Globalization & Social Movements

Presented by Di YouMGMT 312

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…