The History of Social Movements in Global Perspective: A Survey

Introduction: Towards a Global History of Social Movements by Stefan Berger and Holger Nehring. - PART I: Conceptual, Methodological and Theoretical Considerations 1. - Studying Social Movements: Some Conceptual Challenges by Dieter Rucht 2. - Subaltern Studies as a History of Social Movements in India by Rochona Majumdar 3. - Trans-Pacific Feminism: Writing Women's Movement from a Transnational Perspective by Seonjoo Park. - PART II: Continental Perspectives on the History of Social Movements 4. - Social Movements in Latin America from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Centuries by Claudia Wassermann. - 5 Dissident Political History: Social Movements in Northern America by Felicia Kornbluh 6. - European Social Protest, 1000 - 2000 by Marcel van der Linden 7. - Social Movements in Africa by Andreas Eckert 8. - Popular Movements in the Middle East and North Africa by John Chalcraft 9. - Social Movements in India, 1800 to the Present by Arvind Elangovan 10. - Subjectivation and Social Movements in Post-Colonial Korea by Jung Han Kim. - 11 The History of Social Movements in Australia by Sean Scalmer. - PART III: Social Movements in Transnational Historical Perspective. - 12. - From Cultural Wars to the Crisis of Humanity: Moral Movements in the Modern Age by Alexandra Przyrembel 13 . - Labour movements in Global Historical Perspective: Conceptual Eurocentrism and its Problems by Stefan Berger 14. - Myths, Big Myths and Global Environmentalism by Frank Uekötter 15. - Equality, Difference and Participation: the Women's Movement in Global Perspective by Ilse Lenz 16. - Peace movements by Holger Nehring 17. - 1968: a Social Movement Sui Generis by Gerd Rainer Horn 18. - Terrorism between Social Movements, the State and Media Societies by Klaus Weinhauer 19. - Fascism as a Social Movement in a Transnational Context by Kevin Passmore 20. - Post-Fascist Right-Wing Social Movements by Fabian Virchow 21. - The Global Justice Movement - Resistance to Dominant Economic Models of Globalisation by Claudia Baumgarten 22. - The 'Arab Spring' in Global Perspectice: Social Movements, Changing Contexts and Political Transitions in the Arab World (2010 - 2014) by Nora Lafi. - Notes on Contributors. - Index