Power, Profit and Protest: Australian Social Movements and Globalisation

Part title......Page 2
Title page......Page 4
Contents......Page 6
Preface and Acknowledgments......Page 8
1 Social movements and social change......Page 10
Understanding social movements......Page 11
American versus European approaches......Page 18
A time of hope: new social movements debate the old......Page 24
A time of despair: postmodernism and identity politics......Page 31
Social movements and the problem of globalisation......Page 44
The aims of this study......Page 51
2 The Aboriginal movement......Page 53
In denial: white society and indigenous Australians......Page 54
The development of the Aboriginal movement......Page 61
The land rights movement......Page 75
The battle for native title rights......Page 84
Reconciliation, the stolen generations and the 'sorry' debate......Page 93
3 The women's movement......Page 107
Earlier waves......Page 108
The development of the contemporary women's movement......Page 110
Ideological divisions in the 1970s and 1980s......Page 113
Organisational divisions......Page 118
Making demands: winning some, losing some......Page 124
The women's movement and lesbianism......Page 150
The women's movement and Aboriginal women......Page 154
Women helping women: ideology and practice......Page 157
The women's movement and the state......Page 160
Feminism in the 1990s......Page 166
Feminism in the new millennium......Page 170
Environmentalists and the greening of politics......Page 174
Some important campaigns......Page 178
Some current organisations......Page 197
The Australian Greens and parliamentary politics......Page 211
Ideological conflicts......Page 215
The labour movement and the environment......Page 226
Corporate power and environmental politics......Page 232
Corporate strategies: confrontation and co-option......Page 235
A green state?......Page 239
Ebbing of the green tide?......Page 246
New wave environmentalism?......Page 248
5 Anti-capitalism and anti-corporate globalisation......Page 251
Naming globalisation and its discontents......Page 253
The old 'anti-capitalist' social movement......Page 259
The case against neo-liberal globalisation......Page 265
Mounting resistance in the 1990s......Page 273
Seattle and S11: case studies of the new anti-capitalism......Page 285
Democracy versus the neo-liberal strong state......Page 331
6 Globalisation: the cancer stage of capitalism?......Page 336
Absence of critique: strength or weakness?......Page 337
A crisis of capitalism......Page 341
Possibilities for the future......Page 344
Revolution in the cause of reform?......Page 353
Notes......Page 359
References......Page 363
Index......Page 394