Geoffrey Pleyers

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PhD Sociology Université catholique de Louvain
Masters Sociology Université catholique de Louvain
Bachelors Sociology Université catholique de Louvain

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According to Wikipedia, Geoffrey Pleyers is an F.R.S.–FNRS researcher and professor of sociology at Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium., and a researcher at the Collège d'Etudes Mondiales where he chairs the program "Social Movements in the Global Age". He is the author of the book "Alter-Globalization. Becoming Actors in the Global Age" .

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Alter-activism: emerging cultures of participation among young global justice activists (2009) (138)
The Global Moment of 2011: Democracy, Social Justice and Dignity (2013) (117)
The Pandemic is a battlefield. Social movements in the COVID-19 lockdown (2020) (92)
Author meets critics: Alter-globalization. Becoming Actors in the Global Age (2010) (81)
The Global Justice Movement (2010) (71)
Fair-trade coffee in Nicaragua and Tanzania: a comparison (2006) (52)
The Social Forums as an ideal model of convergence (2004) (28)
Social Movements in Central and Eastern Europe (2016) (16)
Social movement thinking beyond the core: theories and research in post-colonial and post-socialist societies (2017) (10)
The World Social Forum, a Globalisation from Below? (2008) (8)
Alter-Europe: Progressive activists and Europe (2015) (8)
From Local Ethnographies to Global Movement: Experience, Subjectivity, and Power among Four Alter-Globalization Actors (2013) (6)
A decade of World Social Forums: Internationalization without institutionalization?” (2012) (6)
June 2013, Five Years Later: Polarization, Reconfiguration of Activism, and Challenges for the Brazilian Left (2019) (5)
Beyond Occupy : Progressive activists in Europe (2012) (4)
Local food movements: from prefigurative activism to social innovations (2017) (4)
Cross-Movement Mobilization and New Modes of Solidarity in Times of Crisis in the Global North and South (2020) (4)
From disillusionment to a new culture of participation : young alter-globalization activists'commitment (2005) (4)
The reconfiguration of social movements in post-2011 Romania (2019) (4)
Media practices and the challenge of political asymmetries (2016) (3)
Non-Destructive Determination of the Penetration Depth of Impregnation Materials (1999) (3)
Alter-globalization after the crisis (2010) (2)
Social movement thinking beyond the core (2017) (2)
Alter-Europe: four ways to deal with the crisis of representative democracy (2012) (2)
A quince años del levantamiento zapatista : alcances y retos de un movimiento local en la edad global (2013) (2)
Becoming actors in the global age: Alter-globalization, Occupy and beyond (2012) (2)
The global age: a social movement perspective (2015) (1)
Latin American Struggles| A Conversation with Geoffrey Pleyers: The Battlefields of Latin American Struggles and the Challenges of the Internet for Social Change (2015) (1)
A brief history of the alter-globalization movement (2013) (1)
Are France's #NuitDebout protests the start of a new political movement?, (2016) (1)
A Comparative Analysis of Coffee Fair Trade Arena in Tanzania and Nicaragua (2006) (1)
The global age and ecology. A social movement perspective (2015) (1)
Media, internet and social movements in the context of asymmetries, (2016) (1)
Social movements and the challenges of democracy in Latin America (2015) (1)
Analytical paper on Youth Participation. What do we mean by "participation"? (2014) (1)
The World Social Forum hits new ground (2012) (1)
The World Social Forum Challenge (2009) (1)
Paris Spring? Social media and the spread of European solidarity protests (2016) (1)
From political disillusionment to a new culture of participation : alter-globalization activists'commitment (2003) (1)
The local food movement in Belgium : from prefigurative activism to social innovations (2017) (1)
International NGOS and Self-Help Network : From Critics to Complementarities ? (2010) (1)
Treatment of Rising Damp with Hydrophobic Agents in Wet Conditions (1998) (0)
Researching Alter-globalization: Fieldwork and analyses (2012) (0)
Market, state, society and emancipation. Comments on Nancy Fraser keynote (2012) (0)
The Global Social Justice Movement (2009) (0)
A New Concept Protecting Concrete Surfaces (2013) (0)
