Globalization and Social Movements Islamism, Feminism, and the Global Justice Movement

This clear and concise book examines the crucial relationship between globalization and social movements. Deftly combining nuanced theory with rich empirical examples, leading scholar Valentine M. Moghadam focuses especially on three transnational social movements-Islamism, feminism, and global justice. Defining globalization as a complex process in which the mobility of capital, peoples, organizations, movements, and ideas takes on an increasingly transnational form, the author shows how both physical and electronic mobility has helped to create dynamic global social movements. Globalization has engendered the spread of neoliberal capitalism across the world, but it also has engendered opposition and collective action.

Exploring the historical roots of Islamism, feminism, and global justice, the book also shows how these movements have been stimulated by relatively recent globalization processes, including neoliberalism, war, and hegemonic masculinities. Moghadam examines similarities and differences among the three movements, along with internal differentiation within each. Her argument is informed by feminism, world-systems, world polity, and social movement theories in a seamlessly integrated framework that will be essential reading for all students of globalization.

--Analyzes the relationship between globalization and transnational social movements
--Examines the social movement attributes of Islamist, feminist, and justice and peace advocacy
--Discusses the historical origins and antecedents as well as the more recent structural roots of Islamism, feminism, and global justice
--Contributes to contemporary globalization studies through an application of feminist, world-systems, world polity, and social movement theories, integrating all levels of analysis

About the Author
Valentine M. Moghadam is professor of sociology and women's studies and director of the women's studies program at Purdue University