Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Globalization and Resistance brings together cutting edge theory and research about how global economics and politics alter the way ordinary people engage in contentious political action. The cases range from nineteenth-century Irish immigrant networks, to protests against World Bank projects in the Amazon, to contemporary transnational organizing for the environment, to the 'battle of Seattle.' The volume illuminates the different ways that globalization processes affect social movements, and vice versa.
Table of Contents
Globalization and resistance : an introduction / Jackie Smith and Hank Johnston -- Explaining cross-national similarities among social movements / Marco G. Giugni -- Transnational structures and protest : linking theories and assessing evidence / Gregory M. Maney -- Irish transnational social movements, migrants, and the state system / Michael Hanagan -- Conservation TSMOs : shaping the protected area systems of less developed countries / Tammy L. Lewis -- Transnational diffusion and the African-American reinvention of the Gandhian repertoire / Sean Chabot -- From local to global : the anti-dam movement in southern Brazil, 1979-1992 / Franklin Daniel Rothman and Pamela E. Oliver -- Creating transnational solidarity : the use of narrative in the U.S.-Central America peace movement / Sharon Erickson Nepstad -- Elite alliances and transnational environmental movement organizations / Beth Schaefer Caniglia -- Building networks from the outside in : Japanese NGOs and the Kyoto climate change conference / Kim D. Reimann -- Transnational political processes and contention against the global economy / Jeffrey M. Ayres -- Globalizing resistance : the battle of Seattle and the future of social movements / Jackie Smith -- From lumping to splitting : specifying globalization and resistance / Sidney Tarrow.