Transnational Protest and Global Activism

Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Here! 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.

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• Authors: Donatella Tarrow Della Porta, DELLA PORTA DONATELLA TARROW SID
• Assisted by: Donatella Della Porta (Editor), Sidney Tarrow (Editor), Sidney G. Tarrow (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.09.2004
• EAN: 9780742535862
• ISBN: 978-0-7425-3586-2
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: People, Passions, and Power: Social Movements, Interest Organizations and the Political Process; People, Passions, and Power: Social Movements, Interest Organizations, and the P; People, Passions, and Power: Social Movements, Interest Organizations, and the P; People, Passions, and Power: S
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Globalisierung, Politischer Aktivismus