[movimenti.bicocca] Globalization from Below. Transnational …

Globalization from Below

Transnational Activists and Protest Networks

Donatella della Porta, Massimiliano Andretta, Lorenzo Mosca and
Herbert Reiter


An in-depth look at the Genoa G8 summit and the European Social
Forum, from the protesters’ point of view.

When violence broke out at the demonstrations surrounding the 2001 G8
summit in Genoa, Italy, the authors of this book were there. The
protests proved to be a critical moment in the global justice movement.

Presenting the first systematic empirical research on the global
justice movement, Globalization from Below analyzes a movement from
the viewpoints of the activists, organizers, and demonstrators
themselves. The authors traveled to Genoa with anti-G8 protesters and
collected data from more than 800 participants. A year later, they
surveyed 2,400 activists at the European Social Forum in Florence. To
understand how this cycle of global protest emerged, they examine the
interactions between challengers and elites, and discuss how these
new models of activism fit into current social movement work.

Globalization from Below places the protests within larger debates,
revealing and investigating the forces that led to a clash between
demonstrators and the Italian government, which responded with violence.

Donatella della Porta is professor of political science and co-author
of Policing Protest; Massimiliano Andretta is a researcher in
political science and sociology; Lorenzo Mosca is a researcher in
political science and sociology; Herbert Reiter is a researcher in
history, all at the European University Institute.

336 pages | 10 line art, 26 tables | 5 7⁄8 x 9 | 2006
Social Movements, Protest, and Contention Series, volume 26



TABLE OF CONTENTS

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations

1. Globalization and Social Movements
2. The Development of a Global Movement: Network Strategies,
Democracy, Participation
3. Master Frame, Activists’ Ideas, and Collective Identity
4. Global-Net for Global Movements? A Network of Networks for a
Movement of Movements
5. Media-Conscious and Nonviolent? Protest Repertoires
6. Transnational Protest and Public Order
7. Politics, Antipolitics, and Other Politics: Democracy and the
Movement for Globalization from Below
8. The Global Movement and Democracy

Notes
Bibliography
Index