PIERRE HAMEL is Professor of Urban Planning and Sociology at the University of Montreal. He is the author of Action Collective et Democratie Locale and co-editor of Action Collective et Enjeux Institutionnels. - HENRI LUSTIGER-THALER is Associate Professor of Sociology at Ramapo College in New Jersey. He has published several books on social movements and collective action. - JAN NEDERVEEN PIETERSE is Associate Professor of Sociology at the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague. He is co-editor of Review of International Political Economy and advisory editor of several journals. - SASHA ROSENEIL is Professorial Research Fellow in Sociology and Gender Studies at the University of Leeds. She is the author of Disarming Patriarchy and Common Women, Uncommon Practices: The Queer Feminisms of Greenham.

• Notes on the Contributors Introduction: The Shifting Global Frames of Collective Action; P.Hamel, H.Lustiger-Thaler, J.N.Pieterse & S.Roseneil PART I: GLOBALIZATION DISCOURSES Globalization and Collective Action; J.N.Pieterse Towards a Theory of Global Collective Action and Institutions; H.Lustiger-Thaler, L.Maheu & P.Hamel Globalizing Civil Society? Social Movements and the Challenge of Global Politics from Below; C.Eschle PART II: GLOBAL IDENTITIES: GENDER AND SEXUALITIES The Global, the Local and the Personal: The Dynamics of a Social Movement in Postmodernity; S.Roseneil Transnational Feminist Networks: Collective Action in an Era of Globalization; V.M.Moghadam Global Feminist Theorizing and Organizing: Life-centred and Multi-centred Alternatives to Neo-liberal Globalization; A.Miles Globalization and the Mobilization of Gay and Lesbian Communities; B.D.Adam PART III: THE MULTIPLICITIES OF GLOBALIZATION Cross-border, Cross-movement Alliances in the Late 1990s; A.Pollack Collective Movements and Globalization; A.Farro & J.G.Vaillancourt Environmental Movements in the Global South: Outline of a Critique on the 'Livelihood' Approach; R.Dwivedi Index

PIERRE HAMEL is Professor of Urban Planning and Sociology at the University of Montreal. He is the author of Action Collective et Democratie Locale and co-editor of Action Collective et Enjeux Institutionnels. - HENRI LUSTIGER-THALER is Associate Professor of Sociology at Ramapo College in New Jersey. He has published several books on social movements and collective action. - JAN NEDERVEEN PIETERSE is Associate Professor of Sociology at the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague. He is co-editor of Review of International Political Economy and advisory editor of several journals. - SASHA ROSENEIL is Professorial Research Fellow in Sociology and Gender Studies at the University of Leeds. She is the author of Disarming Patriarchy and Common Women, Uncommon Practices: The Queer Feminisms of Greenham.

• Notes on the Contributors Introduction: The Shifting Global Frames of Collective Action; P.Hamel, H.Lustiger-Thaler, J.N.Pieterse & S.Roseneil PART I: GLOBALIZATION DISCOURSES Globalization and Collective Action; J.N.Pieterse Towards a Theory of Global Collective Action and Institutions; H.Lustiger-Thaler, L.Maheu & P.Hamel Globalizing Civil Society? Social Movements and the Challenge of Global Politics from Below; C.Eschle PART II: GLOBAL IDENTITIES: GENDER AND SEXUALITIES The Global, the Local and the Personal: The Dynamics of a Social Movement in Postmodernity; S.Roseneil Transnational Feminist Networks: Collective Action in an Era of Globalization; V.M.Moghadam Global Feminist Theorizing and Organizing: Life-centred and Multi-centred Alternatives to Neo-liberal Globalization; A.Miles Globalization and the Mobilization of Gay and Lesbian Communities; B.D.Adam PART III: THE MULTIPLICITIES OF GLOBALIZATION Cross-border, Cross-movement Alliances in the Late 1990s; A.Pollack Collective Movements and Globalization; A.Farro & J.G.Vaillancourt Environmental Movements in the Global South: Outline of a Critique on the 'Livelihood' Approach; R.Dwivedi Index