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Globalization from Below : Transnational Activists and Protest Networks.

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Porta, Donatella della
Other Authors: Andretta, Massimiliano, Mosca, Lorenzo
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2006.
Series:Social movements, protest, and contention.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; 1. Globalization and Social Movements; 2. The Development of a Global Movement: Network Strategies, Democracy, Participation; 3. Master Frame, Activists' Ideas, and Collective Identity; 4. Global-Net for Global Movements? A Network of Networks for a Movement of Movements; 5. Media-Conscious and Nonviolent? Protest Repertoires; 6. Transnational Protest and Public Order; 7. Politics, Antipolitics, and Other Politics: Democracy and the Movement for Globalization from Below; 8. The Global Movement and Democracy; Notes; Bibliography; Index.