Porta, Donatella della.
Globalization from Below : Transnational Activists and Protest Networks. - 1 online resource (317 pages) - Social Movements, Protest, and Contention . - Social Movements, Protest, and Contention .
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1. Globalization and Social Movements -- 2. The Development of a Global Movement: Network Strategies, Democracy, Participation -- 3. Master Frame, Activists' Ideas, and Collective Identity -- 4. Global-Net for Global Movements? A Network of Networks for a Movement of Movements -- 5. Media-Conscious and Nonviolent? Protest Repertoires -- 6. Transnational Protest and Public Order -- 7. Politics, Antipolitics, and Other Politics: Democracy and the Movement for Globalization from Below -- 8. The Global Movement and Democracy -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
Presenting the first systematic empirical research on the global justice movement, Globalization from Below analyzes a movement from the viewpoints of the activists, organizers, and demonstrators themselves. The authors traveled to Genoa with anti-G8 protesters and collected data from more than 800 participants. They examine the interactions between challengers and elites, and discuss how new models of activism fit into current social movement work.
9780816697632
Anti-globalization movement.
Globalization.
Electronic books.
HN17.5 -- .G582 2006eb
303.484
Globalization from Below : Transnational Activists and Protest Networks. - 1 online resource (317 pages) - Social Movements, Protest, and Contention . - Social Movements, Protest, and Contention .
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1. Globalization and Social Movements -- 2. The Development of a Global Movement: Network Strategies, Democracy, Participation -- 3. Master Frame, Activists' Ideas, and Collective Identity -- 4. Global-Net for Global Movements? A Network of Networks for a Movement of Movements -- 5. Media-Conscious and Nonviolent? Protest Repertoires -- 6. Transnational Protest and Public Order -- 7. Politics, Antipolitics, and Other Politics: Democracy and the Movement for Globalization from Below -- 8. The Global Movement and Democracy -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
Presenting the first systematic empirical research on the global justice movement, Globalization from Below analyzes a movement from the viewpoints of the activists, organizers, and demonstrators themselves. The authors traveled to Genoa with anti-G8 protesters and collected data from more than 800 participants. They examine the interactions between challengers and elites, and discuss how new models of activism fit into current social movement work.
9780816697632
Anti-globalization movement.
Globalization.
Electronic books.
HN17.5 -- .G582 2006eb
303.484