Global Social Movements

Contents: Contributors and editors. Acronyms. 1. Global Social Movements: Towards a cosmopolitan politics/Robin Cohen and Shirin M. Rai. 2. Enmeshed in the web? Indigenous peoples rights in the network society/Paul Havemann. 3. Human rights : Suffering between movement and markets/Upendra Baxi. 4. The Women’s Movement: Boundary-crossing on terrains of conflict/Cynthia Cockburn. 5. Making global connections among women, 1970-99/Deborah Stienstra. 6. Labour in the global: challenges and prospects/Ronaldo Munck. 7. International labour solidarity after The Cold War/Sarah Ashwin. 8. Environmental NGOs and globalization : The governance of TNCs/Peter Newell. 9. Shell, a sure target for global environmental campaigning?/Steve Yearley and John Forrester. 10. The Islamic revival: Antinomies of Islamic Movements under globalization/Paul M. Lubeck. 11. Religious movements and globalization/James A. Beckford. 12. The Peace Movement: Retrospect and prospect/John Mattausch. Notes. Acknowledgements. Bibliography. Index.

Globalisation has more than one face. Global cultural and economic forces, particularly through the dynamics of huge corporations, shape the picture from above, but a new global consciousness, through the activities of social movements, is emerging from below.

While nation-states remain important, the development of these global social movements demonstrates that we are entering a post-national phase, with political action becoming more conventional, open, participatory, direct and focused.

Global Social Movements presents a very broad and systematic analysis of our globalising world, integrating a wide range of issues. Human rights, women’s, peace, labour, religious and Green Movements are all discussed.