Skip to content

Opening book details…

Can I read Global Struggles and Social Change : from Prehistory to World Revolution in the Twenty-first Century on EtoBox?

Global Struggles and Social Change : from Prehistory to World Revolution in the Twenty-first Century by Christopher K. Chase-Dunn, Paul Almeida is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Global Struggles and Social Change : from Prehistory to World Revolution in the Twenty-first Century about?

Deftly demonstrates how the rise and fall of social movements throughout history is closely linked to economic and political developments. In the early decades of the twenty-first century, an international movement to slow the pace of climate change mushroomed across the globe. The self-proclaimed Climate Justice movement urges immediate action to reduce carbon emissions and calls for the adoption of bold new policies to address global warming before irreversible and catastrophic damage threatens the habitability of the planet. On another front, since the 1980s, multiple waves of resistance have occurred around the world against the uneven transition from state-led development to the neoliberal globalization project. Both Climate Justice and Anti-Austerity movements represent the urgency of understanding how global change affects the ability of citizens around the world to mobilize and protect themselves from planetary warming and the loss of social protections granted in earlier eras. In Global Struggles and Social Change , Christopher Chase-Dunn and Paul Almeida explore how global change stimulates the formation and shape of such movements. Contending that large-scale economic sh

Author
Christopher K. Chase-Dunn, Paul Almeida
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Published
2020
Language
EN
ISBN
9781421438627
Subjects
Sociology, Science, Social_sciences

More by Christopher K. Chase-Dunn, Paul Almeida

Browse all works by Christopher K. Chase-Dunn, Paul Almeida

Similar books