The History of Social Movements in Global Perspective : A Survey

Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List od Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Towards a Global History of Social Movements -- Part I: Conceptual, Methodological and Theoretical Considerations -- Chapter 2: Studying Social Movements: Some Conceptual Challenges -- Defining the Sub...

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1. Verfasser: Berger, Stefan 1964- (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Nehring, Holger 1974- (MitwirkendeR)
Format: E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London : Palgrave Macmillan, 2017
Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel:Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements
Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements Ser.
Schlagworte:Social history Electronic books Soziale Bewegung Geschichte
Umfang:1 Online-Ressource (719 pages)
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Zusammenfassung:Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List od Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Towards a Global History of Social Movements -- Part I: Conceptual, Methodological and Theoretical Considerations -- Chapter 2: Studying Social Movements: Some Conceptual Challenges -- Defining the Subject of Research -- Asking the Relevant Questions -- Theorizing and Conceptualizing the Phenomenon Under Study -- Choosing Appropriate Methods and Sources -- Interpreting and Contextualizing Findings -- Summary and Outlook -- Further Readings -- Chapter 3: Subaltern Studies as a History of Social Movements in India -- Why Subaltern Studies? -- 'The Peasant' as Mass-Political Subject -- Subaltern Studies and Accounts of Mass Insurgencies -- Conclusion -- Further Readings -- Chapter 4: Transpacific Feminism: Writing Women's Movement from a Transnational Perspective -- Introduction -- Formation of 'Woman' and Political Movement -- Transpacific Feminism -- Conclusion -- Further Readings -- Part II: Continental Perspectives on the History of Social Movements -- Chapter 5: Social Movements in Latin America: From the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century -- Introduction -- Post-Independence Movements -- Anti-Oligarchic Social Movements -- The Diversity of the Nationalist Social Movements -- Social Movements and Revolutionary Resistance to Dictatorships -- Current Social Movements and Their Characteristics -- Conclusions -- Further Readings -- Chapter 6: Dissident Political History: Social Movements in North America -- Social Movements: New Versus Old? -- Social Movements in the United States: An Overview -- Further Readings -- Chapter 7: European Social Protest, 1000-2000 -- Introduction -- Protests in Pre- and Early Capitalist Society -- Peasant Protests -- Guild Battles -- Food Riots -- Workers' and Journeymen's Struggles -- Millenarian Movements
Social Revolutions -- Protests Under Developed Capitalism -- Protests Under 'Actual Existing Socialism' -- Conclusion -- Further Readings -- Chapter 8: Social Movements in Africa -- A Neglected Field -- Social Movements as Civil Society? -- The Late Colonial Labour Movements -- Further Readings -- Chapter 9: Popular Movements in the Middle East and North Africa -- Introduction -- Definitions and Approaches -- State-Building, Invasion, Encroachment, Islamic Renewal, Patriotism, Justice, and Millenarianism, 1807-1911 -- Colonialism, Nationalism, Liberalism and Islamic Modernism, 1911-1939 -- Neo-colonialism, Pan-Arabism and Socialism, 1939-1979 -- Neoliberalism, Islamism and People Power, 1979-Present -- Conclusion -- Further Readings -- Chapter 10: Social Movements in India, 1800 to the Present -- Introduction -- Historiography -- State Versus Society: Social Movements in the Colonial Period -- Raja Ram Mohan Roy and Brahmo Samaj in Bengal -- Social Movements and Indian Nationalism -- Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) -- The Non-cooperation Movement, 1920-1922 -- Bhim Rao Ambedkar (1891-1956) -- Democracy: Potential and Limits of Social Movements -- The Chipko Movement -- Conclusion-An Assessment -- Further Readings -- Chapter 11: Subjectivation and Social Movements in Post-Colonial Korea -- Subjectivation and Social Movements -- Nationalization -- Modernization -- Democratization -- Post-Democratization -- Epilogue -- Further Readings -- Chapter 12: The History of Social Movements in Australia -- Colonization, State and Movement: Historical Relations -- Social Movements and Democratization -- Modern Social Movements: Labour and Feminist Mobilization and Incorporation -- Transformations and Plurality -- Exhaustion? -- Acknowledgements -- Further Readings -- Part III: Social Movements in Transnational Historical Perspective
