Social Movements in a Global Context
Canadian Perspectives

Focuses on interpreting the resurgence in popular protest for a growing audience of university students. This book emphasises on the 'global context' as well as on strategies for trans-local mobilisation. It adopts a Canadian perspective and highlights, where possible, Canadian case studies.

This title focuses on interpreting the resurgence in popular protest for a growing audience of university students. Most of this new activity is either in response to or makes use of emerging global regimes - hence, the book's emphasis on the 'global context' as well as on strategies for trans-local mobilisation. Equally important is the fact that the book adopts a Canadian perspective and highlights, where possible, Canadian case studies. The chapters are organised around an explanatory framework, such as class analysis, or a core analytical question. Some of the chapters deal with historical content, but all make links to the immediate present and attempt to engage students in ongoing debates and struggles. The author makes connections between movements and the state, focusing on the dynamic of co-option/coercion. The author also pays attention to the spatial dimensions of movement formation and tactics, which are particularly relevant in the present era of globalisation.

Preface
Introduction
Workers of the World, Unite!
State and Co-operative Movements
Movement Innovations in the 1960s: Resource Mobilisation?
Resistance to State Terror
Culture and the Politics of Identity
Bureaucratisation and Anarchist Resistance
Terrorism and the "War on Terror"
Consumer-Citizen: The Market as a Social Movement Tool
Discourse and the Power of Constitution: "Speaking for" the Environment
Beyond Nation-State Sovereignty: Indigenous Peoples' Internationalism
Coalition Politics
In Search of Global "Public Space"
Index.