Global Movements
By: KEVIN MCDONALD, University of Melbourne
“Global Movements is essential reading for all those trying to
understand our twenty-first-century society. It is the first complex
account of new forms of worldwide protest and societ...

Over the past decade we have witnessed the extraordinary rise of new
global movements that throw into question the way we think about
culture, power and action in a globalizing world.
Examines three of the most significant global social movements of the
last decade: anti-globalization, new Islamic movements, and the Falun
Gong in China.
Explores key dimensions of these movements, the tensions they
confront, and the crises that created them.
Demonstrates how these global movements require a rethinking of the
very idea of social movements

Contents
Acknowledgments and Preface
Part I: Movements and Globalization
1. Globalization
2. Movements and Action
Part II: From Antiglobalization to Grammars of Experience
3. Direct Action: From Community to Experience
4. The New Humanitarianism
5. Grammars of Experience
Part III: Global Modernities, Grammars of Action
6. Zapatista Dreaming: Memory and the Mask
7. Healing Movements, Embodied Subjects
8. Global Islam: Modernity’s Other?
9. Islamic Makings of The Self
Part IV: Paradigms of Action and Cutlure
10. Rethinking Movements
Index

About the Authors
Kevin McDonald is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of
Melbourne. He is the author of Struggles for Subjectivity: Identity,
Action and Youth Experience (1999) and Pressing Questions:
Explorations in Sociology (2nd ed., 2000).
