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Social Movements in a Globalising World

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  • © 1999

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Editors:
  1. Donatella Porta

    1. University of Florence, Florence, Italy

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  2. Hanspeter Kriesi

    1. University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

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  3. Dieter Rucht

    1. University of Kent, Canterbury, UK

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. National Mobilization within a Globalizing World

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Social Movements in a Globalizing World: an Introduction

      • Donatella della Porta, Hanspeter Kriesi
      Pages 3-22

    3. Alternative Types of Cross-national Diffusion in the Social Movement Arena

      • David A. Snow, Robert D. Benford
      Pages 23-39

    4. The Gendering of Abortion Discourse: Assessing Global Feminist Influence in the United States and Germany

      • Myra Marx Ferree, William A. Gamson
      Pages 40-56

    5. Globalization or Still National Politics? A Comparison of Protests against the Gulf War in Germany, France, and the Netherlands

      • Ruud Koopmans
      Pages 57-70

    6. The Diffusion and Adoption of Public Order Management Systems

      • John D. McCarthy, Clark McPhail, John Crist
      Pages 71-94

  3. Mobilization beyond the Nation-State

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 95-95
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    2. On the Relationship of Political Opportunities to the Form of Collective Action: the Case of the European Union

      • Gary Marks, Doug McAdam
      Pages 97-111

    3. The Europeanization of Movements? A New Approach to Transnational Contention

      • Doug Imig, Sidney Tarrow
      Pages 112-133

    4. Injustice and Adversarial Frames in a Supranational Political Context: Farmers’ Protest in the Netherlands and Spain

      • Bert Klandermans, Marga de Weerd, Jose-Manuel Sabucedo, Maria Costa
      Pages 134-147

    5. Supranational Political Opportunities as a Channel of Globalization of Political Conflicts. The Case of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

      • Florence Passy
      Pages 148-169

    6. Global Politics and Transnational Social Movement Strategies: the Transnational Campaign against International Trade in Toxic Wastes

      • Jackie Smith
      Pages 170-188

    7. International Campaigns in Context: Collective Action between the Local and the Global

      • Christian Lahusen
      Pages 189-205

    8. The Transnationalization of Social Movements: Trends, Causes, Problems

      • Dieter Rucht
      Pages 206-222

  4. Back Matter

    Pages 223-256
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About this book

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.

Reviews

'A classic work in the field. In many ways, the field starts here.' - Lance Bennett, Director, Centre 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

'This invaluable collection of groundbreaking scholarship illustrates the vital and diverse roles social movements and NGOs have come to play in today's world. The volume's insightful contributions by leading academics in the field represent an extraordinary sample of theoretical and thematic approaches to the topic that has been widely influential for researchers from numerous disciplines ever since its first publication. This book should be on the required reading list of scholars, students and activists alike.'

- Dr. Martin A. Klimke, www.maklimke.com

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Florence, Florence, Italy

    Donatella Porta

  • University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

    Hanspeter Kriesi

  • University of Kent, Canterbury, UK

    Dieter Rucht

About the editors

ROBERT D. BENFORD Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA MYRA MARX FERREE Professor of Sociology, University of Connecticut, USA WILLIAM A. GAMSON Professor of Sociology, Boston College, USA and Co-director of the Media Research and Action Project (MRAP) DOUG IMIG Member of the Department of Political Science, University of Memphis, USA and Visiting Scholar, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University BERT KLANDERMANS Professor in Applied Social Psychology, Free University, Amsterdam, the Netherlands RUUD KOOPMANS Senior Researcher, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin fuer Sozialforschung (WZB) CHRISTIAN LAHUSEN Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Otto-Friedrich-University of Bamberg, Germany GARY MARKS Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for European Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA DOUG MCADAM Professor of Sociology, University of Arizona, USA JOHN D. MCCARTHY Professor of Sociology, Pennsylvania State University, USA CLARK MCPHAIL Professor of Sociology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA FLORENCE PASSY Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Geneva, Switzerland JACKIE SMITH Assistant Professor of Sociology, State University of New York, Stony Brook, USA DAVID A. SNOW Professor of Sociology, University of Arizona, USA SIDNEY TARROW Maxwell M. Upson Professor of Government, Cornell University, USA MARGA DE WEERD Phd student of applied social psychology, Free University, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

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