Social Movements and Globalization

Cristina Flesher Fominaya is Reader in Social Politics and Media at Loughborough University, UK, and was Senior Marie Curie Fellow at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth from 2013-2015. She is a founding editor of the global social movements journal Interface and an editor of the journal Social Movement Studies. She is also founder of the Council for European Studies Social Movement Research Network.

1. Introduction.- 2. Social Movements and Globalization: Concepts and Debates.- 3. Globalization and Social Movements.- 4. The Global Justice Movement.- 5. Cultural Resistance in a Globalized World.- 6. Social Movements, Media, and Information and Communication Technologies.- 7. Arab Spring, Indignados, Occupy: A Global Wave of Protest?.- 8. Conclusion.