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"Social Movements: The key Concepts" has relevance for a range of disciplines such as healthcare, development studies, anthropology and globalization. Material covered includes the Civil Rights Movement, direct action, hactyvism, indymedia, feminism and the Anti-Globalization Movement. An A-Z Index and extensive bibliography provides tips for further exploration of this fascinating field. Students of all levels stand to gain much from this up-to-date and compact distillation of all the key facts

Social Movements: The key Concepts" has relevance for a range of disciplines such as healthcare, development studies, anthropology and globalization. Material covered includes the Civil Rights Movement, direct action, hactyvism, indymedia, feminism and the Anti-Globalization Movement. An A-Z Index and extensive bibliography provides tips for further exploration of this fascinating field. Students of all levels stand to gain much from this up-to-date and compact distillation of all the key facts

"This book fuses two key concerns of contemporary sociology: globalisation and its discontents with the 'complexity turn' in social theory." "The authors utilise complexity theory to analyse the shifting constellation of social movement networks that constitute opposition to neo-liberal globalisation. They explore how seemingly chaotic and highly differentiated social actors interacting globally through computer-mediated communications, face to face gatherings and protests constitute a 'multitude' not easily grasped through established models of social and political change

"This book fuses two key concerns of contemporary sociology: globalisation and its discontents with the 'complexity turn' in social theory." "The authors utilise complexity theory to analyse the shifting constellation of social movement networks that constitute opposition to neo-liberal globalisation. They explore how seemingly chaotic and highly differentiated social actors interacting globally through computer-mediated communications, face to face gatherings and protests constitute a 'multitude' not easily grasped through established models of social and political change."

This article explores the sociologically neglected practice of hitch-hiking. It demonstrates the paucity of research on what is potentially a fascinating instance of social interaction and it argues that hitch-hiking provides an interesting test case for the applicability of recent social theories of risk and trust. The reasons for the relative decline in hitch-hiking in Britain are discussed and comparisons are made with continental Europe and the U.S.. The article suggests that despite the increasingly risk-averse nature of public bodies, attention to this subject could provide interesting possibilities for policy makers concerned with the development of sustainable modes of transport, as well as for those concerned with the re-vitalisation of civil society.

yes ; This paper brings together a number of theoretical and political interests we have with the concept of global movements and the alter-globalisation, anticapitalist, and social justice movements in particular (Chesters & Welsh, 2004, 2005, 2006). The argument contained in this paper is that these movements are the emergent outcome of complex processes of interaction, encounter and exchange facilitated and mediated by new technologies of mobility and communication and they suggest the emergence of a post-representational cultural politics qualitatively different from the identity based social movements of the past.