Format:
Online-Ressource (267 Seiten)
ISBN:
9781461666721
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9781299791053
Series Statement:
People, passions, and power: Social movements, interest organizations, and the political process
Content:
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 cyc
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Description based upon print version of record
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Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Preface; 1 Transnational Processes and Social Activism: An Introduction Donatella della Porta and Sidney Tarrow; Part I TRANSNATIONALISM FROM THE INSIDE; 2 A Limited Transnationalization? The British Environmental Movement Christopher Rootes; 3 Cities in the World: Local Civil Society and Global Issues in Britain Mario Diani; Part II DIFFUSION AND SCALE SHIFT
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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. McCarthy5 The Impact of Transnational Protest on Social Movement Organizations: Mass Media and the Making of ATTAC Germany Felix Kolb; 6 Scale Shift in Transnational Contention Sidney Tarrow and Doug McAdam; Part III INTERNATIONALIZATION; 7 Patterns of Dynamic Multilevel Governance and the Insider-outsider Coalition Kathryn Sikkink
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8 Multiple Belongings, Tolerant Identities, and the Construction of ""Another Politics"" Between the European Social Forum and the Local Social Fora Donatella della Porta; 9 Social Movements beyond Borders: Understanding Two Eras of Transnational Activism W Lance Bennett; 10 Conclusion: ""Globalization,"" Complex Internationalism, and Transnational Contention Sidney Tarrow and Donatella della Porta; Appendix A: Organizational Consolidation; Appendix B: Repertoires of Action; References; Index; About the Contributors
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780742535879
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780742535862
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Transnational protest and global activism Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2005 ISBN 0742535878
Additional Edition:
ISBN 074253586X
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780742535879
Language:
English
Subjects:
Political Science
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Ethnology
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Sociology
Keywords:
Soziale Bewegung
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Globalisierung
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Internationale Kooperation
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Internationale Kooperation
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Soziale Bewegung
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Protestbewegung
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Demokratische Bewegung
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Globalisierung
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Bürgerrecht
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Aktivismus
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Internationale Kooperation
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Antiglobalisierungsbewegung
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Kritik
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Electronic books
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Aufsatzsammlung
Author information:
Della Porta, Donatella 1956-
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