
Waves of Social Movement Mobilizations in the Twenty-First Century
Challenges to the Neo-Liberal World Order and Democracy
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Description
Based on case studies, this book analyzes a recent wave of social movement and protests in the twenty-first century. It has two overarching broadly defined themes: first, to identify commonalities across the social movements and protests in terms of strategies, desire, hopes as well as the main factors in the decline of the movements. And second, to underline the significance of the general economic, social, and political conditions in which these protests arose. Although there are specific national and local context-specific reasons for the protests observed in different countries, the gradual integration of the post-war neo-liberal hegemonic world order is the fundamental overarching structural factor behind these protests. From Turkey to Spain, Greece to Mexico, and the Netherlands to the U.S., this book observes that the "outsiders" of the system resist against the oppression of the neo-liberal world system.
Product Details
Publisher | Lexington Books |
Publish Date | January 18, 2017 |
Pages | 178 |
Language | English |
Type | |
EAN/UPC | 9780739196373 |
Dimensions | 8.9 X 5.8 X 0.6 inches | 0.6 pounds |
Reviews
A critical research collection, written by inspiring social movements' scholars, comprises case studies from Tunisia, Spain, Greece, Iceland, Netherlands, the United Kingdom, the United States, Mexico, and Turkey. In about seven years and more (2008-2015) of the enduring global political-economic crisis and its repercussions, we are witnessing not only waves of social movement mobilizations but also a more mature, rich, and creative theoretical and empirical scholarship as offered by this book.
Situating the recent wave of social movements within a broader, global, context marked by, among other things, the failures of the neoliberal world order, this collection of essays brings a much-needed comparative dimension to the analysis of 'contentious politics' in the twenty-first century. A valuable contribution to the growing field of social movement studies.
This book provides a very sophisticated and thoroughly insightful analysis of social mobilization at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It is an innovative and remarkably perceptive study of the significance and varieties of contemporary social mobilizations and their consequences.
Situating the recent wave of social movements within a broader, global, context marked by, among other things, the failures of the neoliberal world order, this collection of essays brings a much-needed comparative dimension to the analysis of 'contentious politics' in the twenty-first century. A valuable contribution to the growing field of social movement studies.
This book provides a very sophisticated and thoroughly insightful analysis of social mobilization at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It is an innovative and remarkably perceptive study of the significance and varieties of contemporary social mobilizations and their consequences.
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