Transnational Protest and Global Activism |
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| Editor:
| Della Porta, Donatella
Tarrow, Sidney |
| Contribution by:
| Bennett, W. Lance
Porta, Donatella Della
Diani, Mario
Johnson, Erik
Kolb, Felix
McAdam, Doug
McCarthy, John D.
Rootes, Christopher
Sikkink, Kathryn |
| Series title: | People, Passions, and Power: Social Movements, Interest Organizations, and the P Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-7425-3587-9 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 2004 |
| Publisher: | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $71.00 |
Book Description:
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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...
More DescriptionIn 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.