Voices of the Valley, Voices of the Straits

How Protest Creates Communities

Inbunden, Engelska, 2008

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Protest campaigns against large-scale public works usually take place within a local context. However, since the 1990s new forms of protest have been emerging. This book analyses two cases from Italy that illustrate this development: the environmentalist protest campaigns against the TAV (the building of a new high-speed railway in Val de Susa, close to the border with France), and the construction of the Bridge on the Messina Straits (between Calabria and Sicily). Such mobilizations emerge from local conflicts but develop as part of a global justice movement, often resulting in the production of new identities. They are promoted through multiple networks of different social and political groups, that share common claims and adopt various forms of protest action. It is during the protest campaigns that a sense of community is created.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2008-08-01
Mått152 x 229 x 13 mm
Vikt318 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieProtest, Culture & Society
Antal sidor216
FörlagBerghahn Books
ISBN9781845455156

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Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik
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AcknowledgmentsChapter 1. Local Conflict between Interest and Identity: an Introduction1. Nimbyism or Social Movements? How to Explain Protest Campaigns1.1. The Local Dimension1.2. Social Movements and Environmentalism1.3. Resources and Mobilisation1.4. The Political Dimension of the Conflict1.5. Our Research2. Campaigns and Networks: Two Periodisations2.1. The Protest Campaign in Val di Susa2.2. The No Bridge CampaignChapter 2. Networks and Cross-fertilisation: the Resources of the Protest1. Networks and Cross-fertilisation: an Introduction2. The Role of Local Institutions3. The Role of Environmental Associations4. The Role of Citizens' Committees and the Organisation from Below5. Squatted Social Centres6. Trade Unions and Workers7. Deciding in the Network8. Concluding RemarksChapter 3. Protest and Identity: the Symbolic Construction of Conflict1. Protest and Identity: an Introduction2. Framing the Identity: Between Localism and Community3. Diagnosis and Prognosis: What Progress?4. Motivational Frames: the Rights of the Community, Mobilisation of the People5. Concluding RemarksChapter 4. In Movement: the Repertoires of the Protest1. Repertoires of Protest: an Introduction2. The Construction of Knowledge3. Protests and the Logic of Numbers4. Direct Action and Solidarity5. Protest as an Arena: Site Occupations and Camps6. Multiform Action7. Protest and Communication8. Concluding RemarksChapter 5: Voices of the Valley, Voices of the Straits: a ConclusionBibliographyIndex

"The book is a welcome addition to the existing body of work on social and protest movements...[It] offers fresh and original insights into protest movements and its arguments are well made and convincing." · Modern Italy“The insights of this study make for an interesting book that leads us further into the understanding of contemporary conflicts.” · South European Society and Politics