Looking at anti-apartheid as part of the history of contemporary global politics, this book provides a comparative analysis of different sections of the transnational anti-apartheid movement. It also emphasizes the importance of a historical perspective on political cultures, social movements, and global civil society.

Looking at anti-apartheid as part of the history of present global politics, this book provides the first comparative analysis of different sections of the transnational anti-apartheid movement. The author emphasizes the importance of a historical perspective on political cultures, social movements, and global civil society. Analyzing a part of twentieth-century post-war history mainly from a sociological perspective, he also highlights dimensions of globalization in an era in which we still live, the power of the media, and the power of collective action.

Acronyms - Acknowledgements - Prologue: Apartheid as a Dark
Side of Modernity - Introduction: Anti-Apartheid, The Media
and 'New Social Movements' - Beyond Eurocentrism - Narratives of Transnational Anti-Apartheid Activism - The Globalization of the Anti-Apartheid Movement - National Politics in a Global Context: Anti-Apartheid in Britain and Sweden - The Struggle Over Information and Interpretation - Beginnings: Sharpeville and the Boycott Debates - Sports as Politics: The Battle of Bastad and 'Stops the 70's Tour' - 'A New Black Militancy' - Before and After the Soweto Uprising - Sharpeville Revisited and the Release of Nelson Mandela - Conclusion: Anti-Apartheid and the Emergence of a Global Civil Society -
Epilogue: The Legacy of Anti-Apartheid - Notes - References
- Archives - Interviews - Index