International Zapatismo: the construction of solidarity in the age of globalization

Abstract

1. Introduction: The Transnational Zapatista Solidarity Network 1.1. Mapping the 'Invisible Continent': Questions and Levels of Analysis 1.2. Explanatory Threads in the Literature: Subjective, Systemic, and Technological Approaches to Research Question 1.3. Weaving the Explanatory Threads Together: An Outline of the Theoretical Argument in Relation to Research Question 1.4. Studying the Transnational Zapatista Solidarity Network: Issues of Methodology and Dissertation Structure 1.5. Synthesis of the Discussions 2. Theorizing Transnational Framing 2.1. Social Constructionist Theory in the Study of Social Movements 2.2. The Transnational Framing Process: Facilitative Conditions 2.3. Transnational Counterpublics: The Social Terrain of Informal Transnational Movement Networks 2.4. Synthesis of the Discussions 3. The Infrastructure of the Transnational Zapatista Solidarity Network 3.1. The 'Putty' Holding the Transnational Zapatista Solidarity Network Together: The Computer Mediated Circulation of Information 3.2. Face-to-Face Encounters: The Reciprocity of the Physical and Mediated Aspects of the Transnational Zapatista Solidarity Network 3.3. Node of Special Influence: The EZLN in the Infrastructure of the Transnational Zapatista Solidarity Network 3.4. Synthesis of the Discussions 4. The Activities of the Transnational Zapatista Solidarity Network 4.1. Civil Society Politics: Direct Solidarity and Information Activities 4.2. Institutional Politics: Making the Politicians Listen 4.3. Blurring the Distinction between Civil Society and Institutional Politics: The Formation of a Transnational Counterpublic 4.4. Synthesis of the Discussions 5. Mutual Solidarity and Global Consciousness: The EZLN and the Mediation between Particularity and Universality 5.1. Solidarity and Global Consciousness: From Altruism to Mutual Solidarity 5.2. The 'Politics of Overflowing': Transcending the Particularity of the EZLN Struggle 5.3. Synthesis of the Discussions 6. Neoliberalism and the Left: The Diffusion and Expansion of the EZLN Injustice Frame 6.1. The National Dimension in the EZLN Injustice Frame 6.2. The 'Fourth World War' against 'Humanity': The Recognition Component and the Transnationalization of the EZLN Injustice Frame 6.3. The 'Ultimate Underdogs': The Action Component and the EZLN's Impact on the Left after the End of the Cold War 6.4. The EZLN and the Transnational Protest Network: Overlapping Networks and the Politicization of Solidarity 6.5. Synthesis of the Discussions 7. The Struggle 'Inside' the Democratic Master Frame: The EZLN and Radical Democracy 7.1. The EZLN and Radical Democratic Social Change in Mexico 7.2. Traces of the EZLN Radical Democratic Action Master Frame beyond Mexico 7.3. Synthesis of the Discussions 8. The Internet, the EZLN, and the Zapatista Communities: The Mediation of Everyday Experiences 8.1. The Internet as Social Space 8.2. 'We Denounce...': Diminishing Social and Cultural Distance via the Internet 8.3. The 'Illusion of