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Globalization & Social Movements
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Bucknell University
GLOBALIZATION
Large informal grouping of
individuals/organizations Focus on specific political or social issues Carry out, resist or undo a social change Minimal conditions: Shared ideas and frames Mechanism for transnational movements:
diffusion and brokerage
WHAT ARE SOCIAL MOVEMENTS?
MODEL OF ANALYSIS
North: unemployment; decrease in job
security; unprotected working conditions South: negative social effects of the neoliberal
policies by international organization; force developing countries to make substantial cuts
ECONOMIC GLOBALIZATION
The westernization of world Revolution of technology and science spread
the western culture Resurgence of forms of nationalism, ethnic
movements, religious mobilization are reactions of cultural intrusion
Interconnections lead to more conflicts
CULTURAL GLOBALIZATION
The idea actors used to convince people to
engage in collective action.
Question:
Difference between social movements and alliances
Meaning Work !
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Social Movements
PROTESTS AROUND THE WORLD
Movement for new global justice Challenge the specifically neoliberal policies Two version of globalization:
PROTEST AGAINST WTO IN SEATTLE
Ability to develop a common interpretation of
reality to nurture solidarity and collective identification
Social movements are different from political participation
Informal networks linking a plurality of individuals and groups
CHARACTERISTICS OF SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
Airport, train station, metro were closed City center closed Keep Certain Italian militants from entering
Genoa More than 2000 people turned back at Italian
border
G8 IN GENOA 2001
Globally success included more than
20,000delegates from 105 countries Buses from Spain; special train from France
and Austria; special ship from Greece No violence Seek to create a world of equality, social rights
and respect of diversity
THE FIRST ESF IN FLORENCE
2002
PUERTA DEL SOL, MADRID
This is a research question…. What would be the evidence to look for, given
the definition of social movements that della Porta et al use?
Is this a global social movement?
Framing process is able to link very different
actors from different social, political, organizational, and geographical sites.
The master frame “resonate” with the schemas of activists who belong to different sectors of the movements.
The master frame provided the symbolic basis
FRAMING PROCESS
ACTIVIST SCHEMAS
NETWORK OF ACTIVISTS’
SCHEMA
The master framing enables different themes to be interconnected, convincing groups from different countries and/or active on different issues to join a commonstruggle: "The larger the range of the problems covered by a frame, the larger the range of societal groups who can be addressed with the frame and the greater the mobilization capacity of the frame" (Gerhards and Rucht (1992) 580)
Conclusion…