Transnational Protest and Global Activism (People, Passions, and Power)

✍ Scribed by Donatella della Porta and Sidney Tarrow (Editors)

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 287
• Series: People, Passions, and Power
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Cover
......Page 1
Title Page
......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Dedication
......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Figures......Page 9
Tables......Page 10
Preface......Page 12
1. Transnational Processes and Social Activism: An Introduction DONATELLA DELLA PORTA AND SIDNEY TARROW
......Page 15
Part I TRANSNATIONALISM FROM THE INSIDE
......Page 32
2. A Limited Transnationalization? The British Environmental Movement CHRISTOPHER ROOTES......Page 33
3. Cities in the World: Local Civil Society and Global Issues in Britain MARIO DIANI
......Page 56
Part I IDIFFUSION AND SCALE SHIFT
......Page 79
4. The Sequencing of Transnational and National Social Movement Mobilization: The Organizational Mobilization of the Global and U.S. Environmental Movements ERIK JOHNSON AND JOHN D. McCARTHY
......Page 80
5. The Impact of Transnational Protest on Social Movement Organizations:
Mass Media and the Making of ATTAC Germany FELIX KOLB......Page 103
6. Scale Shift in Transnational Contention SIDNEY TARROW AND DOUG McADAM
......Page 129
Part III INTERNATIONALIZATION
......Page 156
7. Patterns of Dynamic Multilevel Governance and the Insider-Outsider Coalition KATHRYN SIKKINK
......Page 157
8. Multiple Belongings, Tolerant Identities, and the Construction of "Another Politics": Between the European Social Forum and the Local Social Fora DONATELLA DELLA PORTA
......Page 180
9. Social Movements beyond Borders: Understanding Two Eras of Transnational Activism W. LANCE BENNETT
......Page 208
10. Conclusion: "Globalization," Complex Internationalism, and Transnational Contention SIDNEY TARROW AND DONATELLA DELLA PORTA
......Page 232
Appendix A
Organizational Consolidation......Page 252
Appendix B
Repertoires of Action......Page 253
References......Page 255
Index......Page 276
About the Contributors......Page 285