A01=Graeme Chesters
A01=Ian Welsh
AGM
Antagonistic Orientation
anti-globalisation activism
Author_Graeme Chesters
Author_Ian Welsh
Category=JB
Category=JHBA
Category=JHM
civil
Civil Society
complex systems theory
Czech Activist
Dense
Direct Democracy
Emergent Global Civil Society
emergent order in social networks
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european
forum
framing
GCS
global
identity construction processes
IMF
Life Style
Movement Milieu
network analysis methods
networks
Ogoni
PGA
PGA Network
political agency dynamics
protest communication strategies
reflexive
Reflexive Framing
Shadow Realm
small
Small World Networks
Social Forum
Social Movement Networks
society
Strange Attractor
Tactical Frivolity
UN
Word Of Mouth
world
World Social Forum Process
Zapatista Encuentro
Product details
- ISBN 9780415439749
- Weight: 380g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 22 Mar 2007
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Fusing two key concerns of contemporary sociology: globalization and its discontents, and the 'complexity turn' in social theory, authors Chesters and Welsh utilize complexity theory to analyze the shifting constellation of social movement networks that constitute opposition to neo-liberal globalization. They explore how seemingly chaotic and highly differentiated social actors interacting globally through computer mediated communications, face-to-face gatherings and protests constitute a 'multitude' not easily grasped through established models of social and political change.
Drawing upon extensive empirical research and utilizing concepts drawn from the natural and social sciences this book suggests a framework for understanding mobilization, identity formation and information flows in global social movements operating within complex societies. It suggests that this 'movement of movements' exhibits an emergent order on the edge of chaos, a turbulence that is recasting political agency in the twenty-first century.