Social movements and democracy in times of crisis. Comments on the talk by Donatella della Porta (2012) (0)
Global Movements and the Crisis (2010) (0)
Meetings of the European social movements against liberal globalisation (2001) (0)
Food movements in Brooklyn and at the US Social Forum (2010) (0)
The nature of new activism (2012) (0)
Social Movement Studies in a Polarized World : Critical Balances (2018) (0)
From the Conference of the Peoples of Bandung to the Bamako Appeal (2007) (0)
How to study transnational social movements (2011) (0)
The WorldSocial Forum lands in Africa (2007) (0)
The US Social Forum in perspective: insights from the European experience (2010) (0)
The Brooklyn Food Coalition: Local food to transform people and society (2016) (0)
A Renewal of Social Movements in Central and Eastern Europe (2016) (0)
The Subject as central principle of the alterglobalization movement (2004) (0)
Social Movements in Mexico in the first decade of the 21st century (2010) (0)
"Every movement claims it reinvents democracy". Indignados, mobilisers, experts and transition activists (2012) (0)
Grass-roots movements for sustainable, local and convivial consumption (2010) (0)
Whose voice counts ? The "Poverty issue" and the alter-globalization movement (2006) (0)
Reconfiguring Ecology in the Twenty-First–Century. Social Movements as Producers of the Global Age (2020) (0)
Cultural activism and its limits (2010) (0)
How Environmental Movements Shape the Global (2016) (0)
Ten years of World Social Forum (2011) (0)
Research-based Analysis and Monitoring of Ersamus+: Youth in Action. Results of the 2015/2016 Survey. Country analysis Belgium/ French-speaking participants from Brussels and Wallonia (2016) (0)
Alter-globalization in a post-Washington Consensus era. Three perspectives in the struggle against poverty (2009) (0)
Experience and expertise in the global social justice movement (2006) (0)
The Brooklyn Food Coalition: Food movements: From the consumption society to a consumers' society? (2011) (0)
Youth radicality and radical mouvements. A synthesis (2011) (0)
Experiences of Student Mobility and Self Construction (2008) (0)
Alter-Globalization. Becoming Actor in the Global Age - (Préface d'Alain Touraine) (2010) (0)
Beyond cosmopolitan perspectives on globalisation (2008) (0)
Alter-Globalization. Book launch (2011) (0)
Globalization and social movements in the last decade: De-coupling internationalization and institutionalization? (2012) (0)
Alter-Globalization. Actors in the Global Age (2011) (0)
The rise of an ‘indocile middle class’ in Cameroon (2022) (0)
How food activists convince their neighbors: information, choice and meanings (2011) (0)
Grassroots movements for alternative food: a social movement perspective (2010) (0)
A Decade of World Social Forums (2012) (0)
Autonomy in the alter-globalization movement: theories, cultures, and practices (2010) (0)
Nuit Debout. Citizens are back in the squares in Paris (2016) (0)
Citizens’ mobilizations in Russia : subjective transformations and attraction towards leadership (2013) (0)
Subjectivation et Désubjectivation. Penser le sujet autour de Michel Wieviorka (2017) (0)
An uprising worldwide social movement against liberal globalisation (2001) (0)
Young activists and the alter-global movement (2007) (0)
From Alter-globalization to Occupy. The new activism, its promises and its limits (2012) (0)
Experiencing Another World (2010) (0)
Progressive pro-European networks. Preliminary results (2012) (0)
Indignados, mobilisers, experts and transition activists and their claims for democracy (2012) (0)
Incorporating Youth or Transforming Politics ? Alter-Activism as an Emerging Mode of Praxis among Young Global Justice Activists (2011) (0)
WSF and political program (2006) (0)
Globalization and social movements: De-coupling internationalization and institutionalization? (2012) (0)
Alternative Lifestyles and Political Activism Towards a New Environmentalism: Climate Summits, 'Buen Vivir', Local Food and Voluntary Simplifiers (2014) (0)
La vulnérabilité: condition de la subjectivation, obstacle à l’acteur? (2016) (0)
Experience and subjectivity to become actors in the global age (2011) (0)
First Forum of Local Governments of the European Union, Latin America and the Caribbean (2007) (0)
From alter-globalization to post-2011 activism (2013) (0)
Alter-globalization in Mexico. Limits and challenges of the Mexican global justice movements and civil society (2011) (0)
