Observing Protest from a Place: The World Social Forum in Dakar (2011)
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English
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978-90-8964-780-1
Cover
Table of contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Johanna Siméant, Marie-Emmanuelle Pommerolle and Isabelle Sommier
1 Methodological reasons for observing a WSF in Africa
2 The division of labor and the paradoxes of activist internationalization
3 Contexts of international collective action
1 What can quantitative surveys tell us about GJM activists?
Isabelle Sommier
1.1 Data and methods
1.2 The seemingly convergent portrait of the alter-global activist
1.3 The evolution of the multi-organizational field of alter-globalism: a delicate comparison
1.4 Conclusion
2 Activist encounters at the World Social Forum
Nationalism and sovereignty in an internationalized event
Marie-Emmanuelle Pommerolle
2.1 Internationalized nationalism and sovereignty
2.2 The misunderstanding that produces nationalist commitments
2.3 Conclusion
3 Mapping a population and its taste in tactics
Johanna Siméant, with Ilhame Hajji
3.1 What do we know about how familiar alter-globalization activists are with protest practices?
3.2 Familiarity with protest practices among the respondents at the Dakar WSF
3.3 Using Multiple Correspondence Analysis (MCA) and Ascending Hierarchical Clustering to study populations “in a situation of militancy” in an international event
3.4 Ascending Hierarchical Clustering, composition of groups of participants, and “bringing real people back in” through paragons
3.5 Conclusion
4 Women’s issues and activists at the World Social Forum in Dakar
Julie Castro
4.1 Transnational, but not only: the actors of women’s issues in Dakar
4.2 Strategies, tensions, and blind spots around women’s issues in Dakar
5 Division of labor and partnerships in transnational social movements
Observations of North-South and South-South interactions at the World Social Forum
Hélène Baillot, Isaline Bergamaschi and Ruggero Iori
5.1 Acting “on behalf of” or acting “with.” Methods of North-South cooperation at the Forum
5.2 South-South interactions at the WSF: another kind of cooperation?
6 Making waste (in)visible at the Dakar World Social Forum
A Goffmanian perspective on a transnational alter-global gathering
William Herrera, Alice Judell and Clément Paule
6.1 Waste management as stage-setting for a transnational alter-global event
6.2 Audiences
6.3 Backstage tactics and the boundaries of an institutionalized activist space
7 Latin Americans at the World Social Forum in Dakar
The relationship between the alter-global movement and the institutional sphere
Isaline Bergamaschi, Tania Navarro Rodríguez and Héloïse Nez
7.1 The singularity of the Latin Americans’ relationship to politics
7.2 Explaining Latin American singularity: a specific militant profile
7.3 Conclusion
8 Groups and organizations at the WSF
Polarities, intermediaries, and hierarchies in the alter-global arena
Johanna Siméant, with Ilhame Hajji
8.1 Between material support of mobilization and ideological indicators: a forum portrait through organizations
8.2 Organizational space and social space
8.3 Understanding the affinities between organizations
9 Stepping back from your figures to figure out more
Ilka Vari-Lavoisier
9.1 Why and how to inquire about “no-replies”
9.2 A panorama of “no-replies” in the WSF survey
9.3 Do the conditions of participation shape the modalities of participation?
9.4 When “no-replies” question the question
9.5 Level of instruction, social capital, and political competence
9.6 Feeling of political competence and nationality
9.7 Conducting surveys in several languages: methodological challenges
9.8 Insurmountable difficulties? Different worlds of meaning
9.9 Conclusion: what no-replies reveal
10 Conclusion
Johanna Siméant
Technical appendix: Surveying an international event through a multinational team
General data on participants
Appendix to Chapter 8 on groups and organizations: Clusters obtained by Ascending Hierarchical Clustering
Questionnaire for participants to the Dakar World Social Forum
Editor’s biographies
Bibliography
Index
Author’s names
Concepts and notions
Organizations, places and public persons’ names
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