Transnational Protest and Global Activism

In this book, two titans of social movement scholarship bring together the best current research on the nexus between the local and the global in translating the global justice movement into action at the grassroots, and vice versa. Using recent cases of transnational contention_from the European Social Forum in Florence to the Argentinean human rights movement and British environmentalists, from movement networks in Bristol and Glasgow to the Zapatistas_the original chapters by distinguished scholars presented in this volume adapt current social movement theory to what appears to be a new cycle of protest developing around the globe.

W. Lance Bennett is professor of political science and Ruddick C. Lawrence Professor of Communication at the University of Washington Donatella della Porta is professor of sociology at the European University Institute, Florence Mario Diani is professor of sociology at the University of Trento and honorary research professor at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow Erik Johnson is a doctoral student in sociology at The Pennsylvania State University Felix Kolb is a PhD candidate at the Free University of Berlin Doug McAdam is professor of sociology at Stanford University John D. McCarthy is professor of sociology and at The Pennsylvania State University Christopher Rootes is reader in political sociology and environmental politics at the University of Kent at Canterbury Kathryn Sikkink is the Arleen C. Carlson Professor of Political Science at the University of Minnesota Sidney Tarrow is the Maxwell M. Upson Professor of Government and professor of sociology at Cornell University