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Grewal, Ramneek. "Transnational advocacy networks : the case of Roma mobilization in Macedonia and Serbia." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/9707.
Full textReddy, Malgi Prasad. "Educator activists bridging transnational advocacy and community mobilisation ; learning from movement organisers in the South /." [S.l.] : [s.n.], 2005. http://www.diss.fu-berlin.de/2005/201/index.html.
Full textLuthfa, Samina. "Confronting the juggernaut of extraction : local, national and transnational mobilisation against the Phulbari coal mine in Bangladesh." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:ec3a3537-bfcd-4cc9-bc5a-40db7ff5bedc.
Full textGranier, Benoit. "Circulations transnationales et transformations de l’action publique : la mobilisation des sciences comportementales dans la politique énergétique japonaise (2010-2016)." Thesis, Lyon, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017LYSE2046/document.
Full textIn recent years, changing individual behaviours has become a key issue for public policy, which has been mobilising new bodies of knowledge, namely behavioural sciences. These are explicitly and increasingly used in Japan’s energy policy in order to lower household energy consumption, in the context of both the Fukushima nuclear disaster and the liberalisation of the energy markets. My dissertation investigates the explanatory factors and the implementation of this significant change in a policy domain which was so far marked by a techno-economic approach paying little attention to behavioural issues. Drawing on theoretical and methodological perspectives from public policy analysis and policy transfer studies, I analyse the genesis and the implementation of two large-scale programs: first, the smart grid social experiments named Smart Communities; second, the Opower’s Home Energy Reports pilot study. Building on about eighty semi-structured interviews and on a wide variety of written sources, I emphasise the major role played by transnational circulations in the design and the implementation of these programs, and more broadly in Japan’s energy policy.I argue that the mobilisation of behavioural sciences in Japan’s energy policy results from manifolds factors which question the opposition between the endogenous and exogenous nature of policy change, as well as the distinction between domestic and extranational factors. Indeed, the use of this body of knowledge can be explained by the strategies of a few stakeholders who achieved to introduce new policy ideas and tools coming from abroad, in response to issues faced by the Japanese Government. Through a micro-sociological analysis of their strategies, I suggest to endogenize the explanation of policy change while integrating exogenous factors and extranational dynamics. The mobilisation of behavioural sciences in Japan’s energy policy results inseparably from the expansion of this body of knowledge in academia and in public policy in the US and in Europe; from the strategies of transnational, Japanese and American stakeholders; and from the stringency of climate and energy problems in Japan. The US plays a central role in the transnational circulation of behavioural sciences in the energy field, which can be explained by the “practical” and “consensual” dimension of these sciences
Gallardo, Lucille. "Africagay contre le sida : un "combat africain" ? : approche relationnelle d'une mobilisation inter-associative franco-africaine." Thesis, Paris 10, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020PA100084.
Full textThis dissertation focuses on Franco-African inter-associative collaborations in the fight against AIDS and proposes to study their singularities. To this end, it focuses on the case of the « Africagay contre le sida » network, which, since the end of the 2000s, has brought together some twenty organizations in French-speaking Africa and the French organizations Aides and Sidaction, mobilized to defend the homosexual cause on the African continent. Based on an ethnographic survey that combines observation of the network's activities in several countries and at different scales, interviews, and the examination of archival fonds, it offers a socio-historical and relational analysis of the determinants and effects of transnational engagement. The research considers Franco-African collaborations through the prism of a dialectic mixing interdependencies and asymmetries. Interdependent in order to legitimize themselves in the international space of the fight against AIDS, organizations and individuals involved in these collaborations are not equal. "The international" is a socially distinctive resource. It is of greater benefit to the people and organizations that are in the most advantaged positions in their respective national spaces and within the collective. Nevertheless, the practices of extraversion, considered here as a practical sense of action under constraint, allow those who are less socially endowed to benefit from this form of collective action. At the crossroads of the sociology of the international, mobilization, and international aid, this dissertation allows us to understand how singular proximities and power relations, characteristics of Franco-African relations, are perpetuated and redeployed, from a non-substantialist point of view
Benedetti, Andrea. "Le Bureau socialiste international : de boîte postale à organisation intégrative, 1900-1918." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Strasbourg, 2024. http://www.theses.fr/2024STRAG015.
