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51. Global Activism

    By Ruth Reitan

    Series: Rethinking Globalizations

    This comprehensive study traces the transnationalization of activist networks, analyzing their changing compositions and characters and examining the roles played by the World Social Forum in this process. Comparing four of the largest global networks targeting the 'neoliberal triumvirate' of the...

    Published December 13th 2006 by Routledge
52. Conflict and Change in Cambodia

    Edited by Ben Kiernan, Caroline Hughes

    In the thirty years after the Second World War, Cambodia witnessed the reassertion of colonial power, the spread of nationalism, the birth and growth of a communist party, the achievement of independence, the stifling reform during the decade of peace, the rise of an armed domestic insurgency, the...

    Published October 22nd 2006 by Routledge
53. Imperialism and Resistance

    By John Rees

    A unique critique of the new economic and military imperialism of the United States and its allies in the twenty-first century. Inspired by the anti-globalization and anti-war movements, in which the author himself has played a crucial role, this is also an accessible introduction to the...

    Published June 28th 2006 by Routledge
54. The Global Resistance Reader

    By Louise Amoore

    The Global Resistance Reader provides the first comprehensive account of the phenomenal rise of transnational social movements which have opposed the financial, economic and political hegemony of large international organizations such as the World Trade Organization, World Bank and International...

    Published March 16th 2005 by Routledge
55. Critical Theories, IR and 'the Anti-Globalisation Movement'

    The Politics of Global Resistance

    Edited by Catherine Eschle, Bice Maiguashca

    Series: RIPE Series in Global Political Economy

    This book provides a comprehensive and nuanced analysis of the 'anti-globalisation' struggles taking place around the world. It shows the complexity and diversity of these movements and illustrates this with detailed empirical studies of local, national and transnational resistance in the United...

    Published March 9th 2005 by Routledge
56. Exploring Civil Society

    Political and Cultural Contexts

    Edited by Marlies Glasius, David Lewis, Hakan Seckinelgin

    This volume explores how the idea of civil society has been translated in different cultural contexts and examines its impact on politics worldwide. Comparing and contrasting civil society in Latin America and Eastern Europe, Western Europe and the United States, Africa and South Asia, and the...

    Published August 18th 2004 by Routledge
57. Ideas and Actions in the Green Movement

    By Brian Doherty

    Series: Routledge Research in Environmental Politics

    The 'Western' green movement has grown rapidly in the last three decades: green ministers are in government in several European countries, Greenpeace has millions of paying supporters, and green direct action against roads, GM crops, the WTO and neo-liberalism, have become ubiquitous.The author...

    Published May 15th 2002 by Routledge
58. Black Movements in America

    By Cedric J. Robinson

    Cedric Robinson traces the emergence of Black political cultures in the United States from slave resistances in the 16th and 17th centuries to the civil rights movements of the present. Drawing on the historical record, he argues that Blacks have constructed both a culture of resistance and a...

    Published February 19th 1997 by Routledge
59. The Gay and Lesbian Liberation Movement

    By Margaret Cruikshank

    Series: Revolutionary Thought and Radical Movements

    First published in 1992...

    Published August 19th 1992 by Routledge