Over the past decade there has been an unprecedented mobilization of street protests worldwide from the demonstrations that helped bring progressive governments to power in Latin America to the Arab Spring to Occupy movements in the United States and Europe to democracy protests in China. This edited volume investigates the current status nature and dynamics of the new politics that characterizes social movements from around the world that are part of this revolutionary wave. Spanning case studies from Latin America North and South Africa the Middle East Asia Europe and North America this volume examines the varied manifestations of the current cycle of protest which emerged from the Global South and spread to the North and highlights their interconnections – the globalized nature of these social movements. Analytically converging around Sidney Tarrow’s emphasis on protest cycles political opportunity structures and identity the individual chapters investigate processes such as global framing internationalization diffusion scale shifts externalizations and transnational coalition building to provide an analytic cartography of the current state of social movements as they are simultaneously globalizing while still being embedded in their respective localities. Looking at new ways of thinking and new forms of challenging power this comprehensive volume will be of great interest to graduates and scholars in the fields of globalization social movements and international politics. | The New Global Politics Global Social Movements in the Twenty-First Century
Over the past decade there has been an unprecedented mobilization of street protests worldwide from the demonstrations that helped bring progressive governments to power in Latin America to the Arab Spring to Occupy movements in the United States and Europe to democracy protests in China. This edited volume investigates the current status nature and dynamics of the new politics that characterizes social movements from around the world that are part of this revolutionary wave. Spanning case studies from Latin America North and South Africa the Middle East Asia Europe and North America this volume examines the varied manifestations of the current cycle of protest which emerged from the Global South and spread to the North and highlights their interconnections – the globalized nature of these social movements. Analytically converging around Sidney Tarrow’s emphasis on protest cycles political opportunity structures and identity the individual chapters investigate processes such as global framing internationalization diffusion scale shifts externalizations and transnational coalition building to provide an analytic cartography of the current state of social movements as they are simultaneously globalizing while still being embedded in their respective localities. Looking at new ways of thinking and new forms of challenging power this comprehensive volume will be of great interest to graduates and scholars in the fields of globalization social movements and international politics. | The New Global Politics Global Social Movements in the Twenty-First Century
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