Social movements and world-system transformation / edited by Jackie Smith, Michael Goodhart, Patrick Manning, John Markoff.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Smith, Jackie, 1968- editor.

Goodhart, Michael E., 1969- editor.

Manning, Patrick, 1941- editor.

Series:

Political economy of the world-system annuals

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social movements.

International organization.

Physical Description:

ix, 254 pages ; 24 cm cm.

Edition:

1 edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2016.

Summary:

At a particularly urgent world-historical moment, this volume brings together some of the leading researchers of social movements and global social change and other emerging scholars and practitioners to advance new thinking about social movements and global transformation. Social movements around the world today are responding to crisis by defying both political and epistemological borders, offering alternatives to the global capitalist order that are imperceptible through the modernist lens. Informed by a world-historical perspective, contributors explain today's struggles as building upon the experiences of the past while also coming together globally in ways that are inspiring innovation and consolidating new thinking about what a fundamentally different, more equitable, just, and sustainable world order might look like. This collection offers new insights into contemporary movements for global justice, challenging readers to appreciate how modernist thinking both colors our own observations and complicates the work of activists seeking to resolve inequities and contradictions that are deeply embedded in Western cultural traditions and institutions. Contributors consider today's movements in the longue durée-that is, they ask how Occupy Wall Street, the Arab Spring, and other contemporary struggles for liberation reflect, build upon, or diverge from anti-colonial and other emancipatory struggles of the past. Critical to this volume is its exploration of how divisions over gender equity and diversity of national cultures and class have impacted what are increasingly intersectional global movements. The contributions of feminist and indigenous movements come to the fore in this collective exploration of what the movements of yesterday and today can contribute to our ongoing effort to understand the dynamics of global transformation in order to help advance a more equitable, just, and ecologically sustainable world. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction: unthinking the world-system / Michael Goodhart, Patrick Manning, John Markoff, and Jackie Smith

Antisystemic movements, yesterday and today / Immanuel Wallerstein

Disrupting hegemonic discourses & modes of thought

The study of social movements in the modern-colonial world system / Janet Conway

Other moral orders : epistemology & resistance, the case of Israel/Palestine / Joyce Dalsheim

World-historical perspectives on emancipatory struggles & organizational logics

Linking social movement networks, 1989 to 1992 : Southeast Asia, Africa and South America / Patrick Manning

Contemporary social movements and media : the emergent nomadic political logic and its nervous system / Todd Wolfson and Peter Funke

Ideological imbalance post the credit crunch : neoliberalism versus the politics of resistance / Rafal Soborski

Practices and challenges in contemporary organizing across diversity

Exploring the persistence of gendered geographies of global justice / Manisha Desai

Religious others and global social justice movements / Lee Cormie

Transnational feminism and United Nations global conferences / Jackie Smith and Rachel Kutz-Flamenbaum, University of Pittsburgh

The politics of making life possible : towards buen vivir?

Indigeneity vs. "civilization" : indigenous alternatives to the planetary rift in the world-system ecology / Leonardo E. Figueroa Helland and Pratik Raghu

Spirituality and global capitalism : contested perspectives / Peter (Jay) Smith

Conclusion: transforming the world-system? what would revolution look like? / Jackie Smith, Michael Goodhart, Patrick Manning and John Markoff.

ISBN:

9781138208834

1138208833

9781138208841

1138208841

OCLC:

946580004