Global movements : action and culture

The past decade has witnessed an extraordinary rise of new global movements that throw into question the way we think about culture, power and action in a globalizing world. This book surveys the field and explores some of the most significant of these movements, including anti-globalization and the new Islamic movements.These movements require a rethinking of the very idea of social movement, a concept that owes a great deal to the civic and industrial culture that was so critical to western modernity, but may be less adequate when exploring forms of culture, action, and communication in a globalized world. This book explores key dimensions of these movements, the tensions they confront, and the crises to which they are subject. Met lit. opg. en index. viii, 251 p. ; 23 cm