Before climate became headline language and “late capitalism” dinner-table shorthand, Naomi Klein was on the ground, filing from protests, summits, blockades and courtrooms.

 Fences and Windows gathers those dispatches: sharp, immediate essays written from the fault lines of the globalisation debate in the late 1990s and early 2000s. She tracks the rise of corporate power, trade agreements, sweatshop resistance, media spectacle, and the strange choreography between police lines and protest lines. The title gestures toward two impulses: the instinct to barricade and the instinct to look out, connect, imagine alternatives.

The chants, the tear gas, the improvisation of movements finding their language in real time, this is reportage with a pulse and is still useful as a snapshot of a moment when “globalisation” felt both inevitable and newly contestable.