Globalizations and social movements : culture, power, and the transnational public sphere / edited by John A. Guidry, Michael D. Kennedy, and Mayer N. Zald.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Guidry, John A.

Kennedy, Michael D.

Zald, Mayer N.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social movements--History--20th century.

Social movements.

Social history.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (427 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Explores how globalization affects social movements in different countries.

Contents:

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 - 93 Chapter 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 1920's

Chapter 10. Politics and Play: Sport, Social Movements, and Decolonization in Cuba and the British West Indies Chapter 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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 359-385) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-43771-2

9786612437717

0-472-02341-1

OCLC:

743199516