Complexity and Social Movements (International Library of Sociology)

Fusing two key concerns of contemporary sociology: globalization and its discontents, and the 'complexity turn' in social theory, authors Chesters and Welsh utilize complexity theory to analyze the shifting constellation of social movement networks that constitute opposition to neo-liberal globalization. They explore how seemingly chaotic and highly differentiated social actors interacting globally through computer mediated communications, face-to-face gatherings and protests constitute a 'multitude' not easily grasped through established models of social and political change.Drawing upon extensive empirical research and utilizing concepts drawn from the natural and social sciences this book suggests a framework for understanding mobilization, identity formation and information flows in global social movements operating within complex societies. It suggests that this 'movement of movements' exhibits an emergent order on the edge of chaos, a turbulence that is recasting political agency in the twenty-first century.

Complexity and Social Movements: Multitudes at the Edge of Chaos (International Library of Sociology)

Politics & Social Sciences

Chesters, Graeme

Welsh, Ian

Social Sciences

Routledge

Social Movements: The Key Concepts provides an insightful, contemporary introduction to some of the frequently encountered terms and groups that are central to the study of collective action and social and political activism. Following an A-Z format, the entries defined and discussed are drawn from the following areas:  the ‘old’ social movements of the nineteenth century the ‘new’ social movements of the 1960s and 1970s the rise of contemporary ‘network’ movements. Key American, European and global social movements are addressed, with each entry related to contemporary developments and emergent tendencies within the field. Including helpful references for further study, this concise and up-to-date guide is of relevance for those studying a range of disciplines, including sociology, politics, cultural studies and human geography.

Social Movements: The Key Concepts (Routledge Key Guides)

History

Americas

Social Movements: The Key Concepts provides an insightful, contemporary introduction to some of the frequently encountered terms and groups that are central to the study of collective action and social and political activism. Following an A-Z format, the entries defined and discussed are drawn from the following areas: <ul>
<li>the ‘old’ social movements of the nineteenth century</li> <li>the ‘new’ social movements of the 1960s and 1970s</li> <li>the rise of contemporary ‘network’ movements.</li>
</ul>
Key American, European and global social movements are addressed, with each entry related to contemporary developments and emergent tendencies within the field. Including helpful references for further study, this concise and up-to-date guide is of relevance for those studying a range of disciplines, including sociology, politics, cultural studies and human geography.

Sociology

This book describes the emergence of a new materialist orientation in social theory, driven by acknowledgement of the centrality and irreducibility of difference as a key concept in both the social and natural sciences and the problems this poses for scientific enquiry, political decision-making and collective action. Using examples from climate change to genomics to social justice movements, it examines how feedback processes between the organic, material and social realms are increasingly being revealed as determinants of our capacity to sustain planetary diversity and to shape the form and quality of human life. It argues that, as we confront the complexity and contingency of such processes, there is an ever-greater need for an ontology that re-admits the non-discursive to social theory.

Neo-Materialism: From Bio Power to Social Movements (Routledge Advances in Sociology)

Philosophy

Complexity and Social Movements: Multitudes at the Edge of Chaos

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Complexity and Social Movements: Multitudes at the Edge of Chaos (International Library of Sociology)

Social Movements: The Key Concepts (Routledge Key Guides)

Social Movements: The Key Concepts (Routledge Key Guides)

Complexity and Social Movements (International Library of Sociology)

Neo-Materialism: From Bio Power to Social Movements (Routledge Advances in Sociology)

Complexity and Social Movements: Multitudes at the Edge of Chaos

Buying a Home in South Africa: A Survival Handbook

Living and Working in New Zealand: A Survival Handbook

Living & Working in Canada: A Survival Handbook (Living and Working)

Living And Working in Canada: A Survival Handbook