Observing Protest from a Place : The World Social Forum in Dakar (2011) /

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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 W...

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Other Authors: Sommier, Isabelle, Pommerolle, Marie-Emmanuelle, Simeant, Johanna
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2015]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Social movements > International cooperation.
Protest movements.
Anti-globalization movement.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Reference.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > National.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Essays.
Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
Politics and government.
Political activism.
Demonstrations and protest movements.
Altermondialisme > Afrique.
Mouvements sociaux > Cooperation internationale.
Contestation.
Anti-globalization movement > Africa.
Africa.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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 Forum2.1 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 event3.4 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 movements5.1 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 politics7.2 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

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