Full textThis thesis examines the International Socialist Bureau (ISB) through the prism of the gradual evolution of its competences, from its laborious creation in an internationalist milieu that rejected institutional centralisation, to the institution's paradoxical survival during the First World War, when the Second International had broken up. We are interested in the rationale behind the transformation of the ISB from a simple liaison tool to a coordinating body for transnational political mobilisation, in an attempt to understand the extent to which it can be likened to the contemporary concept of integrative organisation. This will enable us to ascertain whether the evolution of the ISB can be seen as a redefinition of internationalist dynamics themselves, aimed at making solidarity across borders palpable at a time of exacerbated nationalism in Europe
Laffitte, Hélène. "Expressions et organisation des personnes adoptées d'origine étrangère en France depuis les années 1980." Thesis, Angers, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019ANGE0075.
Full textAs time has passed and generations of children have become adults, adoptees have claimed a right to speak out, to express their experiences and have come together to bring their voices to the public stage. Generations of adopted children have become adults capable of expressing themselves on the subject and are sometimes organised in associations. Today, adoptees' organisations wish to be recognised as full-fledged actors in adoption within the French adoption institutions, which are mainly composed of associations of adoptive families and adoption professionals, often adoptive parents themselves. These associations of adopted persons wish that a real reflection be possible in order to improve the adult future of adopted children by refocusing the debate on the adopted person himself/herself and by taking him/her as the starting point for the reflection. This is how the association Racines Coréennes was created in 1995, and in 2005, the Voix des Adoptés, by young adults of South American origin, and then in 2012, the Conseil national des adoptés, on the initiative of leaders of associations involved in adoption, who consider that adopted persons have a voice to bear. Beyond self-expression, the analysis of individual and group discourses, which extends from digital narratives to the pleas of adoptee associations, is part of a strategy of agentivity aimed at asserting a civic posture and legitimising their position as adoption experts
Feriel, Cédric. "Piétonniser les centres-villes (1960-1980). États, pouvoirs municipaux et sociétés urbaines face aux mutations des centres urbains au second XXe siècle (Europe, États-Unis)." Thesis, Université Paris-Saclay (ComUE), 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015SACLV008.
Full textPedestrian streets have been regarded as anachronistic urban planning for a long time. Largely absent from french academic works on the evolution of western cities till the Second World War, pedestianisation has no history and is an anonymous phenomenon. It seems that nothing has to be learned from this layout, except it confirms city centers patrimonialization. But, considering pedestrianisation means closing an urban area to automobile traffic and redesigning entirely public spaces for pedestrian only (with uniform pavement), no pedestrian street is to be found in Europe before the second half of the twentieth century. This kind of layout appeared around 1960 in the United States and in Federal Republic of Germany. Our hypothesis is that pedestrianisation does belong to the 1960s-1970s urban planning and has no obvious connection with patrimonialisation.Based on this observation, this dissertation has two aims. The first one is to fill a gap in french historiography. While pedestrian areas are common in European towns, the subject remains a blind spot that prevent analysis of continuity and change with the interest for pedestrian places in present urban planning. The second deals with epistemological issues. It aims to renew the approach of city centers evolution after 1945, breaking with the paradigm of State policies as the sole driving force of urban planning and exploring, in this field, the role of local initiatives, social mobilisations and transnational exchanges. It also aims to deconstruct a mental framework in which innovation belongs to new urbanised areas, whereas city centers are to be dedicated to patrimonalization and heritage conservation. Dealing with the old urban fabric, urban planning has no obvious solution
Monier, Anne. "Mobilisations philanthropiques transnationales : les « Amis Américains » des institutions culturelles françaises." Paris, EHESS, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016EHES0151.
Full textOur thesis refreshes the analysis of philanthropy by offering a "street level" perspective, conceptualizing it as a mobilization relation. Based on a qualitative survey (interviews, ethnography, archives and document analysis) conducted in France and in the US, this work focuses, in particular, on the case of the American Friends groups of French cultural institutions, which are organizations enabling American patrons to make tax-deductable donations to foreign institutions. Crossing a thème well investigated by the literature on national individual philanthropy (the question of philanthropie relations and actors) with a transnational perspective, our thesis asks the question: What does the transnational "do" to philanthropie mobilization? It thus questions how philanthropy beyond borders leads to a particular form of mobilization of the élites. It demonstrates that transnational philanthropie mobilization requires the implementation of a form of "diplomatie intermediation. " Participating in the renewal of studies on diplomacy, by crossing them with the literature on intermediation, our thesis reveals the close relationship between philanthropy and diplomacy. Focusing especially on the actors, it contributes to the sociology of elites through the analysis of power struggles, distinction, and hierarchizing among elites in a transnational perspective. Based on a comprehensive approach, it also highlights the role of representations in international and transnational relations. Finally, adopting an ecological approach, it contributes to the works on the transformations of the State, and, more specifically, reconfigurations between the public and the private sectors
Mbala, Owono Firmin. "Une culture protestataire entre local et transnational : trajectoire des mobilisations anglophones du Cameroun." Bordeaux 4, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010BOR40090.
