Globalization and resistance : transnational dimensions of social movements / edited by Jackie Smith and Hank Johnston.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Smith, Jackie, 1968-

Johnston, Hank, 1947-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social movements.

Globalization.

Physical Description:

vi, 257 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, [2002]

Summary:

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 different ways that globalization processes affect social movements, and vice versa.

Contents:

1 Globalization and Resistance: An Introduction / Jackie Smith, Hank Johnston 1

Part I Theories of Globalization and Social Movement Mobilization

2 Explaining Cross-national Similarities among Social Movements / Marco G. Giugni 13

3 Transnational Structures and Protest: Linking Theories and Assessing Evidence / Gregory M. Maney 31

Part II Transnational Mobilization and National Politics

4 Irish Transnational Social Movements, Migrants, and the State System / Michael Hanagan 53

5 Conservation TSMOs: Shaping the Protected Area Systems of Less Developed Countries / Tammy L. Lewis 75

Part III Transnational Diffusion and Framing Processes

6 Transnational Diffusion and the African-American Reinvention of the Gandhian Repertoire / Sean Chabot 97

7 From Local to Global: The Anti-dam Movement in Southern Brazil, 1979-1992 / Franklin Daniel Rothman, Pamela E. Oliver 115

8 Creating Transnational Solidarity: The Use of Narrative in the U.S.-Central America Peace Movement / Sharon Erickson Nepstad 133

Part IV Transnational Networks

9 Elite Alliances and Transnational Environmental Movement Organizations / Beth Schaefer Caniglia 153

10 Building Networks from the Outside In: Japanese NGOs and the Kyoto Climate Change Conference / Kim D. Reimann 173

Part V Protest and the Global Trade Regime

11 Transnational Political Processes and Contention against the Global Economy / Jeffrey M. Ayres 191

12 Globalizing Resistance: The Battle of Seattle and the Future of Social Movements / Jackie Smith 207

13 From Lumping to Splitting: Specifying Globalization and Resistance / Sidney Tarrow 229.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0742519899

0742519902

OCLC:

49679824