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An introduction to an edited volume of eleven essays (each abstracted in IRPS No. 88) that present a cultural-analytic perspective on social movements. Included are discussions of conceptions of culture in the analysis of social movements, ways in which cultural processes work in mobilization efforts, & three analyses of specific case studies. The cultural analysis advocated in this book is focused on the interpretive frames constructed by collectivities. It is suggested that this framing perspective opens the possibility of linking broad collective action frames with their cognitive equivalents at the level of participative action. Particular attention is given to key junctures in movement development, key organizational situations, & points of contact with institutional & structural constraints as a way of examining the interaction between the culture of the larger society & movement subcultures. The key methodological question in this regard is not the validity of interpretations as much as how cultural products are chosen & whether they are truly representative. It is argued that, ultimately, the value of cultural analysis will rest on how well its products become embedded in & related to existing knowledge. D. M. Smith

The article employs anthropological ritual theory and the concepts of symbolism and liminality to provide a theoretical framework for analyzing ethnographic insights into the academic peace research community in Germany. Using secondary sources for a broader historical outline, I analyze the evolution of peace research discourses in Germany from the beginnings as a new social movement to a contemporary professionalized policy space in which knowledge discourses are (re)produced. Academic conferences and the routines around presenting theoretical papers have become institutionalized by the ritual dynamics of a small group of organizers and venues, fostering "indoor rituals" that represent transformations of the activities of the "outdoor" peace movement that was active in postwar Germany for many decades.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of contributors -- 1 Memory and social movements: an introduction -- 2 The ascension of 'comfort women' in South Korean colonial memory -- 3 The past in the present: memory and Indian women's politics -- 4 History as strategy. imagining universal feminism in the women's movement -- 5 'The memory of history as a leitmotif for nonviolent resistance' - peaceful protests against nuclear missiles in Mutlangen, 1983-7 -- 6 Atomic testing in Australia: memories, mobilizations and mistrust -- 7 'The FBI Stole My Fiddle': song and memory in US radical environmentalism, 1980-95 -- 8 Memory 'within', 'of' and 'by' urban movements -- 9 Memory as a strategy? - dealing with the past in political proceedings against communists in 1950/60s West Germany -- 10 'We believe to have good reason to regard these comrades, who died in March, to be ours.' The remembrance of the Märzgefallenen by workers' organizations during the Weimar Republic -- 11 Memory as political intervention: labor movement life narration in Australia, Jack Holloway and May Brodney -- 12 Remembering the movement for eight hours: commemoration and mobilization in Australia -- 13 The memory of trade unionism in Germany -- 14 Protest cycles and contentious moments in memory activism: insights from postwar Germany -- 15 Social movements, white and black: memory struggles in the United States South since the Civil War -- 16 Afterword: the multiple entanglements of memory and activism -- Index.

This clear and concise book examines the crucial relationship between globalization and social movements. Deftly combining nuanced theory with rich empirical examples, leading scholar Valentine M. Moghadam focuses especially on three transnational social movements-Islamism, feminism, and global justice. Defining globalization as a complex process in which the mobility of capital, peoples, organizations, movements, and ideas takes on an increasingly transnational form, the author shows how both physical and electronic mobility has helped to create dynamic global social movements. Globalization has engendered the spread of neoliberal capitalism across the world, but it also has engendered opposition and collective action.