date: 08-03-2008 13:49 objet: Alter-mondialisation accès: Public tags: # book review, globalization, naomi klein

Pour ceux qui désirent mieux comprendre l'alter-mondialisme et les luttes du peuple contre la mondialisation, je vous recommande fortement la lecture de ce livre génial de Naomi Klein:

"Journal d'une combattante: Nouvelles du front de la mondialisation"
(voir version original anglaise ci dessous)



Présentation du livre
Depuis la publication de No Logo, best-seller traduit en une vingtaine de langues, Naomi Klein contribue sans relâche au débat contemporain sur la mondialisation, son impact, son avenir. Ce journal d'une combattante réunit deux années de chroniques publiées dans le Globe and Mail et le New York Times à l'occasion de manifestations ou de sommets tenus aux quatre coins du monde. Radioscopie de la société actuelle, entreprise de dénonciation des grandes sociétés et des institutions internationales, ces textes rendent également compte de la nature même de la résistance, avec ses manifestations populaires, les allures de carnaval qui ont marqué cette nouvelle forme de subversion jusqu'à l'apparente désorganisation du mouvement - en réalité sa plus grande force. Provocant, intelligent et passionné, ce journal de bord constitue tout à la fois un manuel de survie face à la prédation de l'économie mondiale, un bilan de la mondialisation et de ses conséquences et un témoignage unique sur un moment marquant de notre histoire.

Biographie de l'auteur
Née à Montréal en 1970, Naomi Klein est journaliste au Globe and Mail de Toronto. Elle est l'auteur de No Logo, la tyrannie des marques (Leméac / Actes Sud, 2001, et Babel n° 545). En 2004, elle écrivait et coproduisait le film The Take, sur des usines occupées par leurs travailleurs mis à pied en Argentine.



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For those of you who want to better understand the globalization debate and the people fight for a different future, I strongly recommend the following book, from Naomi Klein:

"Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate"
http://www.naomiklein.org/fences-and-windows

Fences and Windows

Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate brings together two years of Naomi Klein’s writings and tracks the globalization conflict from Seattle to September 11th and beyond.

Since the publication of No Logo, Naomi Klein has continued tirelessly as a brilliant and informed contributor to contemporary debate. Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate, intended as a companion to No Logo, includes her most notable essays, speeches and articles on issues from NAFTA to Genetically Modified Organisms to the violence in Genoa. It offers introduction and explanation, looking at where the movement has come from and where it is going.



More than any other single voice, Naomi Klein articulates the concerns and complaints of a generation: about economic fundamentalism, the criminalization of dissent and the effects of Free Trade. But this book also reflects on the nature of resistance: the street protests that shocked and energized millions, carnival-style subversion and the apparent disorganization that is anti-globalization’s great strength.

Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate is provocative, intelligent and passionate, a document, in its own right, of a unique time in our history.

About Naomi Klein

Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist and author of the New York Times and international bestseller, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. Published worldwide in September 2007, The Shock Doctrine is set to be translated into 20 languages to date. The six minute companion film, created by Alfonso Cuaron, director of Children of Men, was an Official Selection of the 2007 Venice and Toronto International Film Festivals and was a viral phenomenon, downloaded over a million times.

Her previous book No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies was also an international bestseller, translated into over 28 languages with more than a million copies in print. A collection of her work, Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate was published in 2002.

Naomi Klein writes a regular column for The Nation and The Guardian that is syndicated internationally by The New York Times Syndicate. In 2004, her reporting from Iraq for Harper’s Magazine won the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism. In 2004, she released The Take, a feature documentary about Argentina’s occupied factories, co-produced with director Avi Lewis. The film was an official selection of the Venice Biennale and won the Best Documentary Jury Prize at the American Film Institute’s Film Festival in Los Angeles.

She is a former Miliband Fellow at the London School of Economics and holds an honorary Doctor of Civil Laws from the University of King’s College, Nova Scotia.