Dieter Rucht

Die politischen Demonstrationen am 1. Mai in Berlin waren und sind in vieler Hinsicht ungewöhnlich- angefangen vom "Blumenmai" des Jahres 1929 über den Nazi-Aufmarsch 1933 und die rivalisierenden Kundgebungen in Ost- und Westberlin in den Nachkriegsjahrzehnten bis hin zu den konkurrierenden Veranstaltungen von Gewerkschaften, PDS, linksradikalen Gruppen und NPD in den vergangenen Jahren. Am Beispiel des 1. Mai 2002 wird dieses komplexe Demonstrationsgeschehen in Berlin in seinenTraditionslinien, seinen Inszenierungen und seiner Sinngebung durch die beteiligten Akteure beschrieben und interpretiert. Gegenstand der Analysen ist auch die Behandlung der Proteste durch Polizei und Justiz sowie die Resonanz der Ereignisse in den Printmedien und Fernsehnachrichten.

Politische Demonstrationsrituale

Berlin, 1. Mai 2002

Brian D. Loader

Paul G. Nixon

Wim van de Donk

Ever since the anti-globalisation protests in Seattle in 1999 the adoption of new information and communications technologies (ICTs) by social movement activists has offered the prospect for the development of global cyberprotest. The Internet with its transnational many-to-many communication facility offers a revolutionary potential for social movements to go online and circumvent the 'official' messages of political and commercial organisations and the traditional media, by speaking directly to the citizens of the world. Furthermore the use of electronic mail (e-mail), mailing lists, websites, electronic forums and other online applications provide powerful media tools for co-ordinating the activity of often physically dispersed movement actors. Moreover, ICTs may also contribute to the important function of social movements of shaping collective identity and countering the claims and arguments of established political interests. A growing body of literature during the last decades of the twentieth century attests to the significant impact SMs have had upon the restructuring of the political landscape. Most of that literature addresses the more traditional actors and institutions (e.g. parliaments, political parties, bureaucracy etc.). Less attention has been devoted to those manifestations of political action that are concentrated around social movements and all kinds of more or less institutionalised and sustainable forms of citizen mobilisation. This book is a collection of cases that take a critical look into the way ICTs are finding their way into the world of social movements

New Media, Citizens and Social Movements

Cyberprotest

Donatella Della Porta

Hanspeter Kriesi

The growing interdependence on a global scale which characterizes the human condition at the turn of the century constitutes a challenge for both the mobilization of social movements and social movement theory. This volume makes an attempt to adjust the perspective of the political process approach to a world in which political opportunities, mobilizing structures, framing processes and collective action of social movements are political contexts.

Social Movements in a Globalizing World

Donatella della Porta

An innovative study of the internal practices of deliberation and democratic decision-making in twelve Global Justice social movement groups.

Power and Deliberation in Global Justice Movements

Meeting Democracy

Peter Imbusch

Das Buch analysiert anhand von neun Fallstudien aus unterschiedlichen Bereichen Aspekte der gesellschaftlichen Verantwortung von Wirtschaftseliten. Es fragt nach den Ursachen und Bedingungen eines gesellschaftlichen Engagements, aber auch nach den Gründen für die Ablehnung von Verantwortung.

Fallstudien zur gesellschaftlichen Verantwortung von Wirtschaftseliten

Profit oder Gemeinwohl?

A study of social movements in ten Western democracies - a field of social science that is difficult to survey. The book summarizes theoretical approaches and their methodological correlates and provides an inventory of research on social movements in the US and nine West European countries.

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