Something to build on: Jonathan Barker discovers the roots of a popular democracy in the markets and refugee camps of the South.
New Internationalist › Nbr. 2000, January 2000
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Something to build on: Jonathan Barker discovers the roots of a popular democracy in the markets and refugee camps of the South.
At first glance there seems to be little room left for the expression of any democratic impulse among people located on the margins of the global system. The decision-making in the boardrooms of mega-corporations; the closed councils of the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the World Trade Organization; the executive offices of powerful governments; all of these crowd the available political space and set the course for whole economies. This concern over the lack of democratic space for ordinary people ...
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