Identity, Place, Knowledge

Social Movements Contesting Globalization

By (author) Janet M. Conway
Categories: Politics and government, Society and Social Sciences
Publisher: Fernwood Publishing
Paperback : 9781552661253, 204 pages, September 2004

Table of contents

  • : Preface
  • : Introduction: The Making and Meaning of Anti-globalization Movements
  • : Identity: Studying Social Movements
  • : Place: Grounding Globalization and Resistance
  • : Knowledge: Why Movements Matter
  • : The Activist City in an Era of Free Trade
  • : Re-making Coalition Politics
  • : Contesting the Neoliberal City
  • : Knowledge—and the Impasse in Left Politics
  • : Social Movements and Countervailing Power in a Time of Empire
  • : References

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“Identity, Place, Knowledge is a tour de force… it belongs in every political science course at the university level and is a major contribution to the literature inviting all of us to a new way of doing politics.”

- Paul Hansen, Chair of Kairos Ecumenical Justice Initiatives