Barriers & Bridges

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The purpose of this book is to examine whether the "Movement of movements" has the capacity to unite into a larger movement for social change. Despite nine years after the "Battle of Seattle, " multiple protests, conferences, listservs, and World Social Forums (WSFs), this social movement phenomenon is presently fragmented into many narrowly focused movements finding themselves precariously poised against a "common enemy." However, there are many indications that factions of this Movement of movements has some potential transformation capacity into a higher level of unity greater than what is currently experienced based on shared grievances and values. This analysis provides a new theory called the Relational Empowerment Strategy (RES) that can act as a foundation to facilitate separate movements to unite for the common good and shift society into a more sustainable paradigm. This book should help scholar-activists, scholars, and activists reexamine this movement phenomenon's future.