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Global Struggles and Social Change
From Prehistory to World Revolution in the Twenty-First Century
In Global Struggles and Social Change, Christopher Chase-Dunn and Paul Almeida explore how global change stimulates the formation and shape of such movements. Contending that large-scale economic shifts condition the pattern of social movement mobilizations around the world, the authors trace these trends back to premodern societies, revealing how severe disruptions of indigenous communities led to innovative collective actions throughout history. Drawing on historical case studies, world system and protest event analysis, and social networks, they also examine the influence of global change processes on local, national, and transnational social movements and explain how in turn these movements shape institutional shifts.
Touching on hot-button topics, including global warming, immigrant rights protests, the rise of right-wing populism, and the 2008 financial crisis, the book also explores a broad range of premodern social movements from indigenous people in the Americas, Mesopotamia, and China. The authors pay special attention to periods of disruption and external threats, as well as the role of elites, emotions, charisma, and religion or spirituality in shaping protest movements. Providing sweeping coverage, Global Struggles and Social Change is perfect for students and anyone interested in globalization, international and comparative politics, political sociology, and communication studies.
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"A timely and engaging discussion that introduces very interesting examples of social movements while also making an original, plausible, and empirically well-supported case for how transnational social movement strategies may well contribute to global change in ways that stem the threats posed by globalization. This innovative book addresses the shortcomings of other literatures on transnational social movements."—John G. Dale, George Mason University, author of Free Burma: Transnational Legal Action and Corporate Accountability
"This highly original book makes a substantial contribution to the field. The authors succeed in synthesizing two very large and prominent bodies of social science research, demonstrating how the periodic rise and fall of social movements follow political-economic developments in world empires and systems. The scholarship is more than sound; it is masterful. The clarity of the writing, along with the treatment of contemporary examples, will make this a widely required text. I recommend it in the strongest possible terms."—Clarence Y. H. Lo, University of Missouri, coeditor of Social Policy and the Conservative Agenda
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9781421438627 | |
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$32.00 USD, £23.50 GBP | |
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Electronic book text | |
September 4, 2020 | |
9781421438634 | |
9781421438627 | |
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224 | |
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