Power and Transnational Activism [Hardcover]

This book focuses on global activism and uses a power perspective to provide an in-depth and coherent analysis of both the possibilities and limitations of global activism.

Bringing together scholars from IR, sociology, and political science, this book offers new and critical insights on global activism and power. It features case studies on the following social and political issues: China and Tibet, HIV/AIDS, climate change, child labour, the WTO, women and the UN, the global public sphere, regional integration, national power, world social forums, policing, media power and global civil society.

It will be of interest to students and scholars of globalization, global sociology and international politics.

1. Introduction: Power and Transnational Activist Framing Thomas Olesen.  Critiques and Appraisals  2. Counter-Power in the Global Age: Strategies of Civil Society Movements Ulrich Beck  3. Evading the Challenge: The Limits of Global Activism David Chandler  4. Coordinated Power in Contemporary Leftist Activism Ruth Reitan.  The State and the National  5. The Limits of Power and Protest: Civil Society Mobilization against North American Integration Jeffrey Ayres  6. State Power and the Control of Transnational Protests Donatella della Porta andHerbert Reiter  7. China and the Limits of Transnational Human Rights Activism: From Tiananmen Square to the Beijing Olympics Caroline Fleay  8. State-Led Social Boundary Change: Transnational Environmental Activism, Eco-Terrorism and September 11 Shannon Gibson  9. National Origin and Transnational Activism Sarah Stroup.  Representation and Discourse  10. The Representational Power of Civil Society Orgl,