Global Movements: Action and Culture

The past decade has witnessed an extraordinary rise of new global movements that throw into question the way we think about culture, power, and action in a globalizing world. This book surveys the field and explores some of the most significant of these movements, including antiglobalization and new Islamic movements.
These movements require a rethinking of the very idea of social movement, a concept that owes a great deal to the civic and industrial culture that was so critical to Western modernity, but may be less adequate when exploring forms of culture, action, and communication in a globalized world. This book explores key dimensions of these movements, the tensions they confront, and the crises to which they are subject. It will provide an essential text for students on globalization and social movements.


Spis treści:
Acknowledgments and Preface.
Part I: Movements and Globalization.
1. Globalization.
2. Movements and Action.
Part II: From Antiglobalization to Grammars of Experience.
3. Direct Action: From Community to Experience.
4. The New Humanitarianism.
5. Grammars of Experience.
Part III: Global Modernities, Grammars of Action.
6. Zapatista Dreaming: Memory and the Mask.
7. Healing Movements, Embodied Subjects.
8. Global Islam: Modernity’s Other?.
9. Islamic Makings of The Self.
Part IV: Paradigms of Action and Cutlure.
10. Rethinking Movements.
Index

Nota biograficzna:
Kevin McDonald is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Melbourne. He is the author of Struggles for Subjectivity: Identity, Action and Youth Experience (1999) and Pressing Questions: Explorations in Sociology (2nd ed., 2000).

Okładka tylna:
The past decade has witnessed an extraordinary rise of new global movements that throw into question the way we think about culture, power, and action in a globalizing world . This book surveys the field and explores some of the most significant of these movements, including antiglobalization and new Islamic movements.
These movements require a rethinking of the very idea of social movement, a concept that owes a great deal to the civic and industrial culture that was so critical to Western modernity, but may be less adequate when exploring forms of culture, action, and communication in a globalized world. This book explores key dimensions of these movements, the tensions they confront, and the crises to which they are subject. It will provide an essential text for students on globalization and social movements.