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Social Movements and World-System Transformation

At a particularly urgent world-historical moment, this volume brings together some of the leading researchers of social movements and global social change, and other emerging scholars and practitioners, to advance new thinking about social movements and global transformation. Social movements around the world today are responding to crisis by defying both political and epistemological borders, offering alternatives to the global capitalist order that are imperceptible through the modernist lens. Informed by a world-historical perspective, contributors explain todays struggles as building upon the experiences of the past while also coming together globally in ways that are inspiring innovation and consolidating new thinking about what a fundamentally different, more equitable, just, and sustainable world order might look like.

This collection offers new insights into contemporary movements for global justice, challenging readers to appreciate how modernist thinking both colors our own observations and complicates the work of activists seeking to resolve inequities and contradictions that are deeply embedded in Western cultural traditions and institutions. Contributors consider todays movements in the longue dure - that is, they ask how Occupy Wall Street, the Arab Spring, and other contemporary struggles for liberation reflect, build upon, or diverge from anti-colonial and other emancipatory struggles of the past. Critical to this volume is its exploration of how divisions over gender equity and diversity of national cultures and class have impacted what are increasingly intersectional global movements.

The contributions of feminist and indigenous movements come to the fore in this collective exploration of what the movements of yesterday and today can contribute to our ongoing effort to understand the dynamics of global transformation in order to help advance a more equitable, just, and ecologically sustainable world.

Jackie Smith is Professor of Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh.

Michael Goodhart is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Pittsburgh.

Patrick Manning is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of World History at the University of Pittsburgh.

John Markoff is Distinguished University Professor of Sociology and History at the University of Pittsburgh.

Political Economy of The World-System Annuals

Immanuel Wallerstein, Series Editor

Globalization, Hegemony & Power

Antisystemic movements and the global system

Edited by Thomas Reifer (2004)

Allies as Rivals

The U.S., Europe, and Japan in a changing world-system

Edited by Faruk Tabak (2005)

Hegemonic Decline

Present and past

Edited by Jonathan Friedman, Christopher Chase-Dunn (2005)

Latino/as in the World-System

Decolonization struggles in the 21st century U.S. empire

Edited by Ramon Grosfoguel, Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Jose David Saldivar (2005)

Islam and the Orientalist World-System

Edited by Khaldoun Samman, Mazhar Al-Zoby (2008)

Asia and the Transformation of the World-System

Edited by Ganesh K. Trichur (2009)

Mass Migration in the World-System

Past, present, and future

Edited by Terry-Ann Jones, Eric Mielants (2010)

Global Crises and the Challenges of the 21st Century

Edited by Thomas Reifer (2012)

Overcoming Global Inequalities

Edited by Immanuel Wallerstein, Christopher Chase-Dunn, Christian Suter (2014)

Social Movements and World-System Transformation

Edited by Jackie Smith, Michael Goodhart, Patrick Manning, John Markoff (2016)

SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND WORLD-SYSTEM TRANSFORMATION

Edited by Jackie Smith, Michael Goodhart, Patrick Manning and John Markoff

First published 2017

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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Names: Smith, Jackie, 1968- editor. | Goodhart, Michael E., 1969- editor. | Manning, Patrick, 1941- editor.

Title: Social movements and world-system transformation / edited by Jackie Smith, Michael Goodhart, Patrick Manning, John Markoff.

Description: 1 Edition. | New York : Routledge, 2016.

Series: Political economy of the world-system annuals

Identifiers: LCCN 2016016760| ISBN 9781138208834 (hardback) | ISBN 9781138208841 (pbk.) | ISBN 9781315458250 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Social movements. | International organization.

Classification: LCC HM881 .S62934 2016 | DDC 303.48/4-dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016016760

ISBN: 978-1-138-20883-4 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-138-20884-1 (pbk)

ISBN: 978-1-315-45825-0 (ebk)

This book had its origin in the 38th annual meeting of the Political Economy of the World-System, which was held in 2014 in Pittsburgh.

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Michael Goodhart, Patrick Manning, John Markoff and Jackie Smith

Todays political realities present us with particularly urgent social and ecological crises, along with promising opportunities for people to converge around alternative projects that promise to resolve intractable global problems. The contributors to this volume represent some of the leading voices in social movement scholarship and global social change, as well as several emerging scholars and practitioners engaged in work to uncover the lessons of past movements that can inform and guide todays struggles for a more just and ecologically sustainable world. Contributors encourage each other and our readers to unthink some basic assumptions and conceptual frameworks that inhibit our full understanding of both the social movements challenging globalized capitalism and the promise of the alternatives these movements are offering to the current organization of the world-system.

A predominant theme in the conversations among our authors has been the need to question some of the key concepts, methods, and assumptions that inform the study of social movements and of the world-system. Participants adopted the language of

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