Transnational Protest and Global Activism

by Della Porta, Donatella; Tarrow, Sidney; Bennett, W Lance; Porta, Donatella Della; Diani, Mario; Johnson, Erik; Kolb, Felix; McAdam, Doug; McCarthy, John D.; Rootes, Christopher; Sikkink, Kathryn

• ISBN13: 9780742535862
• ISBN10: 074253586X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-07-29
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

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 cycle of protest developing around the globe.

Author Biography

W. Lance Bennett is professor of political science and Ruddick C. Lawrence Professor of Communication at the University of Washington Donatella della Porta is professor of sociology at the European University Institute, Florence Mario Diani is professor of sociology at the University of Trento and honorary research professor at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow Erik Johnson is a doctoral student in sociology at The Pennsylvania State University Felix Kolb is a PhD candidate at the Free University of Berlin Doug McAdam is professor of sociology at Stanford University John D. McCarthy is professor of sociology and at The Pennsylvania State University Christopher Rootes is reader in political sociology and environmental politics at the University of Kent at Canterbury Kathryn Sikkink is the Arleen C. Carlson Professor of Political Science at the University of Minnesota Sidney Tarrow is the Maxwell M. Upson Professor of Government and professor of sociology at Cornell University

Table of Contents

List of Figures	ix
List of Tables	xi
Preface	xiii
Transnational Processes and Social Activism: An Introduction	1	(20)
Donatella della Porta
Sidney Tarrow
Part I TRANSNATIONALISM FROM THE INSIDE
A Limited Transnationalization? The British Environmental Movement	21	(24)
Christopher Rootes
Cities in the World: Local Civil Society and Global Issues in Britain	45	(26)
Mario Diani
Part II DIFFUSION AND SCALE SHIFT
The Sequencing of Transnational and National Social Movement Mobilization: The Organizational Mobilization of the Global and U.S. Environmental Movements	71	(24)
Erik Johnson
John D. McCarthy
The Impact of Transnational Protest on Social Movement Organizations: Mass Media and the Making of ATTAC Germany	95	(26)
Felix Kolb
Scale Shift in Transnational Contention	121	(30)
Sidney Tarrow
Doug McAdam
Part III INTERNATIONALIZATION
Patterns of Dynamic Multilevel Governance and the Insider--Outsider Coalition	151	(24)
Kathryn Sikkin
Multiple Belongings, Tolerant Identities, and the Construction of ``Another Politics'': Between the European Social Forum and the Local Social Fora	175	(28)
Donatella della Porta
Social Movements beyond Borders: Understanding Two Eras of Transnational Activism	203	(24)
W. Lance Bennett
Conclusion: ``Globalization,'' Complex Internationalism, and Transnational Contention	227	(20)
Sidney Tarrow
Donatella della Porta
Appendix A: Organizational Consolidation	247	(1)
Appendix B: Repertoires of Action	248	(3)
References	251	(24)
Index	275	(10)
About the Contributors	285