The History of Social Movements in Global Perspective A Survey [Hardcover]

Social movements have shaped and are shaping modern societies around the globe; this is evident when we look at examples such as the Arab Spring, Spains Indignados and the wider Occupy movement. In this volume, experts analyse the classic and new social movements from a uniquely global perspective and offer insights in current theoretical discussions on social mobilisation. Chapters are devoted both to the study of continental developments of social movements going back to the nineteenth century and ranging to the present day, and to an emphasis on the transnational dimension of these movements. Interdisciplinary and truly international, this book is an essential text on social movements for historians, political scientists, sociologists, philosophers and social scientists.

Introduction: Towards a Global History of Social Movements by Stefan Berger and Holger Nehring. - PART I: Conceptual, Methodological and Theoretical Considerations 1. - Studying Social Movements: Some Conceptual Challenges by Dieter Rucht 2. - Subaltern Studies as a History of Social Movements in India by Rochona Majumdar 3. - Trans-Pacific Feminism: Writing Womens Movement from a Transnational Perspective by Seonjoo Park. - PART II: Continental Perspectives on the History of Social Movements 4. - Social Movements in Latin America from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Centuries by Claudia Wassermann. - 5 Dissident Political History: Social Movements in Northern America by Felicia Kornbluh 6. - European Social Protest, 1000 - 2000 by Marcel van der Linden 7. - Social Movements in Africa by Andreas Eckert 8. - Popular Movements in the Middle East and North Africa by John Chalcraft 9. - Social Movements in India, 1800 to the Present by Arvind Elangovan 10. - Subjectivation and Social Movements in Post-Colonial Korea by Jung Han Kim. - 11 The History of Social Movements in Australia by Sean Scalmer. - PART III: Social Movements in Transnatl“+