From economic globalization to the "War on Terrorism". Transformations of Czech left activism at the begining of the 21. century
Abstract
The study analyzes the evolution of Czech alterglobalization and antiwar activism between 2002 and 2009. It focuses especially on the period of decline of alterglobalization movement and its transformation into the alterglobalization subculture on the one hand, and into the "anti-radar"coalition on the other.
Particularly, the study aims to answer following questions: which processes and mechanisms were part of the interaction between Czech alterglobalization and antiwar activism? What was the impact of this interaction on the cooperation and collective identity of alterglobalization groups and organizations? Was there a change of shared collective identity along the change of the protest activities and partners? The study also aims at more general introduction of contemporary approaches to the study of social movements which differentiate two key modes of collective action - sharing of the resources and (re)making of collective identity. The study offers answers to the questions on the relations between the collective identities and strategies of resource mobilization in the case of Czech alterglobalization activism, character of this relation across various thematic fields of collective action and its transformation in time.