Bridges or divides? Conflicts and synergies of coalition building across countries and sectors in the Global Justice Movement

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Priska Daphi ◽  
Felix Anderl ◽  
Nicole Deitelhoff
Keyword(s):  
Global Justice ◽  
Coalition Building ◽  
Global Justice Movement

Making The Polis: Social Forums and Democracy in The Global Justice Movement

2005 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donatella Porta
Keyword(s):  
Deliberative Democracy ◽  
Global Justice ◽  
Internal Communication ◽  
Global Justice Movement ◽  
Good Communication ◽  
Organizational Demands ◽  
Past Experiences ◽  
Movement Organizations ◽  
The Cost

The debate on deliberative democracy could open a fruitful perspective for research on social movement conceptions and practices of democracy. This article reports a pilot study of the values and norms that guide the global justice movement's organizational choices based upon focus groups and in-depth interviews with participants in various Italian social forums. Deliberative democracy, which emphasizes participation and the quality of communication, is particularly relevant for a multifaceted, heterogeneous movement that incorporates many social, generational, and ideological groups as well as movement organizations from different countries. The global justice movement—a "movement of movements" according to some activists—comprises a dense network of movement organizations, often the product of previous protest cycles. It builds upon past experiences of organizational institutionalization, but also upon reflexive criticisms of it. These networks of networks provide important resources, but also pose challenges for participation and internal communication. The activists in our study addressed these challenges by building an organizational culture that stressed diversity rather than homogeneity; subjectivity, rather than obedience to organizational demands; transparency, even at the cost of effectiveness; open confrontations oriented to consensus building over efficient decision making; and "ideological contamination" rather than dogmatism. Traditional participatory models of democracy are bridged with concerns for good communication and deliberation.

Unconventional Politics Online: Internet and the Global Justice Movement

2009 ◽  
pp. 194-216 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorenzo Mosca ◽  
Donatella della Porta
Keyword(s):  
Global Justice ◽  
Global Justice Movement

Transnational Activisms and the Global Justice Movement

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donatella della Porta ◽  
Raffaele Marchetti
Keyword(s):  
Global Justice ◽  
Global Justice Movement

Between Individuality and Collectiveness

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anastasia Kavada
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Global Justice ◽  
Individual Autonomy ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Global Justice Movement ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Unity In Diversity ◽  
Communication Practices ◽  
Use Of The Internet

Decentralized and internally diverse, the Global Justice Movement (GJM) is thought to be influenced by its use of the internet. Operating in an environment characterized by the conditions of globalization and late modernity, the movement strives to be a collective that accommodates individual difference. Focusing on the organizing process of the European Social Forum, this article examines the role of email lists and physical meetings in realizing this ‘unity in diversity’. Based on interviews with movement activists and a content analysis of three email lists, this article examines how online and face-to-face communication practices engender different dynamics in terms of individuality and collectiveness. While communication on email lists tends to afford divergence, diversity, and individual autonomy, face-to-face contact enables convergence, unity and the affirmation of the collective. Thus, it is the combination of those two modes of communication that helps the movement to fuse seemingly opposing dynamics.

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