Globalization and Resistance

Jackie Smith is associate professor of sociology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Hank Johnston is editor of Mobilization: An International Journal and lecturer in sociology at San Diego State University.

The eclectic mix of topics and approaches proves both interesting and stimulating. One of the more interesting attempts to develop social movement studies so as to recognize adequately the breadth, depth and significance of transnational activism.

• Chapter 1 1 Globalization and Resistance: An IntroductionPart 2 I Theories of Globalization and Social Movement MobilizationChapter 3 2 Explaining Crossnational Similarities Among Social MovementsChapter 4 3 Transnational Structures and Protest: Linking Theories and Assessing EvidencePart 5 II Transnational Mobilization and National PoliticsChapter 6 4 Irish Transnational Social Movements, Migrants, and the State SystemChapter 7 5 Conservation TSMOs: Shaping the Protected Area Systems of Less Developed CountriesPart 8 III Transnational Diffusion and Framing ProcessesChapter 9 6 Transnational Diffusion and the African American Reinvention of the Ghandian RepertoireChapter 10 7 From Local to Global: The Anti-Dam Movement in Southern Brazil, 1979-1992Chapter 11 8 Creating Transnational Solidarity: The Use of Narrative in the U. S.- Central America Peace MovementPart 12 IV Transnational NetworksChapter 13 9 Elite Alliances and Transnational Environmental Movement OrganizationsChapter 14 10 Building Networks from the Outside In: Japanese NGOs and the Kyoto Climate Change ConferencePart 15 V Protest and the Global Trade RegimeChapter 16 11 Transnational Political Processes and Contention Against the Global EconomyChapter 17 12 Globalizing Resistance: The Battle of Seattle and the Future of Social MovementsPart 18 ConclusionChapter 19 13 From Lumping to Spiltting: Specifying Globalization and Resistance