Complexity and Social Movements: Multitudes at the Edge of Chaos

by Graeme Chesters and Ian Welsh

Book Overview

Fusing two key concerns of contemporary sociology: globalization and its discontents, and the 'complexity turn' in social theory, authors Chesters and Welsh utilize complexity theory to analyze the shifting constellation of social movement networks that constitute opposition to neo-liberal globalization. They explore how seemingly chaotic and highly differentiated social actors interacting globally through computer mediated communications, face-to-face...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415439744
• ISBN13: 9780415439749
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"