During the last two decades Europe has experienced a rise in transnational contention. Citizens are crossing borders to advance alternative visions of Europe. They spread protest concepts and tactics and explore new ways of organizing dissent. Far from being a recent phenomenon, transnational protest is obviously more salient in a world of international corporations and global political interaction, compounded by electronic communication and cheap travel. The transnational condition permeates all aspects of protest organization and dynamics – from individual biographies to activist networks to cycles of contention. The contributors offer insight into this multifaceted condition by combining rich empirical evidence with reflections on the problems of transnational research.
Cuprins
Chapter 1. The Transnational Condition. An Introduction
Simon Teune
MICRO LEVEL: TRANSNATIONAL ACTIVISTS AND ORGANIZATIONS
Chapter 2. Transnational versus National Activism. A Systematic Comparison of ‘Transnationalists’ and ‘Nationalists’ Participating in the 2006 European and Belgian Social Forums
Stefaan Walgrave and Jeroen van Laer
Chapter 3. How do Activists Experience Transnational Protest Events? The Case of Young Global Justice Activists from Germany and France
Ariane Jossin
MESO LEVEL: TRANSNATIONAL NETWORKS, TRANSNATIONAL PUBLIC SPHERES
Chapter 4. Public Spheres within Movements: Challenging the (Re)search for a European Public Sphere
Christoph Haug
Chapter 5. Exploring Cosmopolitan and Critical Europeanist Discourses in the ESF Process as a Transnational Public Space
Nicole Doerr
MACRO LEVEL: PROTEST AND SOCIETAL SYSTEMS
Chapter 6. Reinventing Europe. Social Movement Activists as Critical Europeanists
Donatella della Porta
Chapter 7. Porous Publics and Transnational Mobilization
Thomas Olesen
Chapter 8. Thinking about Transnational Diffusion and Cycles of Protest: The 1996-2005 Wave of Democratization in Eastern Europe
Tsveta Petrova
METHODOLOGY AND THEORY OF TRANSNATIONAL SOCIAL MOVEMENT RESEARCH
Chapter 9. National Constraints and Scale Shift in Current Transnational Activism
Marco Giugni, Marko Bandler, and Nina Eggert
Chapter 10. Individual Surveys in Rallies (INSURA). A New Tool for Exploring Transnational Activism?
Olivier Fillieule and Philippe Blanchard
Chapter 11. Prisoners of our Concepts: Liberating the Study of Social Movements
Jackie Smith and Rachel Kutz-Flamenbau
Bibliography
Index
Despre autor
Simon Teune works at the Social Science Research Center, Berlin. His research interests are social movements, protest and culture. As a fellow of the Hans-Böckler-Stiftung he is preparing a Ph.D. dissertation that focuses on the communication strategies of global justice groups during the anti-G8 protests in Germany 2007. He is co-editor of Nur Clowns und Chaoten?, which explores the media event of the Heiligendamm protests (Campus, 2008).
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