In(ter)ventions of Global Democracy: An Analysis of the Rhetorics of the A-16 World Bank/IMF Protests in Washington, DC

Ryder, Phyllis Mentzell

doi:10.1207/s15327981rr2504_3

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“…This ideology can spread to entire regions and the cohesiveness of these transnational convergences has even successfully lobbied blocs of state actors to take collective action at the meetings of global finance institutions (Esparza, 2009). This ideological convergence has been described even as a 'convergence movement' (Shepard, 2002) and some use the word 'convergence' imprecisely, synonymous with the word 'mobilization' (Ryder, 2006). They use similar decision-making patterns, using the consensus process to make decisions.…”

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confidence: 99%

Convergence repertoires: anti-capitalist protest at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics

Esparza

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2015

Contemporary Justice Review

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This article introduces the term 'convergence' in order to explain a distinctive repertoire of protest events in which the following are present: (1) activists with an ideologically anti-capitalist orientation; (2) engage in property destruction;(3) travel from outside of the site of the protest event; and (4) solicit a determinable police response. Convergences have emerged as a subset of the alterglobalization movement since the 'Battle in Seattle' in 1999. Convergences have since emerged in resistance to meetings of global financial institutions, political primaries, and recently, the Olympic Games. We examine the logic that activists use to weave resistance to these disparate targets together. In this article, we arrive at this finding inductively, paying particular attention to convergence events at the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games. Narratives around convergence repertoires allow activists to link seemingly disparate actors with similar and predictable performances.

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Section: Ideologymentioning

confidence: 99%