Globalization and Social Movements
β Scribed by Pierre Hamel, Henri Lustiger-Thaler, Jan Nederveen Pieterse, Sasha Roseneil (eds.)
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Year
- 2001
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 265
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction: the Shifting Global Frames of Collective Action....Pages 1-18
Front Matter....Pages 19-19
Globalization and Collective Action....Pages 21-40
Towards a Theory of Global Collective Action and Institutions....Pages 41-60
Globalizing Civil Society? Social Movements and the Challenge of Global Politics from Below....Pages 61-85
Front Matter....Pages 87-87
The Global, the Local and the Personal: The Dynamics of a Social Movement in Postmodernity....Pages 89-110
Transnational Feminist Networks: Collective Action in an Era of Globalization....Pages 111-139
Global Feminist Theorizing and Organizing: Life-Centred and Multi-Centred Alternatives to Neoliberal Globalization....Pages 140-165
Globalization and the Mobilization of Gay and Lesbian Communities....Pages 166-179
Front Matter....Pages 181-181
Cross-Border, Cross-Movement Alliances in the Late 1990s....Pages 183-205
Collective Movements and Globalization....Pages 206-226
Environmental Movements in the Global South: Outline of a Critique of the βLivelihoodβ Approach....Pages 227-247
Back Matter....Pages 248-258
β¦ Subjects
Sociology, general; Political Economy; Gender Studies; International Relations; Globalization
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