Social Movements in a Globalizing World - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0333739817 ISBN 13: 9780333739815

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 1999

Synopsis

The growing interdependence on a global scale, which characterizes the human condition at the turn of the century, constitutes a challenge for both the mobilization of social movements and social movement theory. The present volume attempts to adjust the perspective of the 'political process' approach to a world in which political opportunities, mobilizing structures, framing processes and collective action of social movements are no longer confined to national political contexts. The contributors discuss various implications of a globalizing world on the mobilization for collective action within national contexts (cross-national diffusion of protest, inter-national opportunities and constraints for national mobilization, national social movements engaged in two-level games, as well as new forms of mobilization beyond the nation-state) as well as the creation of transnational mobilizing structures, collective action for supranational issues and the mobilization of social movements in the supranational arena.

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About the Author

HANSPETER KRIESI is Professor of Political Science at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. He has published several books and articles on Swiss politics, comparative politics and social movements. He is a co-author of New Social Movements in Western Europe: A Comparative Analysis (1995). DONATELLA DELLA PORTA is Professor of Political Science at the University of Florence, Italy. Among her recent publications are: Social Movements, Political Violence and the State, Policing Protest (co-edited with Herbert Reiter); Social Movements (co-authored with Mario Diani) and Corrupt Exchanges (co-authored with Alberto Vannucci). DIETER RUCHT is Professor of Sociology at the University of Kent at Canterbury since 1998. He received his PhD at the University of Munich. Currently he is engaged in a study on the patterns of protest in Germany since 1950, an analysis of the public discourse on abortion in Germany and the USA, and a study on the transformation of environmental activism in Europe.

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0333739817
• ISBN 13: 9780333739815
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Kriesi Hanspeter, Porta Donatella Della, Rucht Dieter