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Refereed paper presented at the Australian Political Studies Association Conference, Sydney, 28th to 30th September. This paper explores the contributions that struggles over knowledge are making to theglobal justice movement, with a focus on the digital liberties movement and the Indianmovement against genetically modified crops. These ...

This picture, from sgrah's flickr stream, was taken at the 2005 anti-WTO protest in Hong Kong. It's interesting for me because one of the things that I'm researching at the moment is the cross-over between more 'traditional' left-wing social movements (now incarnated as the Global Justice Movement) and movements emerging around 'information ...

With the Olympics fast approaching, attention continues to be focused on China's human rights record. I've been particularly struck by reports that protests will be allowed, but only within designated spaces and after applying for approval five days in advance. I've just started reading Luis Fernandez's Policing Dissent, in which he looks at ...

Non-state actors (NSAs) are increasingly coming under consideration within the field ofinternational relations, and transnational social movements, particularly the global justicemovement (GJM), are seen as having a role in pushing for progressive change. The emergence ofthe GJM has relied in large part on the growth and accessibility of various ...

Paper presented at the International Society for Third-Sector Research (ISTR) Conference in Bangkok in 2006.

I'm giving a seminar on the Global Justice Movement (GJM) tomorrow to students from the Shenton College Academic Talent Program, using the 1999 anti-WTO protests in Seattle as a springboard for talking about some of the broader issues. I've been playing around with different ways of approaching the topic, and in the end I decided on spending ...