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Globalization and Resistance brings together cutting edge theory and research about how global economics and politics alter the way ordinary people engage in contentious political action. The cases range from nineteenth-century Irish immigrant networks, to protests against World Bank projects in the Amazon, to contemporary transnational organizing for the environment, to the 'battle of Seattle.' The volume illuminates the different ways that globalization processes affect social movements, and vice versa.

Chapter 1 1 Globalization and Resistance: An Introduction
<br>Part 2 I Theories of Globalization and Social Movement Mobilization
<br>Chapter 3 2 Explaining Crossnational Similarities Among Social Movements
<br>Chapter 4 3 Transnational Structures and Protest: Linking Theories and Assessing Evidence
<br>Part 5 II Transnational Mobilization and National Politics
<br>Chapter 6 4 Irish Transnational Social Movements, Migrants, and the State System
<br>Chapter 7 5 Conservation TSMOs: Shaping the Protected Area Systems of Less Developed Countries
<br>Part 8 III Transnational Diffusion and Framing Processes
<br>Chapter 9 6 Transnational Diffusion and the African American Reinvention of the Ghandian Repertoire
<br>Chapter 10 7 From Local to Global: The Anti-Dam Movement in Southern Brazil, 1979-1992
<br>Chapter 11 8 Creating Transnational Solidarity: The Use of Narrative in the U. S.- Central America Peace Movement
<br>Part 12 IV Transnational Networks
<br>Chapter 13 9 Elite Alliances and Transnational Environmental Movement Organizations
<br>Chapter 14 10 Building Networks from the Outside In: Japanese NGOs and the Kyoto Climate Change Conference
<br>Part 15 V Protest and the Global Trade Regime
<br>Chapter 16 11 Transnational Political Processes and Contention Against the Global Economy
<br>Chapter 17 12 Globalizing Resistance: The Battle of Seattle and the Future of Social Movements
<br>Part 18 Conclusion
<br>Chapter 19 13 From Lumping to Spiltting: Specifying Globalization and Resistance

Jackie Smith is associate professor of sociology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Hank Johnston is editor of Mobilization: An International Journal and lecturer in sociology at San Diego State University.