Globalization and Resistance: Transnational Dimensions of Social Movements

by Jackie Smith University of Pittsburgh (Editor), Hank Johnston (Editor), Jeffrey M. Ayres (Contribution by), Beth Schaefer Caniglia (Contribution by), Sean Chabot (Contribution by)

Overview

Globalization and Resistance brings together cutting-edge theory and research about how global economics and politics alter the way ordinary people engage in contentious political action. The cases range from nineteenth-century Irish immigrant networks, to protests against World Bank projects in the Amazon, to contemporary transnational organizing for the environment, to the 'battle of Seattle.' The volume illuminates the reciprocal effects between globalization processes and social movements.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781461636939
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	08/15/2002
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	264
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Jackie Smith is associate professor of sociology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Hank Johnston is editor of Mobilization: An International Journal and lecturer in sociology at San Diego State University.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 1 Globalization and Resistance: An Introduction
Part 2 I Theories of Globalization and Social Movement Mobilization
Chapter 3 2 Explaining Crossnational Similarities Among Social Movements
Chapter 4 3 Transnational Structures and Protest: Linking Theories and Assessing Evidence
Part 5 II Transnational Mobilization and National Politics
Chapter 6 4 Irish Transnational Social Movements, Migrants, and the State System
Chapter 7 5 Conservation TSMOs: Shaping the Protected Area Systems of Less Developed Countries
Part 8 III Transnational Diffusion and Framing Processes
Chapter 9 6 Transnational Diffusion and the African American Reinvention of the Ghandian Repertoire
Chapter 10 7 From Local to Global: The Anti-Dam Movement in Southern Brazil, 1979-1992
Chapter 11 8 Creating Transnational Solidarity: The Use of Narrative in the U. S.- Central America Peace Movement
Part 12 IV Transnational Networks
Chapter 13 9 Elite Alliances and Transnational Environmental Movement Organizations
Chapter 14 10 Building Networks from the Outside In: Japanese NGOs and the Kyoto Climate Change Conference
Part 15 V Protest and the Global Trade Regime
Chapter 16 11 Transnational Political Processes and Contention Against the Global Economy
Chapter 17 12 Globalizing Resistance: The Battle of Seattle and the Future of Social Movements
Part 18 Conclusion
Chapter 19 13 From Lumping to Spiltting: Specifying Globalization and Resistance

Editorial Reviews

The eclectic mix of topics and approaches proves both interesting and stimulating. One of the more interesting attempts to develop social movement studies so as to recognize adequately the breadth, depth and significance of transnational activism.

Political Studies Review

Shifting from the broad canvas of globalization to the finer fabric of the mechanisms of activism is a step that will take us far in understanding the dynamics of transnational contention. That step has been mightily advanced by the contributions to this book.

Sidney Tarrow

Shifting from the broad canvas of globalization to the finer fabric of the mechanisms of activism is a step that will take us far in understanding the dynamics of transnational contention. That step has been mightily advanced by the contributions to this book.--Sidney Tarrow, Cornell University, author of Power in Movement and The New Transnational Activism

The eclectic mix of topics and approaches proves both interesting and stimulating. One of the more interesting attempts to develop social movement studies so as to recognize adequately the breadth, depth and significance of transnational activism.--Political Studies Review

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