The entangled geographies of global justice networks
The entangled geographies of global justice networks
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全球司法网络错综复杂的地理分布
DOI：
10.1177/0309132507084818
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发表时间：
2008
影响因子：
7.1
通讯作者：
Corinne Nativel
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作者：
A. Cumbers;P. Routledge;Corinne Nativel
最近出现的对抗新自由主义全球化的全球正义网络（GJNs）已经成为一个重要的政治和地理现象。关于以新的“网络”本体为中心的新的全球公民社会的出现，已经写了很多。在本文中参与这些辩论，我们的目的是发展一个更批判性的空间视角。我们认为，空间和地点问题对于理解GJNs的运作及其为替代全球政治做出贡献的潜力至关重要。在空间上，GJNs的全球联系可以被视为创造文化和空间配置，将地方彼此连接起来，反对新自由主义。然而，组成网络的个别运动，虽然不一定受到地域限制，但在他们的斗争中仍然严重地域性。此外，网络在空间上的发展并不均衡。其中一些群体和行为者能够发展广泛的跨地区联系和联系，而另一些群体和行为者则相对更加本地化。这种复杂的地理环境会产生潜在的冲突，只有通过分析不同网络的运作和演变，这些冲突才会变得明显。这使我们不仅要关注网络的跨国特征，还要关注网络内部运动的本地化实践是如何实现全球的，从而考虑GJNs形成新自由主义之外更可持续的政治选择的潜力。
The recent emergence of global justice networks (GJNs) to counter neoliberal globalization has been an important political and geographical phenomenon. Much has been written about the emergence of a new global civil society, centred upon a new `network' ontology. In engaging with these debates in this paper, our purpose is to develop a more critical spatial perspective. We argue that issues of space and place are critical in understanding the operation of GJNs and their potential to contribute to an alternative global politics. Spatially, the global linkages of GJNs can be seen as creating cultural and spatial configurations that connect places with each other in opposition to neoliberalism. However, the individual movements that comprise networks, while not necessarily place-restricted, remain heavily territorialized in their struggles. Additionally, networks evolve unevenly over space. Some groups and actors within them are able to develop extensive translocal connections and associations whereas others remain relatively more localized. Potential conflicts arise from such complex geographies, which only become evident through analysing the operation and evolution of different networks. This leads us to focus not solely on the transnational character of networks but also upon how the global is enacted through the localized practices of movements within them, in considering the potential for GJNs to form more sustainable political alternatives to neoliberalism.