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 | | Environmentalism, which at the beginning of the 1980s was still largely perceived as radical and marginal, has become so mainstream that many 'Third World' countries see it as another conveyor of imperial domination. |
 | | In New York City, the Diallo and related cases has highlighted the instantaneous internationalism of a highly local event: it raises questions about migration and citizenship, 'revanchism' as an urban authoritarian engagement with globalization, and the possibilities for cross-national organizing around very local events. |
 | | Among these and many other events, it may be possible to see the glimmerings of a "new internationalism" which simultaneously accepts the greater interconnectedness of different places, cultures and politics, yet strives for a more popular, bottom up vision of global community. |
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