Transnational Protest and Global Activism
In this book, two titans of social movement scholarship bring together the best current research on the nexus between the local and the global in translating the global justice movement into action at the grass roots, and vice versa. Using recent cases of transnational contention_from the European Social Forum in Florence to the Argentinean human rights movement and British environmentalists, from movement networks in Bristol and Glasgow to the Zapatistas_the original chapters by distinguished scholars presented in this volume adapt current social movement theory to what appears to be a new cycle of protest developing around the globe.
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Transnational Protest and Global Activism
In this book, two titans of social movement scholarship bring together the best current research on the nexus between the local and the global in translating the global justice movement into action at the grass roots, and vice versa. Using recent cases of transnational contention_from the European Social Forum in Florence to the Argentinean human rights movement and British environmentalists, from movement networks in Bristol and Glasgow to the Zapatistas_the original chapters by distinguished scholars presented in this volume adapt current social movement theory to what appears to be a new cycle of protest developing around the globe.
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In this book, two titans of social movement scholarship bring together the best current research on the nexus between the local and the global in translating the global justice movement into action at the grass roots, and vice versa. Using recent cases of transnational contention_from the European Social Forum in Florence to the Argentinean human rights movement and British environmentalists, from movement networks in Bristol and Glasgow to the Zapatistas_the original chapters by distinguished scholars presented in this volume adapt current social movement theory to what appears to be a new cycle of protest developing around the globe.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781461666721
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date: 07/26/2004
Series: People, Passions, and Power: Social Movements, Interest Organizations, and the P
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 304
File size: 9 MB

About the Author

Donatella della Porta is professor of sociology at the European University Institute, Florence. Sidney Tarrow is the Maxwell M. Upson Professor of Government and professor of sociology at Cornell University.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Transnational Processes and Social Activism: An Introduction
Part 2 I Transnationalism from the Inside
Chapter 3 A Limited Transnationalization? The British Environmental Movement
Chapter 4 Cities in the World: Local Civil Society and Global Issues in Britain
Part 5 II Diffusion and Scale Shift
Chapter 6 The Sequencing of Transnational and National Social Movement Mobilization: The Organizational Mobilization of the Global and U.S. Environmental Movements
Chapter 7 The Impact of Transnational Protest on Social Movement Organizations: Mass Media and the Making of ATTAC Germany
Chapter 8 Scale Shift in Transnational Contention
Part 9 III Internationalization
Chapter 10 Patterns of Dynamic Multilevel Governance and the Insider-Outsider Coalition
Chapter 11 Multiple Belongings, Tolerant Identities, and the Construction of "Another Politics": Between the European Social Forum and the Local Social Fora
Chapter 12 Social Movements beyond Borders: Understanding Two Eras of Transnational Activism
Chapter 13 Conclusion: "Globalization," Complex Internationalism, and Transnational Contention
Chapter 14 Appendix A: Organizational Consolidation
Chapter 15 Appendix B: Repertoires of Action
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