European Social Movements and the Transnationalization of Public Spheres
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 transnationalization, 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 books 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 in this book were originally published in a special issue of the Journal of Civil Society.
Angela Bourne is Associate Professor at the Department of Social Science and Business, Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark.
European Social Movements and the Transnationalization of Public Spheres
Anti-austerity and Pro-democracy Mobilisation from the National to the Global
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Angela Bourne
Angela Bourne
Britta Baumgarten and Rubn Dez Garca
Richard Dunphy
Jochen Roose, Kostas Kanellopoulos and Moritz Sommer
Isabel David and Gabriela Anouck Crte-Real Pinto
scar Garca Agustn
Ramn A. Feenstra
Thomas P. Boje
The chapters in this book were originally published in the Journal of Civil Society, volume 13, issue 3 (September 2017). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
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Journal of Civil Society, volume 13, issue 3 (September 2017) pp. 223230
Angela Bourne
Journal of Civil Society, volume 13, issue 3 (September 2017) pp. 231246
Britta Baumgarten and Rubn Dez Garca
Journal of Civil Society, volume 13, issue 3 (September 2017) pp. 247266
Richard Dunphy
Journal of Civil Society, volume 13, issue 3 (September 2017) pp. 267283
Jochen Roose, Kostas Kanellopoulos and Moritz Sommer
Journal of Civil Society, volume 13, issue 3 (September 2017) pp. 284306
Isabel David and Gabriela Anouck Crte-Real Pinto
Journal of Civil Society, volume 13, issue 3 (September 2017) pp. 307322
scar Garca Agustn
Journal of Civil Society, volume 13, issue 3 (September 2017) pp. 323336
Ramn A. Feenstra
Journal of Civil Society, volume 13, issue 3 (September 2017) pp. 337348
Thomas P. Boje
Journal of Civil Society, volume 13, issue 3 (September 2017) pp. 349356
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scar Garca Agustn is Associate Professor at the Department of Culture and Global Studies, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark.
Britta Baumgarten is a Professor at the Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology, University Institute of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal.
Thomas P. Boje is Reader in Social Science at the Department of Social Science and Business, Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark.
Angela Bourne is Associate Professor at the Department of Social Science and Business, Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark.
Gabriela Anouck Crte-Real Pinto is based at the School of Environment, Education and Development, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
Isabel David is based at the Instituto do Oriente, Instituto Superior de Cincias Sociais e Polticas, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal.
Richard Dunphy is based at the School of Social Sciences, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland.
Ramn A. Feenstra is based at the Department of Philosophy and Sociology, Faculty of Human and Social Sciences, Jaume I University, Castelln, Spain.
Rubn Dez Garca is Lecturer of Sociology at the Social Sciences Department, University Carlos III of Madrid and University Complutense of Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
Kostas Kanellopoulos is Senior Researcher at the Department of Sociology, University of Crete, Rethymnon, Greece.
Jochen Roose is Professor and Chair of Sociology at the Willy Brandt Center, University of Wroclaw, Wroclaw, Poland.
Moritz Sommer is a research assistant at the Department of Political & Social Science, Freie Universitt Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Angela Bourne
In July 2015, as Greeks voted in a referendum on the conditions of a third International Monetary Fund (IMF)-European Union (EU) bailout, many social movements around the world rallied, under the banner of the Greek No campaigns Oxi slogan, in protest against the introduction of further austerity measures in Greece and beyond. The international media, both old and new, covered the referendum in Greece extensively. Indeed in the latter, expressions of solidarity with Greece left a large footprint, with, for example, the hashtag #ThisIsACoup becoming the second top trending topic on Twitter worldwide (