VOICES OF THE VALLEY, VOICES OF THE STRAITS
How Protest Creates Communities
Donatella della Porta and Gianni Piazza
216 pages, bibliog., appendix, index
ISBN 978-1-84545-515-6 Hb $35.00/£17.50 Published (Autumn 2008)
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Protest campaigns against large-scale public works usually take place
within a local context. However, since the 1990s new forms of protest
have been emerging. This book analyses two cases from Italy that
illustrate this development: the environmentalist protest campaigns
against the TAV (the building of a new high-speed railway in Val de
Susa, close to the border with France), and the construction of the
Bridge on the Messina Straits (between Calabria and Sicily). Such
mobilizations emerge from local conflicts but develop as part of a
global justice movement, often resulting in the production of new
identities. They are promoted through multiple networks of different
social and political groups, that share common claims and adopt various
forms of protest action. It is during the protest campaigns that a
sense of community is created.
Donatella Della Porta is Professor of Sociology at the European
University Institute. Her recent publications include Globalization
from Below(University of Minnesota Press, 2006); Quale Europa?
Europeizzazione, identità e conflitti (Il Mulino, 2006); Social
Movements: an Introduction (2nd edition, Blackwell, 2006) and
Transnational Protest and Global Activism (Rowman and Littlefield,
2005).
Gianni Piazza is researcher and lecturer of Political Science and
Public Policy Analysis at the University of Catania. He is the author
of La città degli affari (1994), Sindaci e politiche in Sicilia (1998)
and the co-author of Politiche e partecipazione (2004) and Protests and
Arguments: The Citizens’ Committees’ Campaigns Against Traffic in Four
Italian Cities (2005).
Series: Volume 1, Protest, Culture & Society
Subject: Politics & Economics, Sociology
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