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Aims to bring together a renewed perspective of critical theory and the theories of social movements in order to think about emancipation globally. Brings together contributions from all over the world in order to achieve a multifaceted standpoint.
The Global Age: A Social Movement Perspective
The Global Age: A Social Movement Perspective
Introduction
The coordinators of this volume propose to explore the links between social movements and ‘a general view of contemporary social processes’ or a ‘social configuration’, to take Elias’ concept. Following Touraine (1981), they consider that specific generations of social movements correspond to specific types of society. After the workers’ movement in the industrial society and ‘new social movements’ more oriented towards cultural struggles and recognition in the ‘post-industrial society’, they raise the question: ‘Is there a new generation of social movements that correspond to a new phase of modernity (late modernity)?’
I would like to develop this question in two directions. First, while most chapters of this volume consider a ...
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