Globalizations and Social Movements : Culture, Power, and the Transnational Public Sphere.
Globalization is a set of processes that are weakening national boundaries. Both transnational and local social movements develop to resist the processes of globalization--migration, economic interdependence, global media coverage of events and issues, and intergovernmental relations. Globalization...
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University of Michigan Press
2009
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Table of Contents:
- Preface and Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. Globalizations and Social Movements; PART I. MOVEMENTS IN GLOBALIZED SPACE; Chapter 2. Historical Precursors to Modern Transnational Social Movements and Networks; Chapter 3. State Terror, Constitutional Traditions, and National Human Rights Movements: A Cross-National Quantitative Comparison; Chapter 4. Distant Issue Movements in Germany: Empirical Description and Theoretical Reflections; PART II. GLOBALIZATIONS AND MOVEMENTS IN NATION-STATES.
- Chapter 5. The Irrelevance of Nationalism (the Relevance of Globalism)? Cultural Frames of Collective Protest in Postcommunist Poland, 1989
- 93Chapter 6. Global and Local Framing of Maternal Identity: Obligation and the Mothers of Matagalpa, Nicaragua; Chapter 7. The Useful State? Social Movements and the Citizenship of Children in Brazil; PART III. MOVEMENTS, IDENTITIES, CULTURAL TRANSFORMATIONS; Chapter 8. Refugees, Resistance, and Identity; Chapter 9. Confronting Contradictions and Negotiating Identities: Taiwanese Doctors' Anticolonialism in the 1920s.
- Chapter 10. Politics and Play: Sport, Social Movements, and Decolonization in Cuba and the British West IndiesChapter 11. Social Memory as Collective Action: The Crimean Tatar National Movement; Chapter 12. The Russian Neo-Cossacks: Militant Provincials in the Geoculture of Clashing Civilizations; Chapter 13. Religious Nationalism in India and Global Fundamentalism; PART IV. REFLECTIONS; Chapter 14. Adjusting the Lens: What Do Globalizations, Transnationalism, and the Anti-apartheid Movement Mean for Social Movement Theory?; Bibliography; Contributors; Index.
