Global Movements: Action and Culture

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Wiley, Mar 3, 2006 - Political Science - 260 pages
Over the past decade we have witnessed the extraordinary rise of new global movements that throw into question the way we think about culture, power and action in a globalizing world.

  • Examines three of the most significant global social movements of the last decade: anti-globalization, new Islamic movements, and the Falun Gong in China.
  • Explores key dimensions of these movements, the tensions they confront, and the crises that created them.
  • Demonstrates how these global movements require a rethinking of the very idea of social movements

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About the author (2006)

Kevin McDonald is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Melbourne. He is the author of Struggles for Subjectivity: Identity, Action and Youth Experience (1999) and Pressing Questions: Explorations in Sociology (2nd ed., 2000).

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