Democracy in social movements / edited by Donatella della Porta.
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TextPublisher: Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009Description: xiv, 300 pages ; 23 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0230218830
- 9780230218833
- 303.484 22
- HM881 .D46 2009
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 303.484 DEM (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A453031B |
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| 303.484 CRI Critical globalization studies / | 303.484 DAR Boundaries of dissent : protest and state power in the media age / | 303.484 DEL Social movements : an introduction / | 303.484 DEM Democracy in social movements / | 303.484 EMO Emotions and social movements / | 303.484 FOU Transgression as a mode of resistance : rethinking social movement in an era of corporate globalization / | 303.484 GLO Globalizing resistance : the state of struggle / |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-295) and index.
Organizational structures and visions of democracy in the global justice movement : an introduction / Donatella della Porta -- Global justice movement organizations : the organizational population / Donatella della Porta -- Participatory traditions within the global justice movement / Herbert Reiter -- Consensus in movements / Donatella della Porta -- Social movements and multilevel governance : the external dimension of democracy / Donatella della Porta -- Why are social movement organizations deliberative? Structural and cultural determinants of internal decision making in the global justice movement / Marco Giugni and Alessandro Nai -- Organizational size and democratic practices : can large be beautiful? / Clare Saunders -- Forms of action of global justice movement groups : do conceptions and practices of democracy matter? / Dieter Rucht and Simon Teune -- Unconventional politics online : internet and the global justice movement / Lorenzo Mosca and Donatella della Porta -- The generational issue : the impact of organizations' age on visions of democracy / Hélène Combes, Nicolas Haeringer and Isabelle Sommier -- Crossing borders : transnational activism in European social movements / Mario Pianta, Raffaele Marchetti, and Duccio Zola -- Democracy in movement : some conclusions / Donatella della Porta.
This collection explores conceptions and practices of democracy of social movement organizations involved in global protest. Focusing on the global justice movement this book shows how they adopt radical new democratic approaches and thus provide a fundamental critique of conventional politics.
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