Why Social Movements Matter: An Introduction by Cox, Laurence

Why Social Movements Matter: An Introduction (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781786607829)

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Format: Paperback
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Why Social Movements Matter: An Introduction by Cox, Laurence

Why Social Movements Matter: An Introduction

$34.00
Why Social Movements Matter: An Introduction by Cox, Laurence

Why Social Movements Matter: An Introduction

$34.00
Format: Paperback
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Social movements and popular struggle are a central part of today's world, but often neglected or misunderstood by media commentary as well as experts in other fields. In an age when struggles over climate change, women's rights, austerity politics, racism, warfare and surveillance are central to the future of our societies, we urgently need to understand social movements. Accessible, comprehensive and grounded in deep scholarship, Why Social Movements Matter explains social movements for a general educated readership, those interested in progressive politics and scholars and students in other fields. It shows how much social movements are part of our everyday lives, and how in many ways they have shaped the world we live in over centuries. It explores the relationship between social movements and the left, how movements develop and change, the complex relationship between movements and intellectual life, and delivers a powerful argument for rethinking how the social world is constructed. Drawing on three decades of experience, Why Social Movements Matter shows the real space for hope in a contested world.

Author: Laurence Cox
ISBN-10: 1786607824
ISBN-13: 9781786607829
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Language: English
Published: 06/08/2018
Pages: 150
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.30d
By Laurence Cox
By Laurence Cox
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Laurence Cox is one of Europe's leading social movement researchers, Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the National University of Ireland Maynooth and Associate Researcher at the Coll鑒e d'Etudes Mondiales, Paris. He has published widely on different aspects of social movements, including We Make Our Own History: Marxism and Social Movements in the Twilight of Neoliberalism, Voices of 1968: Documents from the Global North, Understanding European Movements, Marxism and Social Movements and Silence Would Be Treason: Last Writings of Ken Saro-Wiwa. Cox cofounded and coedits the activist/academic social movements journal Interface. He has been involved in many different kinds of movement since the 1980s, including ecological, international solidarity, human rights and organising against repression, antiwar, community activism, radical media, self-organised spaces, alternative education and the alter-globalisation 'movement of movements'.

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