Globalization and Social Movements: Islamism, Feminism, and the Global Justice Movement

By Valentine M. Moghadam

Book Overview

This clear and concise book examines the crucial relationship between globalization and social movements. Deftly combining nuanced theory with rich empirical examples, leading scholar Valentine M. Moghadam focuses especially on three transnational social movements-Islamism, feminism, and global justice. Defining globalization as a complex process in which the mobility of capital, peoples, organizations, movements, and ideas takes on an increasingly transnational form, the author shows how both physical and electronic mobility has helped to create dynamic global social movements. Globalization has engendered the spread of neoliberal capitalism across the world, but it also has engendered opposition and collective action.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742555720
• ISBN13: 9780742555723
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.2" x 0.5" x 6.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary