Kids Library Home

Welcome to the Kids' Library!

Search for books, movies, music, magazines, and more.

     
Available items only
Print Material

Title Observing protest from a place : the World Social Forum in Dakar (2011) / edited by Johanna Siméant, Marie-Emanuelle Pommerolle, Isabelle Sommier.

Imprint Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2015]

Copies

Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe JSTOR Open Ebooks  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description 1 online resource
text txt rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
data file
Series Protest and social movements
Protest and social movements.
Summary 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 Forum in Dakar, the contributions explore a number of vital issues, including the methodological problems of studying international activist gatherings and how scholars can overcome those challenges. By demonstrating the importance of the global justice movement and the role of non-governmental organizations for participants in the southern hemisphere, this volume is an important addition to the literature on community action
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-264) and indexes.
Language English.
Access Open Access EbpS
Subject World Social Forum (11th : 2011 : Dakar, Senegal)
World Social Forum.
World Social Forum
Protest movements.
Social movements -- International cooperation.
Anti-globalization movement -- Africa.
Contestation.
Mouvements sociaux -- Coopération internationale.
Altermondialisme -- Afrique.
Demonstrations and protest movements.
Political activism.
Politics and government.
Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference.
Anti-globalization movement
Protest movements
Social movements -- International cooperation
Africa https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJkHrMyfHC67yqRTycbrv3
Indexed Term Global Justice Movement
International division of Labor Methodology
Multiple correspondence analysis (MCA)
Transnational Social Movements
Added Author Siméant, Johanna.
Pommerolle, Marie-Emmanuelle.
Sommier, Isabelle.
In: Books at JSTOR: Open Access JSTOR
OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) OAPEN
Other Form: Print version: 9789089647801 9089647805 (OCoLC)903000866
ISBN 9789048525805 (electronic bk.)
9048525802 (electronic bk.)
9789089647801
9089647805
Standard No. 10.26530/OAPEN_611223 doi
AU@ 000059224320
AU@ 000060080530
CHNEW 000892928
CHNEW 001039505
CHVBK 374520852
CHVBK 483093076
DEBBG BV044058505
DEBSZ 484751093
GBVCP 865795940
GBVCP 869971719
NZ1 16241595

 
    
Available items only