Institute for Nonviolent Economics

GLOBALIZATION AND LOCALIZATION RESOURCES

Recommended Books, Magazines, Alternative Media, Study Guides, and Organizations. Compiled by The Institute for Nonviolent Economics

BOOKS
Globalization
When Corporations Rule the World, by David Korten
The Case Against the Global Economy and For a Turn toward the Local, edited by Jerry Mander and Edward Goldsmith
Whose Trade Organization?: Corporate Globalization and the Erosion of Democracy, Lori Wallach and Michelle Sforza
The Battle in Seattle: The Story Behind and Beyond the WTO Demonstrations, by Janet Thomas
Defying Corporations, Defining Democracy: A Book of History and Strategy, edited by Dean Ritz, published by POCLAD 508-398-1145
Marketing Madness: A Survival Guide for a Consumer Society, by Michael Jacobson and Laurie Ann Mazur
The Divine Right of Capital, by Marjorie Kelly
Profit over People: Neoliberalism and the Global Order, by Noam Chomsky
No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies, Naomi Klein
Off the Map: An Expedition Deep into Imperialism, the Global Economy, and Other Earthly Whereabouts, Chellis Glendinning

Alternatives
A Better World is Possible, go to www.ifg.org
In the Presence of Fear, by Wendell Berry
Going Local: Creating Self-Reliant Communities in a Global Age, Michael Shuman
The Hometown Advantage: How to Defend Your Main Street Against Chain Stores . . . And Why it Matters, by Stacy Mitchell, published by Institute for Local Self-Reliance612-379-3815
Eco-Economy, Lester Brown
Greening the North: A Post-Industrial Blueprint for Ecology and Equity, by Wolfgang Sachs, Reinhard Loske, Manfred Linz et al.
Localization: A Global Manifesto, by Colin Hines
Short Circuit: Strengthening Local Economies for Security in an Unstable World, by Richard Douthwaite
The Post Corporate World, by David Korten
Globalizing Civil Society: Reclaiming Our Right to Power, David Korten
The Living Wage: Building a Fair Economy, by Robert Pollin and Stephanie Luce

General
Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered, E.F. Schumacher
Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh, by Helena Norberg Hodge
People, Land, and Community, edited by Hildegarde Hannum
Eyes of the Heart: A Path for the Poor in the Age of Globalization, by Jean Bertrand Aristide
The Great Work, by Thomas Berry
For the Common Good: Redirecting the Economy to Community, the Environment, and a Sustainable Future, by Herman Daly and John Cobb, Jr.
Staying Alive: Women, Ecology, and Development, by Vandana Shiva
In the Absence of the Sacred, by Jerry Mander
The Resurgence of the Real: Body, Nature, and Place in a Hypermodern World, Charlene Spretnak

Agriculture
The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture, by Wendell Berry
The Corporate Reapers: The Book of Agribusiness, by A.V. Krebs
Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply, by Vandana Shiva
Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge, by Vandana Shiva
The Biotech Century: Harnessing the Gene and Remaking the World, Jeremy Rifkin

Nonviolence
The Politics of Nonviolent Action, by Gene Sharp
Gandhi the Man: The Story of his Transformation, by Eknath Easwaran
All Men are Brothers, Gandhi
Conquest of Violence: The Gandhian Philosophy of Conflict, by Joan Bondurant
Why We Can’t Wait, by Martin Luther King, Jr.
A Force More Powerful: A Century of Nonviolent Conflict, by Peter Ackerman and Jack Duvall (this book accompanies the PBS series)
The Power of the People: Active Nonviolence in the United States, edited by Robert Cooney and Helen Michalowski

MAGAZINES
Yes! Magazine, published by the Positive Futures Network, 1-800-937-4451, www.futurenet.org
The Ecologist, to subscribe: email sgc@mag-subs.demon.co.uk, or call 510-548-4915
Third World Resurgence, www.twnside.org.sg, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Rachel’s Environment and Health Weekly, www.rachel.org
Multinational Monitor, Wash., DC, www.essential.org/monitor
Adbusters, Vancouver, BC, www.adbusters.org
Corporate Watch, San Francisco, CA., www.corpwatch.org
Orion Magazine, Great Barrington, Ma, www.orionsociety.org
New Village Journal, www.newvillage.net/newvillage.html

STUDY GUIDES (collections of wonderful articles):
Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, www.wilpf.org/corp/cintro.htm
International Society for Ecology and Culture, http://www.isec.org.uk/homepage160401.html

ALTERNATIVE MEDIA

Democracy Now!
Alternative Radio, 800-444-1977, www.alternativeradio.org
Independent Media Center, Seattle, Wa. www.indymedia.org
Counterpoint, www.fair.org
Hightower Radio, www.webactive.org
Alternet, www.alternet.org/issues/index
Foreign Policy in Focus, www.foreignpolicy-infocus.org