Dez anos de Seattle, o movimento antiglobalização e a ação coletiva transnacional

Abstract

Ten years after the protests in Seattle in 1999, this article aims to conduct an evaluation of the anti-globalization movement. Our hypothesis is that during those years, the antiglobalization movement has shown an important ability to organize, mobilize and influence in the international scene, and that it is currently living a stage of crisis as an actor, but with a large part of its legacy having being made into a new framework for transnational collective action. Thus, this paper presents the movement and its features, including a brief terminological and conceptual discussion; an explanation about its origins, reviewing the main cycles and agendas; a study of the first signs of exhaustion of the anti-globalization movement, and the arguments that, beyond the movement’s crisis, there is also a conceptual crisis in order to explain the new transnational activism; and, finally, a reflection on some of the challenges faced by global movements nowadays. Key words: transnational collective action, anti-globalization movement, global social movements, Seattle.