Synopses & Reviews
Analyzing a broad range of movements, this volume, now available in paperback, reflects on the many challenges that globalization presents for transnational activisim. It explores how international government organizations might offer political opportunities and constraints for social movements, addressing both domestic and global problems
Review
'A classic work in the field. In many ways, the field starts here.'
- Lance Bennett, Director, Center for Communication & Civic Engagement, University of Washington, Seattle USA
'This book was a pioneer in developing transnational activism as a new research agenda. It is now a classic. At its 10th anniversary it continues to be a rich and indispensable source of inspiration for scholars and students in the field.'
- Thomas Olesen, Department of Political Science, University of Aarhus, Denmark
Synopsis
The growing interdependence on a global scale which characterizes the human condition at the turn of the century constitutes a challenge for both the mobilization of social movements and social movement theory. The present volume makes an attempt to adjust the perspective of the political process approach to a world in which political opportunities, mobilizing structures, framing processes and collective action of social movements are no longer confined to national political contexts.
About the Author
HANSPETER KRIESI holds the Chair in Comparative Politics at the Department of Political Science of the University of Zurich, Switzerland. He is a specialist of social movements, but his wide ranging research interests also include the study of direct democracy, political parties and interest groups, public opinion, the public sphere and the media. He is co-editor (with David Snow and Sarah Soule) of
The Blackwell Companion to Social Movements and co-author of
Transformation of West European Politics in an Age of Globalization. He is now the director of a Swiss national research programme on the 'Challenges to democracy in the 21st century'.
DONATELLA DELLA PORTA is Professor of Sociology in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute, Italy. Among her recent publications are: Approaches and Methodologies in the Social Sciences (with Michael Keating); Voices of the Valley, Voices of the Straits (with Gianni Piazza); The Global Justice Movement;Globalization from Below (with Massimiliano Andretta, Lorenzo Mosca and Herbert Reiter); The Policing of Transnational Protest.
DIETER RUCHT is Professor of Sociology and co-director of the research group Civil Society, Citizenship and Political Mobilization in Europe at the Social Science Research Center Berlin, Germany. His research interests include political participation, social movements, political protest, and public discourse. Among his recent books in English are: Womens Movements Facing the Reconfigured State (co-edited) and Cyberprotest: New media, Citizens and Social Movements (co-edited). Rucht is involved in several research projects, among these Democracy in Europe and the Mobilization of Society and "Transnational Struggles for Recognition".
Table of Contents
Preface to new edition * Social Movements in a Globalizing World: an Introduction;
D.della Porta&
H.Kriesi * PART I: NATIONAL MOBILIZATION WITHIN A GLOBALIZING WORLD
Alternative Types of Cross-national Diffusion in the Social Movement Arena--D.A.Snow& R.D.Benford * The Gendering of Abortion Discourse: Assessing Global Feminist Influence in the United States and Germany--M.Marx Ferree& W.A.Gamson * A Comparison of Protests against the Gulf War in Germany, France and the Netherlands--R.Koopmans * The Diffusion and Adoption of Public Order Management Systems--J.D.McCarthy, C.McPhail& J.Crist * PART II: MOBILIZATION BEYOND THE NATION-STATE * On the Relationship of Political Opportunities to the Form of Collective Action: The Case of the European Union--G.Marks& D.McAdam * The Europeanization of Movements? Contentions Politics and the European Union, October 1983 - March 1995; D.Imig &--S.Tarrow * Injustice and Adversarial Frames in a Supranational Political Context: Farmer's Protest in the Netherlands and Spain--B.Kandermans, M. de Weerd, J-M.Sabucedo& M.Costa * Supranational Political Opportunities as a Channel of Globalization of Political Conflicts. The Case of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples--F.Passy *
Global Politics and Transnational Social Movements Strategies: The Transnational Campaign Against International Trade in Toxic Wastes--J.Smith * International Campaigns in Context: Collective Action Between the Local and the Global--C.Lahusen * The Transnationalization of Social Movements: Trends, Causes, Problems--D.Rucht * Bibliography * Index