Transnational Movements and The World Social Forum Process

• In Event: 403 - Regular Session. Infrastructures of Social Movements

Abstract

This research on transnational social movements and global civil society investigates the potential for a network of radical social movements to come together to play an important role in world politics in the coming decades. The histories of united and popular fronts are particularly relevant to contemporary and near-future situations. The world-systems perspective sees the evolution of global governance and the capitalist world economy as driven by a sequence of world revolutions in which local rebellions that are clustered together in time pose threats to the structures of global power. We explain how this is happening in the early 21st century.

Author

• Christopher Chase-Dunn, University of California-Riverside