Global Movements Action and Culture [Paperback]

Over the past decade we have witnessed the extraordinary rise of new global movements that throw into question the way we think about culture, power and action in a globalizing world.

• 
  
• Examines three of the most significant global social movements of the last decade: anti-globalization, new Islamic movements, and the Falun Gong in China.
  
• Explores key dimensions of these movements, the tensions they confront, and the crises that created them.
  
• Demonstrates how these global movements require a rethinking of the very idea of social movements

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

Global Movements presents a vast body of literature and research and is written in a clear prose that makes it accessible to students. (Social Movement Studies, October 2010)

“Global Movements is essential reading for all those trying to understand our twenty-first-century society. It islS%