Globalisation - critical recontructions (review essay)Lebeda, Petr (Avtor) alternativesPorto Alegre movementreconstructive postmodernismresistanceWorld Social ForumThe current process of globalisation has been subject to increasing resistance. This essay reviews three books that attempt to substantiate the critique and explores perspectives of political alternatives. First, the nature of globalisation is deconstructed as a global, but exlusivist, political project, which is run through the nation-states, weakened as they are. Political responses to such instability vary - from modernisation approaches, regional co-operation and transnational solidarity, to right-wing backlash politics. On top of their particular idiosyncracies, such mainstream responses are based on the dominance of the nation-state, the global North, and give up on a systemic change. The reconstructive postmodernism suggested by the books instead syntheses the structuralist and postmodern approaches. Concepts such as politics of place, normative democracy or various post-development experiments are already practised by the emerging global civil society. Finally, the theoretical contributions are contrasted with the promises and limitations of the current politics of resistance, namely the Porto Alegre movement20032022-03-30 13:45:02Članek v reviji135837sl