Chapter 13: From Cultural Wars to the Crisis of Humanity: Moral Movements in the Modern Age -- Introduction -- Cultural Wars and Inner Improvement: Moral Movements in the Making during the Nineteenth Century -- Slavery and the Abolition Movement -- Battlefields and the Wounded Soldier -- Working Men and Heathen Souls -- From Cultural Wars to Moral Crisis: Notions of Aid and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century -- Aid for Victims of Genocide: The Armenian Case in 1915 and 1916 -- Responsibility, Human Rights and the Making of Amnesty International -- Conclusion: Morals and the Making of Social Movements in the Modern Age -- Further Readings -- Chapter 14: Labour Movements in Global Historical Perspective: Conceptual Eurocentrism and Its Problems -- Introduction -- The Emergence of the Labour Movement as a Response to Industrial Capitalism in the West during the Nineteenth Century -- The Development of Labour Movements Outside the West -- Global Political Moments in the Development of Labour Movements? -- New Challenges for Labour in the Post-Cold War World -- Conclusion -- Further Readings -- Chapter 15: Myths, Big Myths and Global Environmentalism -- Movement Impossible: The Elusive Character of Environmentalism -- An Adolescent Field: The Discipline of Environmental History -- Environmentalism Before Environmentalism -- The Lure of the Exotic: Colonial Environmentalism -- Globalizing Environmentalism I: 1970 -- Globalizing Environmentalism II: 1990 -- The State and the Movement -- The Right Green -- Radical Environmentalism -- How Pure Is Green? Environmentalism and Other Causes -- Environmentalism in Culture and Life -- The Theory Gap -- A Delicate Balance, or is Environmentalism an Enduring Paradigm? -- Further Readings -- Chapter 16: Equality, Difference and Participation: The Women's Movements in Global Perspective
Conceptual Issues Concerning Women's Movements and Feminism -- Globalization and the Reconfiguration of Time and Space -- Women's Movements, Social Structures and Transformation -- Mobilization, Organization and Internationalization of Women's Movements in the Neopatriarchal Gender Order -- International Organizing and the Rise of International Institutions -- Changes and Continuities in the New Women's Movements After 1965 -- Women's Mobilizations and the Emerging Global Multi-level System -- Women's Movements in Long-Term Perspective: Issues and Impact -- Further Readings -- Chapter 17: Peace Movements -- Concepts of 'Peace', Movement and European Modernity -- Historical Overview -- The 'Imaginary War' and the Politics of Space -- The Nature of Global Connections -- Conclusions -- Further Reading -- Chapter 18: 1968: A Social Movement Sui Generis -- A Festival of the Oppressed -- The Yugoslav June and Spring in Prague -- North America and Mexico City -- May 1968 in Dakar, Senegal -- The Preparation of Revolt -- The Role of Cultural Non-Conformity -- The Working Class Dimension -- Two Patterns of Radicalization -- The Christian Contribution -- The Inspirational Dynamics of Social Movements -- The Confluence of a Tripartite Revolt -- Further Reading -- Chapter 19: Terrorism between Social Movements, the State and Media Societies -- Introduction -- Anarchist and Nationalist Terrorism (c. 1870-1914) -- Right-Wing (European) Terrorism of the Interwar Years -- Anti-Colonial Terrorism (c. 1920s-1990s) -- New Left Terrorism (c. 1960s-1980s) -- Religiously-Inspired Terrorism (Since c. 1980s) -- Conclusions -- Further Reading -- Chapter 20: Fascism as a Social Movement in a Transnational Context -- War, Political Crisis and Social Movements -- Italy -- Instrumentalism -- Solidarity -- Frames -- Transnational Fascism -- National Socialism -- Action Frames
Instrumentalism -- Solidarity -- The Role of the Movement in the Seizure of Power -- Hungary -- France -- Fascism Outside Europe -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Chapter 21: Post-Fascist Right-Wing Social Movements -- Right-Wing Social Movements-What They Are and What They Are Not -- Right-Wing Social Movements and Social Movement Theory -- Dimensions of Right-Wing Social Movements -- Future Research -- Further Reading -- Chapter 22: The Global Justice Movement: Resistance to Dominant Economic Models of Globalization -- The Development of the GJM in Different Phases -- The GJM's Critique of Globalization -- The Key Social, Political, Economic and Cultural Conflicts Addressed and Framed by the GJM -- Forms of Protest -- Key Actors and Movements of the GJM -- Key Geographical Areas of the GJM -- Impact and Outcomes -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Chapter 23: The 'Arab Spring' in Global Perspective: Social Movements, Changing Contexts and Political Transitions in the Arab World (2010-2014) -- Introduction -- The Historical Roots of Civic Mobilization in the Arab World -- The 2010-2014 Events in Perspective: Social Movements and Mobilization Networks -- From Social Movements to Regime Changes: Complex Processes of Transition -- Conclusion -- Further Readings -- INDEX
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