Globalization and Resistance: Transnational Dimensions of Social Movements - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0742519902 ISBN 13: 9780742519909

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2002

Synopsis

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.

About this title

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.

Review:

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, Cornell University, author of Power in Movement and The New Transnational Activism)

About this edition

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0742519902
• ISBN 13: 9780742519909
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 264
• Editor: Smith Jackie, Johnston Hank