Transnational Protest and Global Activism

by Donatella della Porta and Sidney Tarrow

Book Overview

In this book, two titans of social movement scholarship bring together the best current research on the nexus between the local and the global in translating the global justice movement into action at the grassroots, and vice versa. Using recent cases of transnational contention_from the European Social Forum in Florence to the Argentinean human rights movement and British environmentalists, from movement networks in Bristol and Glasgow to the Zapatistas_the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742535878
• ISBN13: 9780742535879
• Release Date: July 2004
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 287 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 9.0"