Full textThe present research is a contribution to the current effeorts of globalisation of the collective action theories, i. E. Opening-up of their empirical bases. Contrary to the dominant primordialist interpretations, this study considers that the Anglophone Cameroon collective protests fully deserve a sociology of mobilisations. To understand the persistence and the intensity variations of these phenomena over the longue durée, we propose an integrated framework based on the most recent theoretical developments, without rejecting the Africanist sociology most solid assets. In the wake of an emerging body of work it is suggested that a relevant recycling enables to articulate the categories of "resistance" ans "protestation". This approach is then implemented in two main steps. The first confronts historical and ethnographic data to shed some light on the formation of a collective action repertoire for the considered area. Following the contentious episode of 1990-95, the second part shows how this protest know-how is maintained, enriched or wasted through various trajectories of mobilisations' relative specialisation : institutionalisation, radicalisation and socialisation. Finally, despite increased environmental constraints, a rich Anglophone protest culture, opened and clearly confrontative appears, rooted in a series of local daily practices, as well as fed by transnational dynamics
Keren, Célia. "L’évacuation et l’accueil des enfants espagnols en France : cartographie d’une mobilisation transnationale (1936-1940)." Paris, EHESS, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014EHES0108.
Full textThis dissertation recounts the birth, the brief success and the disappearance of a humanitarian and anti-fascist cause of the end of the 1930s: the evacuation of Spanish children from wartime Republican Spain and their reception and care in France between 1936 and 1939. This evacuation programme resulted in 10,000 Spanish boys and girls fostered in French families or housed in children's colonies, often at the request of their parents. This study identifies the groups which carried out this project, the reasons for their commitment, the means they used and, finally, their achievements and failures. Through a transnational analysis of the French heir, committees and the Spanish State institutions involved, of their collaboration and dissensions, this research successively delves into different political universes: French left-wing parties and trade unions of the Popular Front alliance, French Catholics and the Vatican hierarchy, as well as the Spanish and Basque states. The contributions of this thesis are threefold. First, the cause of the Spanish evacuated children mobilized a wide array of groups who were able to place themselves under very different banners (antifascism, humanism or Christian charity): it thus gives rise to a new and more complex account of French reactions to the Spanish civil war. Secondly, the commitments and conflicts around the evacuated children allow us to observe the subtle ideological and strategic evolutions of all of these political players, in the critical years leading up to the Second World War. Finally, by uncovering a long-lived tradition of children's displacement and fostering in trade union practices, this study calls for a widening of theperimeter of the history of humanitarian aid
Delpech, Quentin. "A Puro Golpe! : Mobilisations syndicales transnationales, luttes locales et répressions au Guatemala." Paris 1, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA010330.
Full textMoissonnier, Loïc. "Coordination et conflits dans le mouvement altermondialiste européen : l'expérience de trois réseaux thématiques dans le cadre du Forum Social Européen (2005-2010)." Thesis, Grenoble, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011GRENH011/document.
Full textThis thesis is about the Global Justice Movement (GJM) in its European dimension, focusing on the European Social Forum process which was launched in Florence in November 2002. More precisely, specific thematic networks have been created in the course of this process with the aim of strengthening coordination between different participants on economic and social issues linked with the European integration. These networks were created in the wake of some campaigns of the Global Justice Movement in Europe which developed in the years 1997-2005. However, fewer and fewer participants took part in the meetings of the networks, and they finally disappeared as spaces of collective organisation. This thesis is aimed at explaining the failure of these networks. We first analyze their creation as a sign of a larger process of demobilisation after 2005, concerning the whole GJM in Europe. This process leads to conflicts between remaining participants, about the internal functioning of the networks (modes of decisions, etc.) and the external collective strategies that should be defined. We distinguish several phases between 2005 and 2010 where we can find this combination between demobisation and internal conflicts in the networks. Although we observe conflicts between actors of the networks while some global justice campaigns are coming to an end in Europe (2005-2006), the decline of participation in the European Social Forum leads to conflicts about the role these networks should have in this process (2007-2010). Finally, the huge loss of participants in the ESF in Istanbul in 2010 led to the end of the thematic networks which are studied here. Beyond their failure, we point at the end of this thesis the positive contribution of these experiences that favoured the constitution of a coherent group of actors with similar objectives at the European level
Mohamed, Youssouf. "Parcours migratoire, mobilisation transnationale et efforts de développement villageois aux Comores - Les migrants et leurs descendants à l’épreuve de l’engagement solidaire." Thesis, Paris, EHESS, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020EHES0040.
