The Palgrave Handbook of Social Movements, Revolution, and Social Transformation

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This handbook on social movements, revolution, and social transformation analyzes people’s struggles to bring about social change in the age of globalization. It examines the origins, nature, dynamics, and challenges of such movements as they aim to change dominant social, economic, and political institutions and structures across the globe. Departing from a theoretical introduction that explores major classical and contemporary theories of social movements and transformation, the contributions collected here use a class-based approach to examine key cases of social movements, rebellions, and revolutions worldwide from the turn of the twentieth to the early twenty-first centuries. Against this wide-ranging background, the handbook concludes by charting the varied and competing future developments and trajectories of social movements, revolutions, and social transformations. Front Matter ....Pages i-xxiii Introduction: Dynamics of Social Movements, Revolution, and Social Transformation (Berch Berberoglu)....Pages 1-14 Front Matter ....Pages 15-15 Classical and Contemporary Conventional Theories of Social Movements (Clayton D. Peoples)....Pages 17-34 Methodological Approaches to Movement Waves and the Making of History (Ben Manski)....Pages 35-63 The Marxist Theory of Social Movements, Revolution, and Social Transformation (Berch Berberoglu)....Pages 65-83 Twentieth-Century Socialist Revolutions and Their Class Components: Russia, China, Cuba, and Vietnam (James F. Petras)....Pages 85-113 Front Matter ....Pages 115-115 Repression, Resistance, and Development of the Labor Movement in the United States (Andrew Kolin)....Pages 117-149 Decade of Turbulence: Social Movements and Rebellion in the 1960s (Alan J. Spector)....Pages 151-176 Neoliberalism and Social Movements in Latin America: Mobilizing the Resistance (James F. Petras, Henry Veltmeyer)....Pages 177-211 Neoliberalism, State Repression and the Rise of Social Protest in Africa (Patrick Bond)....Pages 213-231 The Naxalite Movement, the Oppressive State, and the Revolutionary Struggle in India (Ashok Kumbamu)....Pages 233-247 Neoliberalism, Contentious Politics, and the Rise of Authoritarianism in Southeast Asia (Walden Bello)....Pages 249-267 Nationalism and Nationalist Movements in the Age of Neoliberal Globalization (Berch Berberoglu)....Pages 269-298 Front Matter ....Pages 299-299 Global Justice Movements: Past, Present, and Future (Lauren Langman, Tova Benski)....Pages 301-324 Neoliberalism, the Global Capitalist Crisis, and the Occupy Wall Street Movement (Levin Welch)....Pages 325-351 Neoliberal Globalization and Transnational Women’s Movements in the Early Twenty-First Century (Ligaya Lindio-McGovern)....Pages 353-372 Social Movements and New Technology: The Dynamics of Cyber Activism in the Digital Age (Victoria Carty, Francisco G. Reynoso Barron)....Pages 373-397 System Change, Not Climate Change: Radical Social Transformation in the Twenty-First Century (John Foran)....Pages 399-425 Global Social Movements and World Revolutions in the Twenty-First Century (Christopher Chase-Dunn, Sandor Nagy)....Pages 427-446 Conclusion: Socialism in Our Time? The Prospects for Socialism in the Twenty-First Century (Berch Berberoglu)....Pages 447-452 Back Matter ....Pages 453-479