COMPLEXITY AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

MULTITUDES AT THE EDGE OF CHAOS

Graeme Chesters And Welsh

Routledge

International Library Of Sociology
Founded by Karl Mannheim

Editör: John Urry

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Introducing Global Movements

Prefiguration And Emergence
Reflexive Framing: Identities, Protest Dynamics And Technology
From Carnival Againts Capitalism To Death At High Noon: States Fight Back
Ecologies Of Action Within Global Civil Society
Shadow Realm: Beyond Resistance To Global Nexus
The Death Of Collective İdentity? Global Movement As A Parallelogram Of Forces
The Map İs Not The Territory

Complexity and Social Movements
This book fuses two key concerns of contemporary sociology: globalisation and its discontents with the ‘complexity turn’in social theory.
The authors utilise complexity theory to analyse the shifting constellation of social movement Networks that constitute opposition to neo – liberal globalisation. They explore how seemingly chaotic and highly differentiated social actors interacting globally through computer – mediated communications, face to face gatherings and protests constitute a ‘multitude’ not easily grasped through established models of social and political change.
Drawing upon extensive empirical research and utilising concepts drawn from the natural and social sciences, this book suggests a framework for understanding mobilisation, identity formation and information flows in global social movements operating within complex societies. It suggests that this ‘movement of movements’ exhibits an emergent order on the edge of chaos, a turbulence that is recasting political agency in the twenty – first century.