Social Movement Fominaya

The book “Social Movements and Globalization” by Cristina Flesher Fominaya is a dissection of intriguing concepts relevant to the political and economic processes of the last century along with the global desire for social transformation. Fominaya’s eight chapter book focuses on the understanding of the dynamics of social movements through their challenges with globalization. Accordingly, the author explains the impact of globalizing trends through the development of various social sectors, such as the expansion of neoliberal policies to present her findings. She manages to capture the complexity of both to further understand the way they influence one another by developing her arguments from the insights of social and cultural studies within

Thereby, her argument proceeds to link the functions of neoliberal globalization to the emergence of social movements. In one sense, she explains how neoliberalism is the “advanced” form of global capitalism, whose scope and depth are the result of specific set of ideologies and policies. She later proceeds to build on the possible links between national and transnational mobilization. Thereby she discusses the dynamics involved in the transnational distribution of different forms of local and national mobilizations. By that, we stress on how diffusion processes are a constant feature of social movement emergence and

Making both call for actionnalisme Touraine and Melucci as the design of the hegemony of Gramsci and the work of thinkers of the Frankfurt School, including Habermas. The author analyzes, using concrete examples, the importance of culture and cultural tactics of social movements. Some of the examples of cultural actions illustrated in this chapter include the occupations movement antiroute English, “Slut walk” and the theft of Yomango, as she goes on to critique the limitation of these forms of activism. Moreover, the book proceeds to address the issue of relationships of social movements with the media and new information technologies. Fominaya proposes that even though mass media can be a powerful tool for social change, they have the capability of harming social movement immensely. This issue raises various questions since we are dealing with the impacts of social movements and globalization on each other, by integrating recent powerful means to ensure their credible mass impacts, which means that we now know notice a thin threshold that the mass media reaches to become more harmful than beneficial to social movements On new information technologies, and beyond the simple idea of social media become essential in the work mobilizing protest groups, several major issues are discussed such as free access to knowledge, free software