Description: Social movements have shaped and are shaping modern societies around the globe; this is evident when we look at examples such as the Arab Spring Spains Indignados and the wider Occupy movement. In this volume, experts analyse the classic and new social movements from a uniquely global perspective and offer insights in current theoretical discussions on social mobilisation. Chapters are devoted both to the study of continental developments of social movements going back to the nineteenth century and ranging to the present day and to an emphasis on the transnational dimension of these movements. Interdisciplinary and truly international this book is an essential text on social movements for historians political scientists sociologists philosophers and social scientists.--
Review Quotes: "Kevin Passmore and Fabian Virchow's contributions on fascist and post-fascist movements, respectively, are a welcome addition to a field often concerned solely with progressive and left-leaning activism. ... The incredibly complex array of ideas interrogated within this volume works as a provocation, particularly to Western scholars, to think beyond Western assumptions developed over many decades of social movement research, and look behind the ideas ... ." (Kyle Harvey, H-Soz-Kult, hsozkult.de, September, 2018)