The Importance Of Global Social Movements

The most challenging problem for global social movements is the national boundaries that prevent a broad range of communication at the global level. In the modern era, the use of the Internet and the World Wide Web has provided a massive network in which people can communicate across national boundaries, but these methods of communication exist only in a text-based, audio, or video medium. These aspects of communication are a n excellent source of communication at this level, but they do not provide the necessary material support and social interaction that social movements need at the global level. More so, first world nations and transitional corporations have often been known to thwart digital communications that social movements use to help impoverished or marginalized peoples throughout the world:
At the national levels, knowledge sharing through peer=to=peer networks continues to be sanctioned, and in many countries, autonomous communication projects are targeted by repression (Milan, , p.4).
In this context, the bridge between digital communications and …show more content…
The NRD provides a new perspective on the globalization of social movements that attempt to understand the advanced methods of transnational capitalism that has racialized the exploitation of labor and natural resources throughout the world. Currently, the NRD provides a new way to analyze the political economies of the world outside of previous nationalist perspective, which reflect a continued legacy of white hegemonic racism as a means in which to exploit people in the third world:
The political economy of the New Racial Domain is driven and largely determined by the forces of transnational capitalism, and the public policies of state neoliberalism, which rests on an unholy trinity, or deadly triad, of structural barriers to a decent life (Cole ,