Globalization from below [[electronic resource] ] : transnational activists and protest networks / / Donatella della Porta ... [et. al.]

• Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, Minn., : University of Minnesota Press; Bristol, : University Presses Marketing [distributor], 2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (317 p.)
• Disciplina: 303.484
• Soggetto topico: Anti-globalization movement; Globalization
• Altri autori: Della PortaDonatella <1956->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Globalization and social movements -- The development of a global movement: network strategies, democracy, participation -- Master frame, activists' ideas, and collective identity -- Global-net for global movements? a network of networks for a movement of movements -- Media-conscious and nonviolent? protest repertoires -- Transnational protest and public order -- Politics, antipolitics, and other politics: democracy and the movement for globalization from below -- The global movement and democracy.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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. They examine the interactions between challengers and elites, and discuss how new models of activism fit into current social movement work.
• Titolo autorizzato: Globalization from below
• ISBN: 0-8166-9763-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910784112303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Social movements, protest, and contention ; ; v. 26.