Global Movements - Action And Culture

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

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).

Acknowledgments and Preface.
Part I: Movements and Globalization.
1. Globalization.
2. Movements and Action.
Part II: From Antiglobalization to Grammars of Experience.
3. Direct Action: From Community to Experience.
4. The New Humanitarianism.
5. Grammars of Experience.
Part III: Global Modernities, Grammars of Action.
6. Zapatista Dreaming: Memory and the Mask.
7. Healing Movements, Embodied Subjects.
8. Global Islam: Modernity’s Other?.
9. Islamic Makings of The Self.
Part IV: Paradigms of Action and Cutlure.
10. Rethinking Movements.
Index