Full textAt the northern entrance to the Mozambique Channel, the Comoros archipelago’s four islands – Grande Comore, Anjouan, Mohéli and Mayotte – are situated between Madagascar and Mozambique. Until the first half of the 19th century, the islands of this archipelago of the Southwest Indian Ocean shared a tragic common destiny, being exposed to the conflicts of fighting sultans and looting by Malagasy pirates. The consequences of these abuses were the impoverishment of the archipelago and the deportation of men out of the Comoros. Since Mayotte was ceded to France in 1841, Franco-British rivalries in the Indian Ocean allowed the other three islands of the archipelago to remain more or less independent.This thesis analyzes the factors at the origin of the different waves of Comorian migration in the Southwest Indian Ocean since the second half of the 19th century, as well as their consequences, based on archives documents, literature and some testimonies. Towards the end of the 19th century, the arrival of western planters, followed by the signing of conventions and commercial agreements with the sultans, disinherited the Comorian peasants from their lands. The protectorate agreements with France from 1886 onwards exacerbated the vulnerability of the peasants by attributing remaining lands to the colonial societies. Dispossessed and hungry, many Comorians’ only choices were slave labor or exile. With the arrival of maritime couriers in the Indian Ocean, many Comorians fleeing misery chose to settle in Zanzibar, Madagascar and Reunion island. Later, in Zanzibar, the Okello revolution of 1964 led to Comorian migratory surges on the island, and twelve years later, in 1975, those settled in Madagascar were ultimately victims of the massacres perpetrated against them in Majunga. These two events marked the end of Comorian migration in the sub-region.Additionally, the migration of Comorians to France in the 1970s, a consequence of the bloody events that occurred in the Indian Ocean, are subsequently discussed. The development of this new migration, its mode of organization and the migrants’ relationship to the country of origin are broadly analyzed. For this, we relied on directed and semi-directed interviews, participant observation, as well as on existing literature. Today, a quarter of all Comorians live in France and Marseille, welcoming more Comorians than Moroni, the capital of Comoros. The Comorian diaspora in France keeps very strong links with the country of origin, it is one of the most active in sub-Saharan Africa both in terms of social associations and in terms of remittances. This diaspora is by far the largest funder of the Comoros. Village development is supported by migrants through their association structures and every village in the Comoros has its migrant associations in France. The current migration policy in France is generating drip-feed entries at a time when the first generation of migrants is gradually weakening and fading. From now on, the exchanges with the village will rest on the descendants of migrants who alone will decide to maintain or abandon these ties
Louis, Julien. "La Confédération européenne des syndicats à l’épreuve du droit et de la justice : genèse, usages et limites d’un mode d’action syndicale en faveur de l’Europe sociale." Thesis, Strasbourg, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019STRAG043.
Full textThis research focuses on the legal and judicial actions of the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC). Drawing on interviews, archives, grey literature and legal sources, this dissertation analyses how and why the Europeans trade unionists use European law and justice to defend their interests. By investigating the relationship between Social Europe, the European trade union movement and European law, this thesis makes three contributions. Firstly, we explain the limits of Social Europe by the dominated position of the trade unionists in the European legal field. Secondly, we contribute to knowledge about European trade unionism by doing the political and historical sociology of the trade union lawyers and their practices. Thirdly, by studying the legal and judicial actions of the European trade union actors as transnational mobilisations, we identify the resources, the organisational structures and the framings that characterise this form of trade union action
Ferron, Benjamin. "FERRON Benjamin, Les répertoires médiatiques des mobilisations altermondialistes (Mexique-Chiapas, Israël/Palestine, 1994-2006), Contribution à une analyse de la société transnationale, thèse de doctorat en science politique, Université de Rennes 1, 2012, 808 p." Phd thesis, Rennes 1, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012REN1G015.
