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40 - Transnational Social Movements

from VI - Globalization and New and Bigger Sources of Power and Resistance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 February 2020

By
Peter Evans
Edited by
Thomas Janoski ,
Cedric de Leon ,
Joya Misra  and
Isaac William Martin
Thomas Janoski
Affiliation:
University of Kentucky
Cedric de Leon
Affiliation:
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Joya Misra
Affiliation:
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Isaac William Martin
Affiliation:
University of California, San Diego
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Summary

Social movements fuel the sociological imagination. Fascination with intentional collective efforts to foster social change is endemic to the discipline (see Jasper, Chapter 23, this volume). Social movements that embody aspirations to defend and promote human flourishing and sustainable community life lie at the heart of this fascination. Analysis of social movements is in turn a core part of sociological theorization of the dynamics of social change. In the contemporary global political economy, analysis of social movements must include transnational social movements. When politics, production, and culture operate via global networks, social movements have no choice but to do the same. Transnational movements complement local and national movements while depending on complementarity with movements organized at other levels for their own efficacy.

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transnational activismsocial movementsneoliberalismprotestshuman rights
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The New Handbook of Political Sociology , pp. 1053 - 1077
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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