Social Movements in a Globalizing World

by Della Porta, Donatella; Kriesi, Hanspeter; Rucht, Dieter

• ISBN13: 9780312219383
• ISBN10: 0312219385
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-04-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

The growing interdependence on a global scale which characterizes the human condition at the turn of the century constitutes a challenge for both the mobilization of social movements and social movement theory. This volume makes an attempt to adjust the perspective of the "political process" approach to a world in which political opportunities, mobilizing structures, framing processes and collective action of social movements are no longer confined to national political contexts.

Author Biography

Donatella della Porta is Professor of Political Science at the University of Florence.

Hanspeter Kriesi is Professor of Political Science at the University of Geneva.

Dieter Rucht is Professor of Sociology at the University of Kent.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	vii
List of Tables	viii
Preface	ix
Notes on the Contributors	xi
National Mobilization within a Globalizing World
Social Movements in a Globalizing World: an Introduction	3	(20)
Donatella della Porta
Hanspeter Kriesi
Alternative Types of Cross-national Diffusion in the Social Movement Arena	23	(17)
David A. Snow
Robert D. Benford
The Gendering of Abortion Discourse: Assessing Global Feminist Influence in the United States and Germany	40	(17)
Myra Marx Ferree
William A. Gamson
A Comparison of Protests against the Gulf War in Germany, France and the Netherlands	57	(14)
Ruud Koopmans
The Diffusion and Adoption of Public Order Management Systems	71	(26)
John D. McCarthy
Clark McPhail
John Crist
Mobilization beyond the Nation-State
On the Relationship of Political Opportunities to the Form of Collective Action: The Case of the European Union	97	(15)
Gary Marks
Doug McAdam
The Europeanization of Movements? A New Approach to Transnational Contention	112	(22)
Doug Imig
Sidney Tarrow
Injustice and Adversarial Frames in a Supranational Political Context: Farmers' Protest in the Netherlands and Spain	134	(14)
Bert Klandermans
Marga de Weerd
Jose-Manuel Sabucedo
Maria Costa
Supranational Political Opportunities as a Channel of Globalization of Political Conflicts. The Case of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples	148	(22)
Florence Passy
Global Politics and Transnational Social Movements Strategies: The Transnational compaign against International Trade in Toxic Wastes	170	(19)
Jackie Smith
International Campaigns in context: Collective Action between the Local and the Global	189	(17)
Christian Lahusen
The Transnationalization of Social Movements: Trends, Causes, Problems	206	(17)
Dieter Rucht
Bibliography	223	(22)
Index	245