Full textThis thesis compares the strategies deployed by two international solidarity networks - the neo-Zapatista movement, based in Chiapas, Mexico, and the Israel/Palestine anti-occupation movement - to publicly communicate the political causes they espouse in an activist context dominated by the development of global justice frameworks (1994-2006). The study adopts a constructivist approach, closely exploring the pratical dynamics of the international circulation of global justice ideas and actors, and is particularly concerned with the role played by activist media in this process. It argues that the partial convergence of collective action frameworks is the result of a series of tactical choices and internalised constraints,which have together favoured the development of discourses of struggle which are relatively independent of their social contexts of production. I undertook fieldwork comprising 76 semi-directive interviews with activists and journalists, a series of observations in "alternative media" centres, and archival work. The comparison of the media repertoires of each network enables the identification of the progressive specialisation of activists in the work of alternative mediatisation. Part I of the thesis focuses on the processes of internationalisation of movement political capital. Part II highlights the existence of a negative correlation between the development of conventional media coverage and activist investment in "alternative media" networks, which may function as spaces of compensation or of symbolic correction. Finally, Part III analyses the material conditions of production, diffusion and institutionalisation of media activism in each of the two networks
Pacouret, Jérôme. "Qu'est-ce qu'un auteur de cinéma ? : copyright, droit d'auteur et division du travail (années 1900-2010)." Thesis, Paris Sciences et Lettres (ComUE), 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018PSLEH084/document.
Full textWhy are motion pictures often attributed to authors – or “filmmakers” – while dozens of names and occupations appear in film credits? Following Foucault’s definition of authorship as a form of appropriation, this dissertation focuses on copyright law and authorship battles in order to explain the origins and existence of film authors. Rather than considering authors as the individuals who “make” movies or as a fiction overshadowing the collective nature of filmmaking, I show that the attribution of films to authors is the result of the division of filmmaking labor and its power relations. This research uses a sociohistorical perspective and a transnational approach centered on the United States and France, where film authors are not granted the same authorship rights. It shed lights on the national, international and transnational dimensions of the appropriation of motion pictures. This study starts when film authors first appeared in copyright law: as early as the 1900s.The first part of this dissertation focuses on the writing of motion pictures’ property rights from the birth of cinema to the passing of the French copyright law of 1957 and of the Copyright Act of 1976. After decades of battles, these laws provided different definitions of film authors and granted them with different rights. Using legal publications, congressional records and reports, as well as film journals, I study French and American laws as the results of a codification process shaped by preexisting law and by the cooperation and power relation between the actors who participated in their writing. The development of motion pictures’ property rights are the cause and consequence of the constitution of a space for negotiation between lawyers, public officials, politicians and film organizations. I explain that French and American copyright norms were structured by legal expertise, competition between lawyers, relations between film organizations and the unequal economic, legal and political power of these organizations. A study of the revisions of the Berne Convention for the protection of literary and artistic works also show the interdependency between national and international norms of film authorship and authorship.The second part of the dissertation study the appropriation of motion pictures as a social relation based on the division of filmmaking labor and social labor. Film authorship battles which started in the 1910s contributed to the creation of professional hierarchies and to the differentiation of film value from other forms of economic and artistic value. I use various writings of film professionals, along with other sources, to show that film authorship was shaped by various aspects of film production, dissemination and reception (including the power relations between film professionals, the diversity of film careers and the uses of authors’ names by film critics and audiences). To study the division of filmmaking labor, I use Pierre Bourdieu’s research on cultural fields, Howard Becker’s work on art worlds as well as scholarship on professions. The dissertation also shows that the professional hierarchies of motion picture production interrelate with various forms of domination common to other fields. This dissertation is meant to be useful for scholars interested in the history of copyright law, motion pictures, authorship, the division of (artistic) labor, professions and transnational approaches
Moissonnier, Loic. "Coordination et conflits dans le mouvement altermondialiste européen : l'expérience de trois réseaux thématiques dans le cadre du Forum Social Européen (2005-2010)." Phd thesis, Université de Grenoble, 2011. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00657709.
Full textGuignard, Lison. "La fabrique de l'égalité par le droit. Genèse et usages transnationaux du protocole de Maputo sur les droits des femmes de l’Union africaine." Thesis, Université Paris-Saclay (ComUE), 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018SACLN025.
