Why Social Movements Matter

An Introduction

AvLaurence Cox

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

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Social movements and popular struggle are a central part of today’s world, but often neglected or misunderstood by media commentary as well as experts in other fields. In an age when struggles over climate change, women’s rights, austerity politics, racism, warfare and surveillance are central to the future of our societies, we urgently need to understand social movements. Accessible, comprehensive and grounded in deep scholarship, Why Social Movements Matter explains social movements for a general educated readership, those interested in progressive politics and scholars and students in other fields. It shows how much social movements are part of our everyday lives, and how in many ways they have shaped the world we live in over centuries. It explores the relationship between social movements and the left, how movements develop and change, the complex relationship between movements and intellectual life, and delivers a powerful argument for rethinking how the social world is constructed. Drawing on three decades of experience, Why Social Movements Matter shows the real space for hope in a contested world.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2018-06-19
Mått:158 x 239 x 18 mm
Vikt:422 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:150
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781786607812

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Statsskick: demokrati inom Samhälle och politik
Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Laurence Cox is one of Europe’s leading social movement researchers, Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the National University of Ireland Maynooth and Associate Researcher at the Collège d’Etudes Mondiales, Paris. He has published widely on different aspects of social movements, including We Make Our Own History: Marxism and Social Movements in the Twilight of Neoliberalism, Voices of 1968: Documents from the Global North, Understanding European Movements, Marxism and Social Movements and Silence Would Be Treason: Last Writings of Ken Saro-Wiwa. Cox cofounded andcoedits the activist/academic social movements journal Interface. He hasbeen involved in many different kinds of movement since the 1980s, includingecological, international solidarity, human rights and organising againstrepression, antiwar, community activism, radical media, self-organised spaces,alternative education and the alter-globalisation ‘movement of movements’.

Recensioner i media

This is the book we all were waiting for! Laurence Cox is an experienced scholar-activist, who writes in a concise, clever and accessible style. Cox argues that social movements are part of everyday life and help to shape the world but we don’t notice. They also escape the social scientist's analysis. In this intervention, Cox makes us aware of what social movements are and are not, what is their relation with society as a whole, with institutional politics, with intellectuals and with the Left. The book is a must for both those who want to know more about social movements, and those who teach and learn political sociology and social movement studies.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction; 1. We Need Movements; 2. Movements Made the World We Live In; 3. The Social Movement as a Whole; 4. The Philosophers Have Only Interpreted The World; 5. Movements and Intellectual Activity; Conclusion; Resources; Notes