Countersummits institutionalized into an imitable social forum model

Evidence

Since the 1990s, antiglobalization activists had regularly shadowed international financial and political summits with countersummits. The December 1999 meeting of the World Trade Organization brought something like fifty thousand demonstrators to Seattle, and drew worldwide attention to antiglobalization organizing. In January 2001, when a World Economic Forum of great powers was meeting in well-guarded Davos, Switzerland, an international conference called the World Social Forum convened in Porto Alegre, Brazil. That countersummit had legs: it became a model not only for later worldwide gatherings but also for regional and local antiglobalization organizations as well. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1123

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Tilly’s broader thesis about repertoire innovation and diffusion — the Porto Alegre template spreading regionally is a clean example of a contentious performance being institutionalized. — connects to: A counter-counterculture of right-wing weirdos turned subversiveness against Democratic partisans — W. David Marx, Blank Space: A Cultural History of the…, 835; Identical interaction forms recur across radically different social groups — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 198; Social modeling through media can bypass trial-and-error limits and spread behavior change worldwide
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1123

Broader Connections

• Identical interaction forms recur across radically different social groups #expands (0.78) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 198
• A counter-counterculture of right-wing weirdos turned subversiveness against Democratic partisans #exemplifies (0.75) — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 835
• Social modeling through media can bypass trial-and-error limits and spread behavior change worldwide #exemplifies (0.71)