National domestic struggles absorb activist energy that might target global summits

Evidence

Meanwhile, between 100 and 150 thousand demonstrators gathered on both sides of the nearby French/Swiss border to hold their own countersummit in response to Evian’s great power deliberations. About a third each of the demonstrators came from Switzerland, France, and the rest of Europe. They stated their opposition to multinational corporations, to the indebtedness of poor countries, and to world financial institutions. But they also brought more particular national issues to the table. Looking back a month later, activists from Geneva complained that “[t]he big French organizations were not enthusiastic and [were] totally tied up in the massive mobilizations and general strike to save the pension system and public education” (APCM 2003, 2). Protest organizers had announced their intention of shutting down the summit by blocking access to Evian. But they settled for shows of numbers, unity, and commitment. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1117

Categorization

• XREF: This is empirical material for testing how Tilly’s regime-type framework handles transnational contention — domestic absorption of mobilization capacity, relevant to reader’s hypothesis about institutional absorption defusing politicization. — connects to: Multilateral climate summits structurally protect national self-interest over collective action — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 2667; Working politics requires coordinating local struggles with a global totalizing dimension — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 713; Revolutionary problems transcend national boundaries and require international coordination (+2 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1117

Broader Connections

• Resistance to human fracking requires activism across many scales simultaneously #complicates (0.80)
• Working politics requires coordinating local struggles with a global totalizing dimension #complicates (0.78) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 713
• Revolutionary problems transcend national boundaries and require international coordination #complicates (0.74)
• Multilateral climate summits structurally protect national self-interest over collective action #expands (0.72) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2667
• Networks of local protest can constitute national politics from the ground up #complicates (0.72) — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 620