The paper examines Australian Indymedia collectives as a means to improve understanding of the practices of alter-globalisation movements. Two key issues are explored. The first concerns the politics of the alter-globalisation movementsöwhat they demand and how they practise their aims. The second concerns the potential of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to provide a space wit...

The literature in the field of critical sexuality studies published between the years 2000 and 2006 reveals an increasing preoccupation with the theme of globalisation. Although major topics of interest vary according to the authors in question and their disciplinary backgrounds, definitions of contemporary globalisation invariably refer to the rapidly increasing movement of people (through mig...

Abstract. The objective of the article was to evaluate relationship between Covid-19 pandemic and globalisation (GLO) de-globalisation (de-GLO) tendencies. Based on a theoretical evaluation this as well historical development, it concludes that is not mother de-GLO but its child, born in completely new global context facilitating pandemic. roots pandemic’s conception are more deeply embedded ca...

A conversation with a friend in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, in 2007 evoked how much the idea of globalisation has permeated ideas of legitimacy in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Almost sharply, this friend said, ‘Don’t forget, the Prophet imagined Islam as global long before anyone was talking about globalisation.’ If being global has become the currency of neoliberal respect, ...

When the history of the age of globalisation is written, the last five or so years may well be counted as among the most significant. That significance is visible but by no means obvious, at least not for those absorbed in conventional (ie, chiefly liberal) academic debates and pre-occupations. I am not talking about an explosion in the value of global financial transactions, or even, despite t...

Good health for all populations is an accepted international goal [1], and there have been broad gains in life expectancy over the past century. However, the perspectives of how health is best defined vary considerably, and health inequalities between the rich and the poor persist. The prospects for future health depend increasingly on the relatively complicated process of globalisation [2]. In...