Observing protest from a place : the World Social Forum in Dakar (2011) /

Observing protest from a place : the World Social Forum in Dakar (2011) /

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Imprint:Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2015]
Description:1 online resource
Language:English
Series:Protest and social movements
Protest and social movements.
Subject:
World Social Forum -- (11th : -- 2011 : -- Dakar, Senegal)
World Social Forum.
World Social Forum.
Protest movements.
Social movements -- International cooperation.
Anti-globalization movement -- Africa.
Anti-globalization movement.
Protest movements.
Social movements -- International cooperation.
Africa.
Electronic books.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11247782
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Other authors / contributors:Siméant, Johanna.
Pommerolle, Marie-Emmanuelle.
Sommier, Isabelle.
ISBN:9789048525805
9048525802
9789089647801
9089647805
Digital file characteristics:data file
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-264) and indexes.
Open Access
English.
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.
Other form:Print version: 9789089647801 9089647805
Standard no.:10.26530/OAPEN_611223
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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