期刊名称：Journal of Critical Globalisation Studies (JCGS)
电子版ISSN：2040-8498
出版年度：2012
期号：5
出版社：Journal of Critical Globalisation Studies
摘要：The political revival of the anti-war movement after 9/11 launched a controversial debate on global resistance against war. Liberal cosmopolitans characterise the movement as a consensual force of opposition against war in the form of global civil society acting on the basis of 'universal' values. Radical poststructuralists consider it a preliminary example of the Multitude, waging 'a war against war' as a global body of opposition. For state-centrics, these views are utopian in referring to global struggles and political subjects that do not yet exist, and alarming because global resistance escapes power in the 'post-political' struggle. Here, the theoretical debate is critically analysed from the perspective of 'critical theory in political practice'. Through an empirical case study of four organisations within the new anti-war movement in Britain, it is demonstrated that these theories' connection to practice is inadequate, and in many ways problematic due to their tendency to resort to a dualistic 'either-or' logic. The paper introduces a 'both-and' approach that not only reflects more accurately the way in which the relationship between global and local is conceived within the movement but also provides a more comprehensive perspective for conceptualising power in the context of social movements generally
