Observing protest from a place the World Social Forum in Dakar (2011)
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 W...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press
[2015]
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| Colección: | JSTOR Open Access monographs.
Protest and social movements. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b38136235*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- ""Cover""; ""Table of contents""; "" Acknowledgements""; "" Introduction""; ""1. Methodological reasons for observing a WSF in Africa""; ""2. The division of labor and the paradoxes of activist internationalization""; ""3. Contexts of international collective action""; ""1. What can quantitative surveys tell us about GJM activists?""; ""1.1 Data and methods""; ""1.2 The seemingly convergent portrait of the alter-global activist""; ""1.3 The evolution of the multi-organizational field of alter-globalism: a delicate comparison""; ""1.4 Conclusion""
- ""2. Activist encounters at the World Social Forum""""2.1 Internationalized nationalism and sovereignty""; ""2.2 The misunderstanding that produces nationalist commitments""; ""2.3 Conclusion""; ""3. Mapping a population and its taste in tactics""; ""3.1 What do we know about how familiar alter-globalization activists are with protest practices?""; ""3.2 Familiarity with protest practices among the respondents at the Dakar WSF""
- ""3.3 Using Multiple Correspondence Analysis (MCA) and Ascending Hierarchical Clustering to study populations "in a situation of militancy" in an international event""""3.4 Ascending Hierarchical Clustering, composition of groups of participants, and "bringing real people back in" through paragons""; ""3.5 Conclusion""; ""4. Women's issues and activists at the World Social Forum in Dakar""; ""4.1 Transnational, but not only: the actors of women's issues in Dakar""; ""4.2 Strategies, tensions, and blind spots around women's issues in Dakar""
- ""5. Division of labor and partnerships in transnational social movements""""5.1 Acting "on behalf of" or acting "with." Methods of North-South cooperation at the Forum""; ""5.2 South-South interactions at the WSF: another kind of cooperation?""; ""6. Making waste (in)visible at the Dakar World Social Forum""; ""6.1 Waste management as stage-setting for a transnational alter-global event""; ""6.2 Audiences""; ""6.3 Backstage tactics and the boundaries of an institutionalized activist space""; ""7. Latin Americans at the World Social Forum in Dakar""
- ""7.1 The singularity of the Latin Americans' relationship to politics""""7.2 Explaining Latin American singularity: a specific militant profile""; ""7.3 Conclusion""; ""8. Groups and organizations at the WSF""; ""8.1 Between material support of mobilization and ideological indicators: a forum portrait through organizations""; ""8.2 Organizational space and social space""; ""8.3 Understanding the affinities between organizations""; ""9. Stepping back from your figures to figure out more""; ""9.1 Why and how to inquire about "no-replies"""; ""9.2 A panorama of "no-replies" in the WSF survey""
