Global Movements - Action and Culture (Hardcover)

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. This book explores three of the most significant of these movements: the 'anti-globalization movement'; the new Islamic movements; and the movement that emerged in April 1999 as the first significant movement to challenge the organization of power in China, the Falun Gong. These movements require a rethinking of the very idea of social movement, a concept that owes a great deal to the civic and industrial culture that was so critical to western modernity, but may be less adequate when exploring forms of culture, action, and communication in a globalized world. confront, and the crises to which they are subject. Located in the sociology of social movements, this book grapples with questions that are at the centre of constituting a common world in a world of multiple modernities.