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European Social Movements and the Transnationalization of Public Spheres - Anti-austerity and pro-democracy mobilisation from the national to the global (Paperback)
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European Social Movements and the Transnationalization of Public Spheres - Anti-austerity and pro-democracy mobilisation from the national to the global (Paperback)
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Many contemporary social movements observe, copy, learn from,
coordinate and cooperate with other movements abroad, and some
mobilise to influence processes of global governance. Can these
transnational dimensions of mobilization transform the territorial
scale of political debate on issues of common concern in public
spheres? In contrast to many existing studies, which focus on the
media as carriers of public sphere transnationalisation, this book
presents a theoretical and empirical exploration of the role of
social movements in such processes. As 'arenas' or subaltern
counterpublics in themselves, social movements may provide a
setting in which activists come to frame claims in a comparative
manner, interact with activists from other countries, frame
problems as matters of transnational concerns or consider
themselves members of transnational communities. As 'actors' social
movements may contribute to the transnational transformation of
public spheres by directing claims to political authorities beyond
the state, claiming to represent transnational constituencies, and
focus on similar issues and use similar frames of reference as
movements abroad. The book's case studies addressing efforts to
build transnational social movements and transnational dimensions
of anti-austerity and prodemocracy movements in Spain, Portugal,
Greece, Turkey and Ireland provide contemporary empirical
illustrations of such processes at work. The chapters were
originally published in a special issue of the Journal of Civil
Society.
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