Social Movements and Globalization

How Protests, Occupations and Uprisings are Changing the World

Cristina Flesher Fominaya (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

248 Seiten

2014
Red Globe Press (Verlag)
978-0-230-36087-7 (ISBN)

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A cutting-edge and original analysis of contemporary social movements in a globalized world, providing a clear and comprehensive grounding in social movement and globalization theory and drawing on a range of case studies and examples from around the world, from Anonymous and 15-M/Indignados to the Zapatistas.

Cristina Flesher Fominaya is Reader in Social Politics and Media at Loughborough University, UK, and was Senior Marie Curie Fellow at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth from 2013-2015. She is a founding editor of the global social movements journal Interface and an editor of the journal Social Movement Studies. She is also founder of the Council for European Studies Social Movement Research Network.

1. Introduction.- 2. Social Movements and Globalization: Concepts and Debates.- 3. Globalization and Social Movements.- 4. The Global Justice Movement.- 5. Cultural Resistance in a Globalized World.- 6. Social Movements, Media, and Information and Communication Technologies.- 7. Arab Spring, Indignados, Occupy: A Global Wave of Protest?.- 8. Conclusion.

Reihe/Serie	Sociology for Globalizing Societies
Reihe/Serie	Sociology for Globalizing Societies
Zusatzinfo	248 p.
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	391 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	0-230-36087-4 / 0230360874
ISBN-13	978-0-230-36087-7 / 9780230360877
Zustand	Neuware