Globalization from Below

by Della Porta, Donatella

• ISBN13: 9780816646432
• ISBN10: 0816646430
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-04-02
• Publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr

Summary

When violence broke out at the demonstrations surrounding the 2001 G8 summit in Genoa, Italy, the authors of this book were there. The protests proved to be a critical moment in the global justice movement. Presenting the first systematic empirical research on the global justice movement,Globalization from Belowanalyzes 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. A year later, they surveyed 2,400 activists at the European Social Forum in Florence. To understand how this cycle of global protest emerged, they examine the interactions between challengers and elites, and discuss how these new models of activism fit into current social movement work. Globalization from Belowplaces the protests within larger debates, revealing and investigating the forces that led to a clash between demonstrators and the Italian government, which responded with violence. Donatella della Porta is professor of political science; Massimiliano Andretta is a researcher in political science and sociology; Lorenzo Mosca is a researcher in information and communication technologies; Herbert Reiter is a researcher in history, all at the European University Institute.

Author Biography

Donatella della Porta is professor of political science Massimiliano Andretta is a researcher in political science and sociology Lorenzo Mosca is a researcher in information and communication technologies Herbert Reiter is a researcher in history, all at the European University Institute

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Abbreviations	xi
Globalization and Social Movements	1	(26)
The Development of a Global Movement: Network Strategies, Democracy, Participation	27	(34)
Master Frame, Activists' Ideas, and Collective Identity	61	(31)
Global-Net for Global Movements? A Network of Networks for a Movement of Movements	92	(26)
Media-Conscious and Nonviolent? Protest Repertoires	118	(32)
Transnational Protest and Public Order	150	(46)
Politics, Antipolitics, and Other Politics: Democracy and the Movement for Globalization from Below	196	(36)
The Global Movement and Democracy	232	(17)
Notes	249	(18)
Bibliography	267	(28)
Index	295