Seattle 1999 protests globalized critique of the Washington consensus

Evidence

Before the anti- WTO protests in Seattle in 1999, the practices of the WTO specifically, and the ideology of the so-called Washington consensus on neoliberal globalization more generally, were questioned by critics in small pockets of resistance. After Seattle, such discourse has become global, ubiquitous, and ongoing. The power of global civil society was seen in the massive coordinated protests against the start of the Iraq war; at that time, some began to call global public opinion the ‘new’ or ‘second’ superpower (Moore 2003; Tyler 2003), even though it failed to prevent the war. But, again, the point is not always instrumental policy ends; rather, the effectiveness of such transnational movements can be measured in terms of their success in bringing a critical reflexiveness to bear on such policy decisions. — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice, 721

Categorization

• XREF: Pays off the Seattle WTO discussion in earlier chapters. — connects to: Transnational activist networks influence global discourse without seeking formal institutional power — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice:…, 720; The 1999 Seattle WTO protests united ideologically diverse movements under plural justice — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice:…, 611; The Washington Consensus caricatures neoliberalism as a fixed policy recipe — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 160 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Transnational protest movements traded strategies and replaced pity with solidarity #expands (0.80)
• The Washington Consensus caricatures neoliberalism as a fixed policy recipe #qualifies (0.78) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 160
• Neoliberal meetings expected contestation rather than consensus #qualifies (0.75) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 371
• Global protest movements of 2011 coordinated through shared tactics against the 1 percent #expands (0.72)
• Neoliberalism functioned as a racial regime in the United States #expands (0.72) — Michael Omi, Howard Winant, Racial Formation in the United States, 202