Alter-globalization after the 2008 WTO summit in Geneva (2008) (0)
Late youth experiences in an Indian global city. Four categories of youth in Bangalore (2010) (0)
Youth alter-activism: assemblies, protest and critical consumption (2013) (0)
Democracy, Social Justice and Social Agency in the Global Age (2012) (0)
The Battlefields of Latin American Struggles and the Challenges of the Internet for Social Change – Centre tricontinental (2020) (0)
From local ethnography to global movements. Experience, Subjectivity and Power among four alter-globalization movements (2013) (0)
A new generation of movements (2012) (0)
World Social Forum: Challenges of a new generation (2009) (0)
Social Movements in Mexico: Local Roots, Global Struggles (2016) (0)
Alter-Globalization in light of the cosmopolitan/democratic global governance debate (2011) (0)
Food Movements at the Second US Social Forum (2011) (0)
Progressive youth and forms of counter-democracy in Europe (2013) (0)
Under fire : NGOs in the alter-global movement (2006) (0)
Alter-globalization after the global crisis (2011) (0)
The ‘indignados’ in a broader context. Civil society and concepts of democracy (2012) (0)
Locally and globally oriented actors in the alter-globalization movement (2006) (0)
Globalization, alter-globalization and young people in the globalization process (2005) (0)
Movements of 2011: Brokers, networks and meanings (2013) (0)
Concepts and Practices of (Counter-)Democracy in the 2010s Movements (2014) (0)
The Global Age. Challenges of Living on a limited Planet (2015) (0)
The Global Age outlook (2016) (0)
Social actors and movements toward a local empowerment in Mexico (2008) (0)
MobilizingResistanceWithin Globalization (2011) (0)
Challenges of having network voices heard in the international arena: network’s relation to other civil society actors and public opinions (2009) (0)
Social Movements in a Polarized World. Seven Years after 2011 (2018) (0)
Progressive activists in Europe: culture of activism and European identities (2012) (0)
Alter-Globalization. Author meets critics (2012) (0)
Introduction: Ouvrir un dialogue (2017) (0)
The Way of Subjectivity. Cultural Activism in the Global Justice Movement (2010) (0)
Indignados and occupiers: A reactive, creative and democratic movement (2012) (0)
Progressive activists in Europe (2012) (0)
Local empowerment and its limits (2008) (0)
From Global Justice to Occupy: Reinventing Democracy in the Alterglobalization Movement- (2012) (0)
Perception and appropriation of the Free Trade by the coffee producers members of CECOCAFEN (area of Matagalpa, Nicaragua) (2003) (0)
The 2009 World Social Forum Challenge : Coping with alter-globalization new guidelines and divisions (2009) (0)
Facebook movements or square movements (2015) (0)
The Global Social Justice Movement: A Globalisation from Below? (2006) (0)
The 2009 World Social Forum challenge – CETRI, Centre Tricontinental (2019) (0)
Alter-Globalization: three paths towards a more sustainable world (2013) (0)
Opening Keynote: The Global Justice Movement in Europe since the Crisis (2012) (0)
Generations of Global Citizenship in Action, Keynote (2012) (0)
Progressive activists in Europe and their concepts of democracy (2012) (0)
For a global sociology of social movements. Beyond methodological globalism and extractivism (2023) (0)
Reflections on risks and opportunities for youth participation in the field of democracy and political participation (2015) (0)
The Alter-global movement and new paradigms (2006) (0)
Youth Participation in Different Forms of Regional and Local Democracy (2014) (0)
Decentralization and local movements: tensions and complementarities (2008) (0)
The Global Social Justice Movement and Beyond (2010) (0)
New Directions on Social Movements, Contentious Politics, and Futures Research (2016) (0)
Sociology and Social Movements in the Global South (2018) (0)
Eight Years after 2001. Social Movements and Social Movement Studies in a Polarized World (2018) (0)
In Defense of the Concept of Social Movement. Social Movements As Meanings and As a Dimension of Action (2018) (0)
Young progressive activists in Europe. Scales, identity and agency (2016) (0)
Un "penser global" de la subjectivation (2017) (0)
Contesting or Complementing Representative Democracy? Experiments and tensions in the alter-globalization and occupiers’ Movements (2012) (0)