New Releases by Naomi Klein

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.

No Logo, el anterior bestseller de Naomi Klein traducido a veintitrés idiomas, daba forma a las preocupaciones de toda una generación y constituía la crónica de un nuevo movimiento. Tras el éxito de este libro, Klein ha seguido contribuyendo incansablemente al actual debate sobre la globalización, su impacto y su futuro, hasta dar forma al presente volumen, en el que se reflejan dos años de su vida particularmente intensos, vividos entre manifestaciones multitudinarias e informes realizados en primera línea de fuego. Con todo ello nos pone al día de todas las iniciativas de cambio y de sus posibilidades, de las esperanzas y de los obstáculos que se deben superar. Para conseguirlo recopila sus artículos y conferencias más importantes, la mayoría de estas últimas inéditas hasta el momento, y el resultado es, de nuevo, una reflexión sobre la resistencia en el mundo actual: protestas callejeras que arrastran a miles de jóvenes, actividades subversivas a través de los nuevos medios de comunicación, movimientos que ocultan una enorme fuerza tras su aparente desorganización... Provocativo, inteligente y apasionado, Vallas y ventanas es una guía para la supervivencia en la economía de hoy, un análisis de la globalización y sus consecuencias, así como un documento sobre una época única en la historia.

The hotly debated report from the frontlines of mounting backlash against multinational corporations. A national bestseller, No Logo took Canadians by storm when it was published last year in hardcover. Equal parts cultural analysis, political manifesto, mall-rat memoir, and journalistic exposé, it is the first book to uncover a betrayal of the central promises of the information age: choice, interactivity, and increased freedom. No Logo takes apart our packaged and branded world and puts the pieces into clear pop-historical and economic perspective. Naomi Klein tracks the resistance and self-determination mounting in the face of our new branded world and explains why some of the most revered brands in the world are finding themselves on the wrong end of a bottle of spray paint, a computer hack, or an international anti-corporate campaign.