The History of Social Movements in Global Perspective: A Survey

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Introduction: Towards a Global History of Social Movements....Pages 1-35
Front Matter....Pages 37-37
Studying Social Movements: Some Conceptual Challenges....Pages 39-62
Subaltern Studies as a History of Social Movements in India....Pages 63-91
Transpacific Feminism: Writing Women’s Movement from a Transnational Perspective....Pages 93-111
Front Matter....Pages 113-113
Social Movements in Latin America: From the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century....Pages 115-143
Dissident Political History: Social Movements in North America....Pages 145-174
European Social Protest, 1000–2000....Pages 175-209
Social Movements in Africa....Pages 211-224
Popular Movements in the Middle East and North Africa....Pages 225-263
Social Movements in India, 1800 to the Present....Pages 265-295
Subjectivation and Social Movements in Post-Colonial Korea....Pages 297-324
The History of Social Movements in Australia....Pages 325-352
Front Matter....Pages 353-353
From Cultural Wars to the Crisis of Humanity: Moral Movements in the Modern Age....Pages 355-383
Labour Movements in Global Historical Perspective: Conceptual Eurocentrism and Its Problems....Pages 385-418
Myths, Big Myths and Global Environmentalism....Pages 419-447
Equality, Difference and Participation: The Women’s Movements in Global Perspective....Pages 449-483
Peace Movements....Pages 485-513
Terrorism between Social Movements, the State and Media Societies....Pages 515-541
Fascism as a Social Movement in a Transnational Context....Pages 543-577
Front Matter....Pages 579-617
Post-Fascist Right-Wing Social Movements....Pages 353-353
The Global Justice Movement: Resistance to Dominant Economic Models of Globalization....Pages 619-646
The ‘Arab Spring’ in Global Perspective: Social Movements, Changing Contexts and Political Transitions in the Arab World (2010–2014)....Pages 647-676
Back Matter....Pages 677-702
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