Transnational Protest and Global Activism

Donatella della Porta is professor of sociology at the European University Institute, Florence. Sidney Tarrow is the Maxwell M. Upson Professor of Government and professor of sociology at Cornell University.

• Chapter 1 Transnational Processes and Social Activism: An IntroductionPart 2 I Transnationalism from the InsideChapter 3 A Limited Transnationalization? The British Environmental MovementChapter 4 Cities in the World: Local Civil Society and Global Issues in BritainPart 5 II Diffusion and Scale ShiftChapter 6 The Sequencing of Transnational and National Social Movement Mobilization: The Organizational Mobilization of the Global and U.S. Environmental MovementsChapter 7 The Impact of Transnational Protest on Social Movement Organizations: Mass Media and the Making of ATTAC GermanyChapter 8 Scale Shift in Transnational ContentionPart 9 III InternationalizationChapter 10 Patterns of Dynamic Multilevel Governance and the Insider-Outsider CoalitionChapter 11 Multiple Belongings, Tolerant Identities, and the Construction of "Another Politics": Between the European Social Forum and the Local Social ForaChapter 12 Social Movements beyond Borders: Understanding Two Eras of Transnational ActivismChapter 13 Conclusion: "Globalization," Complex Internationalism, and Transnational ContentionChapter 14 Appendix A: Organizational ConsolidationChapter 15 Appendix B: Repertoires of Action

A very well concieved collection of articles on a still new and largely unexplored phenomenon, in spite of the fact that and increasing number of scholars have started to tackle it in recent years. Transnational Contention and Global Activism brings us a step further on the track set by them.