NOMADS OF THE PRESENT. SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND INDIVIDUAL NEEDS IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY

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Recent decades have seen a remarkable growth of forms of collective action such as student and youth protest, feminism and the peace and ecology movements. Are these loosely-organized movements politically ineffective? And how are they linked with the everyday life experiences of individuals?

Alberto Melucci is recognized as one of the foremost European researchers in the field of social movements. In this book he provides a pathbreaking framework for considering social movements and individual needs in ‘complex’ western societies. He provides a succinct account of changing patterns of personal experience in such matters as birth and death, sexuality and our relations with the natural environment. And Melucci clarifies the ways in which social movements contribute to greater individual self-expression – laying the foundations for a culture of dynamic freedom and new democratic rights in everyday life.