1. Presented by Di You
MGMT 312
Bucknell University

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 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

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 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

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 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

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 The idea actors used to convince people to engage in
collective action.
Difference between social movements and alliances

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 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JUZOGkw6tQ
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMhLRMOug
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 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBakrZUgbEE

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 Movement for new global justice
 Challenge the specifically neoliberal policies
 Two version of globalization:

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 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

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 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

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 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

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 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?

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 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

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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…