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Transnational Protest and Global Activism


Transnational Protest and Global Activism


People, Passions, and Power: Social Movements, Interest Organizations, and the P

von: Donatella Della Porta, Sidney Tarrow, W Lance Bennett, Mario Diani, Erik Johnson, Felix Kolb, Doug McAdam, John D. McCarthy, Christopher Rootes, Kathryn Sikkink

64,99 €

Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: EPUB
Veröffentl.: 26.07.2004
ISBN/EAN: 9781461666721
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 304

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

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