Globalization from Below - Transnational Activists and Protest Networks

Klappentext 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 Below analyzes 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 Below places 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. Zusammenfassung Offers an in-depth look at the Genoa G8 summit and the European Social Forum! from the protesters' point of view. Presenting the systematic empirical research on the global justice movement! this work analyzes a movement from the viewpoints of the activists! organizers! and demonstrators themselves.

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• Authors: Massimiliano Andretta, Massimillano Andretta, Donatella della Porta, Donatella della Porta Della Porta, Lorenzo Mosca, Donatella Della Porta, Herbert Reiter, Herbert Reiter Reiter
• Publisher: University Of Minnesota Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.05.2006
• EAN: 9780816646432
• ISBN: 978-0-8166-4643-2
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 228 mm x 16 mm
• Series: Social Movements, Protest and Contention; Social Movements, Protest, and; Social Movements, Protest and Contention
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education