Description: This book examines social movements and transnational networks in the context of globalization in all its forms-economic, political, cultural, and technological. In addition to case studies on Islamism, feminism, and global justice, the third edition explores the origins, feat...
Brief description: Valentine M. Moghadam is Professor of Sociology and former Director of the International Affairs Program at Northeastern University, Boston. Previously she directed women's studies programs at Purdue University and Illinois State University. She was also a section chief at UNESCO (2004-06), heading the Gender Equality and Development Unit of the Social and Human Sciences Sector and a senior researcher at UNU/WIDER. Her areas of research include globalization, transnational social movements and feminist networks, and gender, politics, and development in the Middle East and North Africa.
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"A sweeping historical and contemporary analysis of the vagaries of global capital and its feminist, fundamentalist, and populist discontents across world regions. An essential resource for tracking the sociopolitical and economic results of and transnational social movement resistances to globalization from a feminist world-systems perspective. Many thanks to Valentine Moghadam for this timely and greatly needed third edition that challenges us to think harder about prospects for global justice in these times." --Anne Sisson Runyan, University of Cincinnati, University of Cincinnati
"Val Moghadam provides a highly accessible and thorough analysis of the varied, global terrains of struggle that shape the highly polarized politics of our time. By analyzing the common global forces fueling both left- and right-wing populisms, she provides a corrective to the often one-sided emphasis on exclusionary populisms. She shows how the long histories of nonviolent struggle by the global Left provide a robust and viable foundation for a more inclusive and democratic global politics." --Jackie Smith, University of Pittsburgh "This third edition updates Valentine Moghadam's assessments of the social movements and regime changes that have occurred in the Middle East and North Africa, her analysis of jihadism as a counter-hegemonic but reactionary global movement, the rise of twenty-first century neo-fascist and right-wing populist movements and regimes, and recent developments in the global justice movement. Moghadam uses a sophisticated feminist Marxism to penetrate the fog of globalization and world politics. Her book is a valuable tool for university classes and for that part of the reading public who want to address the challenges of the twenty-first century in a way that will move humanity toward a more democratic and collectively rational world society." --Christopher Chase-Dunn, Distinguished Professor of Sociology, University of California-Riverside