Globalization and Resistance: Transnational Dimensions of Social Movements

by Jackie Smith (Editor), Jackie Johnston (Editor)

Globalization and Resistance brings together cutting-edge theory and research about how global economics and politics alter the way ordinary people engage in contentious political action. The cases range from nineteenth-century Irish immigrant networks, to protests against World Bank projects in the Amazon, to contemporary transnational organizing for the environment, to the 'battle of Seattle.' The volume illuminates the reciprocal effects between globalization processes and social movements.

264 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2002

About the author

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Jackie Smith is professor of sociology at the University of Pittsburgh. She is the editor of the Journal of World-Systems Research and author or coeditor of a number of works on social movements and globalization, including Social Movements in the World-System.