scholarly journals Insiders, thresholders, and outsiders in west European global justice networks: network positions and modes of coordination

2013 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-189 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clare Saunders
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
Global Justice ◽  
Work Organizations ◽  
Global Justice Movement ◽  
Future Studies ◽  
Formal Organizations ◽  
Methodological Considerations

Since the new millennium, scholars have acclaimed a vigorous global justice movement (GJM). Many accounts have stressed the tolerant identities of those involved in this movement, and/or the movement's horizontal decision-making structure. Consequently, formal organizations are often excluded from analysis, precluding the chance to assess systematically whether they are involved in social movement modes of coordination. The article uses deductive block modelling and inferential statistics on survey data of a broad sample of 208 western European global justice organizations to uncover their modes of coordination. I find that many organizations commonly considered integral to the GJM demonstrate organizational and coalitional modes of coordination, while formal organizations often engage in coalitional work. Organizations most densely networked, including some formal organizations,dohave social movement modes of coordination: they identify with the GJM, display continuity in attendance at international protests/events, and have contentious relations with political institutions. In addition, I raise methodological considerations for future studies of social movement modes of coordination.

A Yearning of the Heart: Spirituality and Politics

2006 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-66
Author(s):  
Helena Tagesson
Keyword(s):  
Social Movement ◽  
Global Justice ◽  
Personal Account ◽  
Global Justice Movement ◽  
Thich Nhat Hanh ◽  
The Eu ◽  
Social Movement Activism

AbstractThis text is a personal account of some of my experiences as an activist within the global justice movement and also as a Buddhist practitioner, and how these two ways of striving for human emancipation interlink and mutually reinforce each other. Using examples from the Swedish Attac movement and the EU summit mobilisations in Gothenburg in 2001, the text argues that social movement activism is often existentially challenging, in that its participants are made aware of their inability to live up to their own ideals of equality, inclusion, justice and dignity. Many activists experience a kind of deep, existential disappointment with themselves and their organisations, which makes it hard to sustain engagement, especially since most movements do not have a language for or a culture of speaking about these processes. The text shares experiences of using teachings and practices of teachers such as Thich Nhat Hanh, Chögyam Trungpa and Pema Chödrön in order to understand and integrate such disappointment and sustain engagement.

scholarly journals Rethinking Samir Amin’s Legacy and the Case for a Political Organization of the Global Justice Movement

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 336-344
Author(s):  
Bonn Juego
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Learning Organization ◽  
Global Justice ◽  
Political Organization ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Global Justice Movement ◽  
Organizational Function ◽  
Global Coordination ◽  
Mass Actions

Juego argues that the new Internationale’s “primary organizational function should be the global coordination of actions of progressive grassroots movements from country to country.” He calls for a ‘learning organization,’ where the new Internationale supports “a continuous dialogue between bottom-up and top-down approaches to decision-making.” He sees it as “[a]kin to a global coordinating council” meaning that it works to integrate and synthesize the “varying initiatives, campaigns, and mass actions at all geographical levels of membership” while remaining mindful of the “dialectics between reform and revolution.” The new Internationale must, moreover, be “grounded on a pragmatic understanding of realpolitik especially in struggles at national and local scales,” and institutionalize a commitment to dialogue, research, and discussion.

Spillover or Spillout? The Global Justice Movement in the United States After 9/11

2007 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 359-376 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Hadden ◽  
Sidney Tarrow
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Global Justice ◽  
American Exceptionalism ◽  
Original Data ◽  
The United States ◽  
Transnational Activism ◽  
Global Justice Movement ◽  
General Decline ◽  
Justice Movements

This article focuses on a seemingly paradoxical sequel to the 1999 Seattle WTO protests: the weakening of the global justice movement in the United States. While the movement has flourished in Europe, it seems largely to have stagnated in the American context. This outcome cannot be explained by either American exceptionalism or by a general decline in activism in the wake of the tragedies of 9/11 and the Iraq War. First comparing expressions of the American and European global justice movements and then turning to original data on social movement organizing in Seattle after 1999, we argue that the weakness of the American global justice movement can be tied to three key factors: (a) a more repressive atmosphere towards transnational protest; (b) a politically inspired linkage between global terrorism and transnational activism of all kinds; and (c) what we call "social movement spillout." We further argue that the strongest movement since September 11th—the antiwar movement—exemplifies a broader trend in the United States towards the "spillout" of transnational activism into domestic protest.

