Globalization and Resistance Transnational Dimensions of Social Movements |
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| Editor:
| Smith, Jackie
Johnston, Hank |
| Contribution by:
| Johnston, Hank
Ayres, Jeffrey M.
Caniglia, Beth Schaefer
Chabot, Sean
Giugni, Marco G.
Hanagan, Michael
Lewis, Tammy L.
Maney, Gregory M.
Nepstad, Sharon Erickson
Oliver, Pamela E.
Reimann, Kim D.
Rothman, Franklin Daniel
Tarrow, Sidney |
| ISBN: | 978-0-7425-1989-3 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 2002 |
| Publisher: | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $84.00 |
Book Description:
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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...
More DescriptionGlobalization 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.