Complexity and Social Movements: Multitudes at the Edge of Chaos ...

natural sciences, advances in 164 n.3
Neale, J. 82, 85
Negri, T. 3, 17, 19, 37, 43, 65,
94, 99, 104, 129, 137, 138,
151, 170 n.8
neo-liberalism/neo-liberal: ascendancy
40, 96; axiom of free trade 96; and
complexity 35; contractualisation of
everyday life 162; eugenics 68;
global 40, 65; paradigm 8; summary
of campaign against 28
Netherlands 47
network/s 19–20; actors 28; analyses
129; cohesion of activist groups
within Czech Republic 63; forms,
‘aristocratic’ and ‘egalitarian’ 65;
global 27–37, 94, 96–100; hubs 42;
linkages, across national borders
with 49; multipliers 46; non-linear
106; small world 92; sociality 105;
society 96, 169 n.2; subterranean
62, 101
network of networks 67, 103, 105,
156, 161
The New York Times 72
NGOs see Non Governmental
Organisations
Nistu Muri Square 64
nomadism 150; in science 4, 8,
154, 155
Non Governmental Organisations
(NGOs) 26, 28, 156; assimilation of
9; influence of larger 124;
management and delivery of
‘development’ programmes 95
non-violence 85
North American Free Trade Agreement
(NAFTA) 70, 109
Norway 47
Notes from Nowhere 2, 34, 72, 82
nuclear power 154
Obando-Rojas, B. 5, 71
The Observer 79
Offe, C. 149
Ogoni people 26, 131
O’Neill, J. 68, 93
One Solution Revolution 145
online publishing by autonomous
actors 124
open space 125; constructing,
maintaining and developing
120–123; metaphor 126
Operaismo 138
Index 191
OPH, Czech legal support organisation
50, 65; legal rights monitors 165 n.7
ORA-Solidarita 166 n.14
Oregon ‘primitivist’ anarchists 167 n.8
Orr, D.W. 164 n.1
Osterweil, M. 101, 123, 142, 143
outsider/insider/other nexus 40
Oxfam 156
Oxford Circus 79
Packard, T. 46
Papal yellow 144
parallelogram of forces 128, 135,
151; empire multitude lines of
f(l)ight 153
Parliament Square 77, 82; on May Day
2000; peaceful demonstration in 76
Parnet, C. 129, 136
participation 118; by Europeans and
North Americans 120
Patton, P. 137
peace activists 113
Pearson, K.A. 41
Pelaez, E. 109
People’s Global Action (PGA) 3, 51,
89, 99, 103, 108, 116, 120, 126,
168 n.5; actions or spaces catalysed
by 120; conference in Leiden 117;
founding conference in Geneva 112,
113; global conference 119; groups
and movements inspired by 116;
hall-marks 114, 116, 118, 119, 127;
International conferences 120;
multiplier effect/affect 115–120;
network 112–113, 119; secretariat
116; as ‘smoothing force’ 117; Third
International Conference 112
periphery/peripheries 123–125; and
‘core’ countries 95
Pfohl, S. 33
PGA see People’s Global Action
Piazza Alimondo 84
Pink and Silver 48, 55, 64; carnival
dress codes 53; diaspora 59; march
54, 58, 65; on streets of Prague 83
Pinochet 86
Pisnau, G. 86
planetary action system 4, 16, 124;
and ecology of action 158
plateaux 20–21, 90, 102, 103, 105,
108; concrete contestation in 66; in
Prague 62–64
plurality 118; models of interest
representation and inclusion 15