4. CONCLUSIONS
The alterglobal movement is composed of four main components that develop differentiated initiatives and activities as part of a collective action that pursues alternatives to current forms of globalisation. The construction of the movement derives from individual involvement in the realisation of these initiatives and activities, which constitute attempts to construct and control alternative forms of individual and group experience to dominant cultural trends.
The movement is constructed on three levels: living spaces, political intervention and the control of systemic frameworks of social life. Across these three levels, the action is constituted through initiatives of subjective affirmation in opposition to dominant forces and cultural impositions that influence social life itself. These alternatives are pursued through practices of creativity and direct intervention in contexts such as development, that, in combining with the efforts of the new social movements and action related to labour issues, realise initiatives of local, national, regional and global importance.

In this way, the alterglobal movement tackles questions related to the spread of power in social life, by proposing alternatives in which the assertion of individual and collective subjectivity is linked to the definition of general aspects of society, defined in term of globalisation. Thus although this movement has difficulty in intervening at a systemic level in the definition of key aspects of social life, it manages to define practices and perspectives mainly with cultural significance, through which it can forge alternative modes of living to those imposed in multiple aspects of individual and social life.

---

 

back