Power, Profit and Protest by Burgmann, Verity -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Part title Title page Contents Preface and Acknowledgments 1 Social movements and social change

Understanding social movements American versus European approaches A time of hope: new social movements debate the old A time of despair: postmodernism and identity politics Social movements and the problem of globalisation The aims of this study

2 The Aboriginal movement

In denial: white society and indigenous Australians The development of the Aboriginal movement The land rights movement The battle for native title rights Reconciliation, the stolen generations and the 'sorry' debate

3 The women's movement

Earlier waves The development of the contemporary women's movement Ideological divisions in the 1970s and 1980s Organisational divisions Making demands: winning some, losing some The women's movement and lesbianism The women's movement and Aboriginal women Women helping women: ideology and practice The women's movement and the state Feminism in the 1990s Feminism in the new millennium

4 The green movement

Environmentalists and the greening of politics Some important campaigns Some current organisations The Australian Greens and parliamentary politics Ideological conflicts The labour movement and the environment Corporate power and environmental politics Corporate strategies: confrontation and co-option A green state? Ebbing of the green tide? New wave environmentalism?

5 Anti-capitalism and anti-corporate globalisation

Naming globalisation and its discontents The old 'anti-capitalist' social movement The case against neo-liberal globalisation Mounting resistance in the 1990s Seattle and S11: case studies of the new anti-capitalism Democracy versus the neo-liberal strong state

6 Globalisation: the cancer stage of capitalism?

Absence of critique: strength or weakness? A crisis of capitalism Possibilities for the future Revolution in the cause of reform?

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