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| Title: | Social Movements in a Global Context
: Canadian Perspectives |
| Author: | Rob Bantjes |
| ISBN: | 1551303248 : 9781551303246 |
| Illustrations: | b/w photos |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Size: | 170x245mm |
| Pages: | 414 |
| Weight: | .686 Kg. |
| Published: | Canadian Scholars’ Press - June 2007 |
| List Price: | 22.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Globalization: SOCIOLOGY; SOCIAL STUDIES |
Focuses on interpreting the resurgence in popular protest for a growing audience of university students. Most of this new activity is either in response to or makes use of emerging global regimes -- hence, the book’s emphasis on the 'global context' as well as on strategies for trans-local mobilisation. Equally important is the fact that the book adopts a Canadian perspective and highlights, where possible, Canadian case studies. The chapters are organised around an explanatory framework, such as class analysis, or a core analytical question. Some of the chapters deal with historical content, but all make links to the immediate present and attempt to engage students in ongoing debates and struggles. The author makes connections between movements and the state, focusing on the dynamic of co-option/coercion. The author also pays attention to the spatial dimensions of movement formation and tactics, which are particularly relevant in the present era of globalisation.
Preface; Introduction; Workers of the World, Unite!; State and Co-operative Movements; Movement Innovations in the 1960s: Resource Mobilisation?; Resistance to State Terror; Culture and the Politics of Identity; Bureaucratisation and Anarchist Resistance; Terrorism and the "War on Terror"; Consumer-Citizen: The Market as a Social Movement Tool; Discourse and the Power of Constitution: "Speaking for" the Environment; Beyond Nation-State Sovereignty: Indigenous Peoples’ Internationalism; Coalition Politics; In Search of Global "Public Space"; Index.
