Observing Protest from a Place

Johanna Siméant is professor of political science at the University Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne (CESSP), and has published La cause des sans-papiers (1998), Le travail humanitaire (2002), La grève de la faim (2009), Contester au Mali (2014) and edited books. Marie-Emmanuelle Pommerolle is assistant professor of political science at Paris 1 Sorbonne University. She is currently director of the French Institute of Research in Africa (IFRA) in Nairobi (Kenya). Isabelle Sommier is Full Professor of Political Sociology at Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne University, former director of the CRPS (Centre de recherches politiques de la Sorbonne) and currently Deputy Director of the CESSP (Centre européen de sociologie et de science politique, a fusion between CRPS and CSE Bourdieu institute). She has published on the theory of social movements, political violence, radicalization and terrorism.

• Acknowledgements Introduction - Johanna Siméant, Marie-Emmanuelle Pommerolle and Isabelle Sommier What can quantitative surveys tell us about GJM activists? - Isabelle Sommier Activist encounters at the World Social Forum - Marie-Emmanuelle Pommerolle Mapping a population and its taste in tactics - Johanna Siméant, with Ilhame Hajji Women’s issues and activists at the World Social Forum in Dakar - Julie Castro Division of labor and partnerships in transnational social movements - Hélène Baillot, Isaline Bergamaschi and Ruggero Iori Making waste (in)visible at the Dakar World Social Forum - William Herrera, Alice Judell and Clément Paule Latin Americans at the World Social Forum in Dakar - Isaline Bergamaschi, Tania Navarro Rodríguez and Héloïse Nez Groups and organizations at the WSF - Johanna Siméant, with Ilhame Hajji Stepping back from your figures to figure out more - Ilka Vari-Lavoisier Conclusion - Johanna Siméant Technical appendix: Surveying an international event through a multinational team General data on participants Appendix to Chapter 8 on groups and organizations: Clusters obtained by Ascending Hierarchical Clustering Questionnaire for participants to the Dakar World Social Forum Editors' Biographies Bibliography Index