In this book two titans of social movement scholarship bring together the bestcurrent research on the nexus between the local and the global in translatingthe g... » 

In this book two titans of social movement scholarship bring together the bestcurrent research on the nexus between the local and the global in translatingthe global justice movement into action at the grassroots and vice versa.Using recent cases of transnational contention_from the European Social Forumin Florence to the Argentinean human rights movement and Britishenvironmentalists from movement networks in Bristol and Glasgow to theZapatistas_the original chapters by distinguished scholars presented in thisvolume adapt current social movement theory to what appears to be a new cycleof protest developing around the globe. «