New Social Movement Theory Perspective Of The Anti-globalization Movement

Anything in the world has its antithesis, globalization as well, When the force of globalization spread rapidly around the world, another force of anti-globalization like a ghost also spread all over the world since the 1990s. Anti-globalization looks like a shadow of globalization, they battle with each other. Since the Seattle storm which opens the curtain of anti-globalization movement at the end of 1999, anti-globalization movement has become an important political power in the international society, From Davos to France Nice, from New York to Quebec in Canada, from Bangkok to Porto Alegre in Brazil, everywhere in the world has left the footsteps of the anti-globalization movement activists. As a kind of protest politics, the scale and scenes of the anti-globalization movement are very easy to make people think of new social movements that appeared in the west since the end of 1960s, what relations are they?This thesis regarded the anti-globalization movement as a kind of new social movements in the context of globalization, and analysis the inner structures, action forms and impact factors of the anti-globalization movement in the perspective of new social movement theory Systematically. The author thought the anti-globalization movement is not only a kind of continuation and development of new social movements in the new international background, it can be called "new-new social movements", but also it has challenged the further development of new social movement theory.The thesis has six parts, the main points of each part are as follows :Introduction, This part mainly explained the reasons why the author selected this topic and the significance of the selection of subjects, Comment the current state of research about this subject. At the same time, this part would present a framework of the thesis.At the end of the 20th century, the anti-globalization movement launched in the international society, which has attracted world attention and become a hotspot of academic research. The reasons that the author choose the anti-globalization movement in the perspective of the new social movement theory as the target of analysis are: First, as a "new politics"...