Global Movements

2018 ◽  
pp. 714-730
Author(s):  
Donatella della Porta
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Global Justice ◽  
Transnational Networks ◽  
Organizational Model ◽  
Neoliberal Globalization ◽  
Global Justice Movement ◽  
Governmental Organization ◽  
Global Movements

The chapter focuses on global social movements, defined as transnational networks of actors that define their causes as global and organize protest campaigns and other forms of action that target more than one state and/or international governmental organization. Bridging insights from international relations and social movement studies, the chapter analyzes the spread of transnational contention, examining some main characteristics of repertoires of action, organizational model, and framing processes, with particular attention to the global justice movement. Explanations for the spread of global movements are then reviewed: the politicization of international relations, the development of multilevel opportunities, movements’ strategies of domestication and externalization, and the spreading of neoliberal globalization. Finally, the chapter examines the potential evolution of global movements, considering the challenges to transnationalization of contention in recent anti-austerity protests.

scholarly journals From Global Justice to Occupy and Podemos: Mapping Three Stages of Contemporary Activism

2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 393-403 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter N. Funke ◽  
Todd Wolfson
Keyword(s):  
Social Movement ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Global Justice ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Political Struggle ◽  
Global Justice Movement ◽  
Neoliberal Capitalism ◽  
Three Stages ◽  
Movement Politics

Surveying the varied contributions to this special issue, this article examines the relationships, points of inspirations and contradictory dynamics that characterize the current epoch of social movement politics and global protest. The authors argue that with the progression of neoliberal capitalism and the explosion of new technologies, a shared logic of social movement politics has emerged. This logic spans from the Zapatistas and the Global Justice Movement to the uprisings in North Africa and the Middle East, the Occupy struggles and the most recent wave characterized by Podemos. While each of these waves of contention has a particular character, together they make up a broader epoch of struggle that thrives on multiplicity, emphasized radical participatory democracy, the innovative use of media and the heterogeneity of political struggle.

Explaining Variation in Transnational Climate Change Activism: The Role of Inter-Movement Spillover

2014 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 7-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Hadden
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Quantitative Data ◽  
Global Justice ◽  
Climate Justice ◽  
Transnational Activism ◽  
Global Justice Movement ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Over Time

How can we explain variation in the volume and character of transnational collective action on climate change? This paper presents original qualitative and quantitative data to document how transnational activism on climate change has changed over time. The author draws attention to the role of transnational social movement spillover—a process by which ideas, activists, and tactics are diffused from one movement to another—in explaining this evolution. The article examines the spillover of the global justice movement to the climate justice movement from 2007 to 2009, linking this spillover to changes in the nature of activism. In contrast to previous approaches, this work shows that transnational social movement spillover can result in the expansion of contention without radicalizing those actors already involved. This case demonstrates the theoretical importance of the spillover process and offers lessons for future climate activism.

scholarly journals Build Locally, Link Globally: The Social Forum Process in Italy

2010 ◽  
pp. 63-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donatella Della Porta ◽  
Lorenzo Mosca
Keyword(s):  
Social Movement ◽  
Global Justice ◽  
Social Movement Organizations ◽  
Collective Identities ◽  
Organizational Models ◽  
World Social Forum ◽  
Global Justice Movement ◽  
Italian Case ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Movement Organizations

Considered an innovation because of its capacity to develop transnational processes, the World Social Forum however also has strong local roots as well as effects on organizational models and collective identities at the domestic level. Focusing on the Italian case, this article shows how local social forums, as arenas for exchanges of ideas, played a cognitive role in the import, but also the translation of new ideas, as well as helping the emergence of dense network structures and tolerant identities. The first section of the article examines how local social forums contributed to innovation in the organizational formulas of the Global Justice Movement—considering both structure (organizations) and process (methodologies) aspects—through the development of different, more participatory conceptions of internal decision making. It then addresses the innovations in the definition of collective identities, stressing the linkages of local struggles and global framing as well as the development of a cross-issue discourse around an anti-neoliberal frame. The final section will discuss the contribution of local social forums to contemporary social movements, stressing the role of these new arenas for the cross-fertilization among different movement families and spreading a method of working together that becomes part of the repertoire of action of local social movement organizations. The empirical research consists mainly of in-depth interviews and focus groups with activists from social movement organizations which were involved in local social forums.

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