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Observing protest from a place [electronic resource] : the World Social Forum in Dakar (2011) / edited by Johanna Siméant, Marie-Emmanuelle Pommerolle and Isabelle Sommier

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Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2015]
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1 online resource (271 pages :) : illustrations
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Siméant, Johanna, Pommerolle, Marie-Emmanuelle, and Sommier, Isabelle
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Machine generated contents note: 1.Methodological reasons for observing a WSF in Africa / Johanna Siméant / Marie-Emmanuelle Pommerolle / Isabelle Sommier -- 2.The division of labor and the paradoxes of activist internationalization / Johanna Siméant / Marie-Emmanuelle Pommerolle / Isabelle Sommier -- 3.Contexts of international collective action / Johanna Siméant / Marie-Emmanuelle Pommerolle / Isabelle Sommier -- 1.1.Data and methods / Isabelle Sommier -- 1.2.The seemingly convergent portrait of the alter-global activist / Isabelle Sommier -- 1.3.The evolution of the multi-organizational field of alter- globalism: a delicate comparison / Isabelle Sommier -- 1.4.Conclusion / Isabelle Sommier -- 2.1.Internationalized nationalism and sovereignty / Marie-Emmanuelle Pommerolle -- 2.2.The misunderstanding that produces nationalist commitments / Marie-Emmanuelle Pommerolle -- 2.3.Conclusion / Marie-Emmanuelle Pommerolle -- 3.1.What do we know about how familiar alter-globalization activists are with protest practices? / Johanna Simeant / Ilhame Hajji -- 3.2.Familiarity with protest practices among the respondents at the Dakar WSF / Johanna Simeant / Ilhame Hajji -- 3.3.Using Multiple Correspondence Analysis (MCA) and Ascending Hierarchical Clustering to study populations "in a situation of militancy" in an international event / Johanna Simeant / Ilhame Hajji -- 3.4.Ascending Hierarchical Clustering, composition of groups of participants, and "bringing real people back in" through paragons / Johanna Simeant / Ilhame Hajji -- 3.5.Conclusion / Johanna Simeant / Ilhame Hajji -- 4.1.Transnational, but not only: the actors of women's issues in Dakar / Julie Castro -- 4.2.Strategies, tensions, and blind spots around women's issues in Dakar / Julie Castro -- 5.1.Acting "on behalf of" or acting "with." Methods of North- South cooperation at the Forum / Hélène Baillot / Isaline Bergamaschi / Ruggero Iori -- 5.2.South-South interactions at the WSF: another kind of cooperation? / Hélène Baillot / Isaline Bergamaschi / Ruggero Iori -- 6.1.Waste management as stage-setting for a transnational alter-global event / William Herrera / Alice Judell / Clément Paule -- 6.2.Audiences / William Herrera / Alice Judell / Clément Paule -- 6.3.Backstage tactics and the boundaries of an institutionalized activist space / William Herrera / Alice Judell / Clément Paule -- 7.1.The singularity of the Latin Americans' relationship to politics / Isaline Bergamaschi / Tania Navarro Rodriguez / Héloise Nez -- 7.2.Explaining Latin American singularity: a specific militant profile / Isaline Bergamaschi / Tania Navarro Rodriguez / Héloise Nez -- 7.3.Conclusion / Isaline Bergamaschi / Tania Navarro Rodriguez / Héloise Nez -- 8.1.Between material support of mobilization and ideological indicators: a forum portrait through organizations / Johanna Siméant / Ilhame Hajji -- 8.2.Organizational space and social space / Johanna Siméant / Ilhame Hajji -- 8.3.Understanding the affinities between organizations / Johanna Siméant / Ilhame Hajji -- 9.1.Why and how to inquire about "no-replies" / Ilka Vari-Lavoisier -- 9.2.A panorama of "no-replies" in the WSF survey / Ilka Vari-Lavoisier -- 9.3.Do the conditions of participation shape the modalities of participation? / Ilka Vari-Lavoisier -- 9.4.When "no-replies" question the question / Ilka Vari-Lavoisier -- 9.5.Level of instruction, social capital, and political competence / Ilka Vari-Lavoisier -- 9.6.Feeling of political competence and nationality / Ilka Vari-Lavoisier -- 9.7.Conducting surveys in several languages: methodological challenges / Ilka Vari-Lavoisier -- 9.8.Insurmountable difficulties? Different worlds of meaning / Ilka Vari-Lavoisier -- 9.9.Conclusion: what no-replies reveal / Ilka Vari-Lavoisier -- Author's names / Johanna Siméant -- Concepts and notions / Johanna Siméant.
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9789089647801 (cloth)
9089647805 (cloth)
Note
"Observing protest from a place: the World Social Forum in Dakar (2011) examines the impact of the global justice movement, as seen from the southern hemisphere. Drawing upon a collective survey from the 2011 World Social Forum in Dakar in Dakar, the essays explore a number of methodological issues pertaining to the study of transnational mobilizations"--Back cover.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-264) and indexes.
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