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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction: Anti-Apartheid, the Media and ‘New Social Movements’ — Beyond Eurocentrism
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Public Debates on Apartheid/Anti-Apartheid in Britain and Sweden 1960–90
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Back Matter
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'Håkan Thörn's powerful history of the anti-apartheid movement shows us how it was at once one of the most successful transnational campaigns in history, and at the same time how it produced a new globalization of politics, marked by the emergence of transnational networks of solidarity around issues of universal justice, equality and human rights. Thörn shows how the anti-apartheid movement was the most important of the social movements that have led to the construction of an active global civil society. The apartheid movement thus stands today as the historical model for the production of forms of contemporary collective action and solidarity in the new social movements - the first occurrence of what might be called a new Fifth International.' - Robert J.C. Young, New York University, Author of Postcolonialism: An Historical Introduction (2001)
'Håkan Thörn's book makes a significant contribution to our understanding of how social movements have adapted to the global age. His study is not only well-researched and thus greatly expands our knowledge of the anti-apartheid movement. It also advances our theoretical knowledge of social movements by revealing how new information technology has influenced how contemporary social movements can be effective in the new global public sphere. This is an important book.' - Ron Eyerman, Yale University, USA
'...the book makes a significant contribution to knowledge concerning global social movements...the bookoffers a rare full-length, empirically detailed and conceptually sophisticated examination of the bases of global political solidarity...It is to be hoped that this work gets the wide attention in global social movement studies that it warrants.' - Jan Aart Scholte, Acta Sociologica
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Anti-Apartheid and the Emergence of a Global Civil Society
Authors: Håkan Thörn
Series Title: St Antony's Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230505698
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Political & Intern. Studies Collection, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2006
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-3937-1Published: 28 February 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-230-23496-3Published: 28 February 2006
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-50569-8Published: 28 February 2006
Series ISSN: 2633-5964
Series E-ISSN: 2633-5972
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 251
Topics: African Politics, Political Sociology, Sociology, general, Political Science, Political Communication, Globalization