Full textThis doctoral research explores the process of law-making of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa, better known as the Maputo Protocol. Crossing theoretical corpus of sociology of law-making and sociology of mobilisations, this thesis is dedicated to the genesis and trajectory of this text in different spaces, i.e the actors game taking place on the regional arena (OAU/AU) but also, concomitantly or successfully on the national and international arenas. It is a multi-scale approach which is adopted to analyse this normative production through the games and epistemological meaning bestowed by different actors. The research deals with potential uses and mobilisations of the Maputo protocol as they are produced by different clusters: the "cluster of the legal, judiciary and juridical instrument" (or expert cluster), the "cluster of public action instrument, promotion/protection of Women's Rights " (or activist cluster), the "cluster of legitimate and ceremonial" (or state cluster), the "cluster of universalistic referential" (or Northern cluster) and the "cluster of statu quo and inefficiency" (or resistant cluster). Indeed, it is through interactions between these different clusters, which act and interact during the making of this legal African text on equality between men and women, which is analysed this legal-making process (understood, in conformity with our sociological approach, as construction as well as implementation of this text). The doctoral research studies more specifically the structuring tension between symbolical and instrumental dimensions of law which shapes history and mobilisations around this text
Goreau-Ponceaud, Anthony. "La diaspora tamoule : trajectoires spatio-temporelles et inscriptions territoriales en Île-de-France." Phd thesis, Université Michel de Montaigne - Bordeaux III, 2008. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00365365.
Full textDufournet, Hélène. "Gouverner sans choisir : entre contrainte morale et réalisme politique : l'engagement français dans le processus d'interdiction des armes à sousmunitions (2003-2008)." Phd thesis, École normale supérieure de Cachan - ENS Cachan, 2011. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00621041.
Full textMac, Lorin Carminda. "Espaces transnationaux de mobilisation post-2011 : propositions pour une analyse complexe." Thesis, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/24626.
Full textThis dissertation aims to contribute to the thinking on certain transnational forms of social mobilization in the second decade of the 21st Century. To do so, it proposes three articles that examine different phenomena using an ethnographic approach: Occupy Montreal, Global Square, and the World Social Forum. The inspiration for this doctoral dissertation are the insights offered by critical geography on the importance of spatiality (Auyero, 2005; Massey, 1984; Therborn, 2006). It also explores “open space,” as presented in the literature on the World Social Forums (Keraghel and Sen, 2004; Sen, 2008; Teivainen, 2004; Wallerstein, 2004; Whitaker, 2000). Furthermore, my approach engages with the sociology literature on social movements (Fraser, 1990; Negt, 2007; Tilly, 2004) and contributes a complementary analysis – recognizing the desire for unity within the initiatives discussed as well as their complex and dynamic natures. The first article offers an interpretation of Occupy Montreal, which occupied Victoria Square in the fall of 2011. Observing two specific locations in the occupation, it questions whether observation of the spatiality of a so-called transnational social mobilization can teach us about the dynamics developed there. The second article of this thesis presents an analysis of two mobilizations that occurred in 2013 – the World Social Forum, held in Tunis, and Global Square. It therefor facilitates a dialogue between this emblematic alter-globalist phenomenon and an initiative comprised of activists from movements such as Occupy, Indignados, and the Jasmine Revolution – which organized on-line to participate in WSF 2013. This article explores the argument that transnational mobilization spaces are propelled by certain inherent tensions. The third article, co-authored with Nikolas Schall – uses the prism of “assemblage thinking” (DeLanda, 2006, 2016; Nail, 2017; Rabinow, 2011) to advance the understanding of transnational spaces, particularly the 2016 World Social Forum in Montreal. Assemblage thinking renews the possibilities for analyzing the constitutive heterogeneity of these complex transnational phenomena, which appear as the fruit of the interaction of multiple autonomous components (they themselves potentially being “assemblages of assemblages”), leading to the emergence of an ever-evolving “fragmentary whole” (DeLanda, 2006). The conclusion of this doctoral research offers a synthesis of these contributions. In the first instance it is shown how the theoretical dimensions presented in the introduction (illustrating the tensions between transnationality/anchorage, heterogeneity/unity, and horizontality/power relationships) are visible in each article. Then in the second instance, wishing to provide a response to the general question posed by this dissertation – how to account for complex transnational phenomena – I propose an analytical matrix for illustrating their emergence at the intersection of the various dimensions analyzed. The limitations of this dissertation are likewise presented. Finally, I suggest the relevance of expanding the concept of civil society to include the plurality of perspectives present in transnational spaces of mobilization.
Reddy, Malgi Prasad [Verfasser]. "Educator activists : bridging transnational advocacy and community mobilisation ; learning from movement organisers in the South / Autor Malgi Prasad Reddy." 2005. http://d-nb.info/976723107/34.
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