Observing Protest from a Place

Observing Protest from a Place / edited by Johanna Simeant, Marie-Emmanuelle Pommerolle and Isabelle Sommier.

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Social movements throughout the world have been central to history, politics, society, and culture. Observing Protest from a Place examines the impact of one such campaign, the global justice movement, as seen from the southern hemisphere. Drawing upon a collective survey from the 2011 World Social...

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TeilnehmendeR:
Sommier, Isabelle,
Pommerolle, Marie-Emmanuelle,
Simeant, Johanna,
Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press,, [2015]
©[2015]
Year of Publication:2015
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Protest and social movements.
Physical Description:1 online resource (271 pages) :; illustrations.
Notes:"Observing protest from a place: the World Social Forum in Dakar (2011) examines the impact of the global justice movement, as seen from the southern hemisphere. Drawing upon a collective survey from the 2011 World Social Forum in Dakar in Dakar, the essays explore a number of methodological issues pertaining to the study of transnational mobilizations"--Back cover.
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Table of Contents:
  • Front matter
  • Table of contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction / Siméant, Johanna / Pommerolle, Marie-Emmanuelle / Sommier, Isabelle
  • 1. What can quantitative surveys tell us about GJM activists? / Sommier, Isabelle
  • 2. Activist encounters at the World Social Forum. Nationalism and sovereignty in an internationalized event / Pommerolle, Marie-Emmanuelle
  • 3. Mapping a population and its taste in tactics / Siméant, Johanna / Hajji, Ilhame
  • 4. Women's issues and activists at the World Social Forum in Dakar / Castro, Julie
  • 5. Division of labor and partnerships in transnational social movements. Observations of North-South and South-South interactions at the World Social Forum / Baillot, Hélène / Bergamaschi, Isaline / Iori, Ruggero
  • 6. Making waste (in)visible at the Dakar World Social Forum. A Goffmanian perspective on a transnational alter-global gathering / Herrera, William / Judell, Alice / Paule, Clément
  • 7. Latin Americans at the World Social Forum in Dakar. The relationship between the alter-global movement and the institutional sphere / Bergamaschi, Isaline / Rodríguez, Tania Navarro / Nez, Héloïse
  • 8. Groups and organizations at the WSF. Polarities, intermediaries, and hierarchies in the alterglobal arena / Siméant, Johanna / Hajji, Ilhame
  • 9. Stepping back from your figures to figure out more / Vari-Lavoisier, Ilka
  • 10. Conclusion / Siméant, Johanna
  • Technical appendix: Surveying an international event through a multinational team
  • General data on participants
  • Appendix to Chapter 8 on groups and organizations: Clusters obtained by Ascending Hierarchical Clustering
  • Questionnaire for participants to the Dakar World Social Forum
  • Editor's biographies
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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