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Contents

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations and acronyms

Introduction

1 | Challenging globalization: developing alternative strategies

Definitions and differing approaches

Neoliberal approaches

Shifts of emphasis

Social democratic approaches

Alternative approaches

Populism from the Right as well as from the Left

Building alliances

2 | Democratization and marketization: the state, the market and civil society

The ‘end of history’ and the triumph of Western liberal democracy

Globalization and democratization: some paradoxes?

Alternative approaches to democracy

‘Civil society’, ‘social capital’ and capacity-building for active citizenship

Possible implications for global social movements?

3 | Social movements: competing approaches

Differing approaches to studying social movements and social movement organizations

Starting from collective mobilization as rational action

New social movement approaches

Social movements and social movement organizations concerned with green and environmental issues

4 | Social movements old and new: alternatives or allies?

How new?

So what about the old?

Globalization and the need for international solidarity - at the centre of labour movement concerns

Union revitalization in the American labour movement: a case study from California

Old and/or new? Alternatives or allies?

5 | Empowerment, accountability and participation: challenges for local and global movements

Opportunities and challenges for global social movements

‘Students Against Sweatshops’: a case in point

Drawing from community development and community education debates

Popular education in practice: the Landless People’s Movement in Brazil

6 | People to people exchanges: sharing local experiences in a global context

Insiders as well as outsiders as experts, learning from sharing experiences and networking

People-to-people exchanges for urban transformation

Towards new ways of sharing insider and outsider learning

7 | Globalization and gender: new threats, new strategies

Women, development and globalization: differing approaches

From ‘Women in Development’ to ‘Gender and Development’

Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN): critical feminist perspectives

Marketisation of Governance: an example of a DAWN publication

DAWN’s particular contribution

8 | Rights to public services: the Global Campaign for Education

The international context

The context in terms of debates within NGOs and trade union organizations

The Global Campaign for Education is launched

GCE’s achievements at Dakar and beyond

Wider implications?

9 | Learning from Jubilee 2000: mobilizing for debt relief

Jubilee 2000 Coalition

Participants’ perspectives on Jubilee 2000

Exploring lessons and their potential implications

Jubilee 2000 and differing perspectives on social movements

10 | Resisting imperialism: building social movements for peace and social justice

Building on the links: the peace movement and the Stop the War Coalition

Building on the links: campaigning on debt and trade

Possible implications for building sustainable challenges?

The battle of ideas continues

Select bibliography

Index