Transnational Protest and Global Activism

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

Publication date:

29 July 2004

Length of book:

304 pages

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

ISBN-13: 9780742535862

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 grass roots, 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.

Chapter 1 Transnational Processes and Social Activism: An Introduction
Part 2 I Transnationalism from the Inside
Chapter 3 A Limited Transnationalization? The British Environmental Movement
Chapter 4 Cities in the World: Local Civil Society and Global Issues in Britain
Part 5 II Diffusion and Scale Shift
Chapter 6 The Sequencing of Transnational and National Social Movement Mobilization: The Organizational Mobilization of the Global and U.S. Environmental Movements
Chapter 7 The Impact of Transnational Protest on Social Movement Organizations: Mass Media and the Making of ATTAC Germany
Chapter 8 Scale Shift in Transnational Contention
Part 9 III Internationalization
Chapter 10 Patterns of Dynamic Multilevel Governance and the Insider-Outsider Coalition
Chapter 11 Multiple Belongings, Tolerant Identities, and the Construction of "Another Politics": Between the European Social Forum and the Local Social Fora
Chapter 12 Social Movements beyond Borders: Understanding Two Eras of Transnational Activism
Chapter 13 Conclusion: "Globalization," Complex Internationalism, and Transnational Contention
Chapter 14 Appendix A: Organizational Consolidation
Chapter 15 Appendix B: Repertoires of Action

A very well concieved collection of articles on a still new and largely unexplored phenomenon, in spite of the fact that and increasing number of scholars have started to tackle it in recent years. Transnational Contention and Global Activism brings us a step further on the track set by them.