The History of Social Movements in Global Perspective

Stefan Berger is Professor of Social History and Director of the Institute for Social Movements at the Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, as well as Executive Chair of the Foundation History of the Ruhr. His research and publications focus on the history of social movements, nationalism and national identity, historiography and British and German modern and contemporary history. Holger Nehring is both Professor of Contemporary European History and Head of the Division of History and Politics at the University of Stirling, UK. His research and publications focus on the history of peace and violence, the history of social movements and activism, and Cold War history.  

Introduction: Towards a Global History of Social Movements by Stefan Berger and Holger Nehring. - PART I: Conceptual, Methodological and Theoretical Considerations 1. - Studying Social Movements: Some Conceptual Challenges by Dieter Rucht 2. - Subaltern Studies as a History of Social Movements in India by Rochona Majumdar 3. - Trans-Pacific Feminism: Writing Women’s Movement from a Transnational Perspective by Seonjoo Park. - PART II: Continental Perspectives on the History of Social Movements 4. - Social Movements in Latin America from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Centuries by Claudia Wassermann. - 5 Dissident Political History: Social Movements in Northern America by Felicia Kornbluh 6. - European Social Protest, 1000 - 2000 by Marcel van der Linden 7. - Social Movements in Africa by Andreas Eckert 8. - Popular Movements in the Middle East and North Africa by John Chalcraft 9. - Social Movements in India, 1800 to the Present by Arvind Elangovan 10. - Subjectivation and Social Movements in Post-Colonial Korea by Jung Han Kim. - 11 The History of Social Movements in Australia by Sean Scalmer. - PART III: Social Movements in Transnational Historical Perspective. - 12. - From Cultural Wars to the Crisis of Humanity: Moral Movements in the Modern Age by Alexandra Przyrembel 13 . - Labour movements in Global Historical Perspective: Conceptual Eurocentrism and its Problems by Stefan Berger 14. - Myths, Big Myths and Global Environmentalism by Frank Uekötter 15. - Equality, Difference and Participation: the Women’s Movement in Global Perspective by Ilse Lenz 16. - Peace movements by Holger Nehring 17. - 1968: a Social Movement Sui Generis by Gerd Rainer Horn 18. - Terrorism between Social Movements, the State and Media Societies by Klaus Weinhauer 19. - Fascism as a Social  Movement in a Transnational Context by Kevin Passmore 20. - Post-Fascist Right-Wing Social Movements by Fabian Virchow 21. - The Global Justice Movement – Resistance to Dominant EconomicModels of Globalisation by Claudia Baumgarten 22. - The ‘Arab Spring’ in Global Perspectice: Social Movements, Changing Contexts and Political Transitions in the Arab World (2010 – 2014) by Nora Lafi. - Notes on Contributors. - Index

“Kevin Passmore and Fabian Virchow’s contributions on fascist and post-fascist movements, respectively, are a welcome addition to a field often concerned solely with progressive and left-leaning activism. … The incredibly complex array of ideas interrogated within this volume works as a provocation, particularly to Western scholars, to think beyond Western assumptions developed over many decades of social movement research, and look behind the ideas … .” (Kyle Harvey, H-Soz-Kult, hsozkult.de, September, 2018)