hegemonic globalizations

Alter-native transnational processes and agents

Department of Anthropology, University of Brasilia, Brazil, gustavor{at}unb.br

Discussions on globalization tend to focus on processes commanded by powerful agents in a top-down perspective. In this article, I explore alter-native political and economic grassroots processes and agents as forms of non-hegemonic globalization. I analyze other political globalizations by considering the anti-globalization movement, and the alter-globalization initiatives represented by the World Social Forums. My arguments on economic globalization from below are based on the activities of ‘trader-tourists’, street vendors and markets of global gadgets or ‘pirated’ goods. I rely mostly on Brazilian and Paraguayan examples, but there are evidences of the existence of a veritable non-hegemonic world system. I want to call attention to other political and economic dynamics of globalization, a universe where the normative and repressive roles of nation-states are heavily bypassed.

Key Words: anti-globalization • global trade • globalization from below • pirated goods and counterfeits

Anthropological Theory, Vol. 9, No. 3, 297-329 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/1463499609346985


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