Globalization and Social Movements: Islamism, Feminism, and the Global Justice Movement

by Valentine M. Moghadam

This clear and concise book examines the crucial relationship between globalization and social movements. Deftly combining nuanced theory with rich empirical examples, leading scholar Valentine M. Moghadam focuses especially on three transnational social movements-Islamism, feminism, and global justice. Defining globalization as a complex process in which the mobility of capital, peoples, organizations, movements, and ideas takes on an increasingly transnational form, the author shows how both physical and electronic mobility has helped to create dynamic global social movements. Globalization has engendered the spread of neoliberal capitalism across the world, but it also has engendered opposition and collective action.

Genres: Feminism, Nonfiction, Political Science, Sociology

180 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2008

About the author

Valentine Moghadam (born 1952) is a feminist scholar, sociologist, activist, and author, whose work focuses on women in development, globalization, feminist networks, and female employment in the Middle East.

She has taught and performed research at various institutions of higher education, most recently as Professor of Sociology and Director of International Affairs at Northeastern University. Previously she held the position of Director of the Women’s Studies Program at Purdue University, where she was also a Professor of Sociology. Prior to that appointment, Moghadam worked for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization as the chief of gender equality and development.

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Reviews

[Heather Colacurcio · Rating 3 out of 5]

Read this for an Anthropology of Globalization course. For an introductory level course, I found this material to be a bit confusing. Moghadam focuses on a select few movements, leading to some repetition.