Cover -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Methodological reasons for observing a WSF in Africa -- 2. The division of labor and the paradoxes of activist internationalization -- 3. Contexts of international collective action -- 1. What can quantitative surveys tell us about GJM activists? -- 1.1 Data and methods -- 1.2 The seemingly convergent portrait of the alter-global activist -- 1.3 The evolution of the multi-organizational field of alter-globalism: a delicate comparison -- 1.4 Conclusion -- 2. Activist encounters at the World Social Forum -- 2.1 Internationalized nationalism and sovereignty -- 2.2 The misunderstanding that produces nationalist commitments -- 2.3 Conclusion -- 3. Mapping a population and its taste in tactics -- 3.1 What do we know about how familiar alter-globalization activists are with protest practices? -- 3.2 Familiarity with protest practices among the respondents at the Dakar WSF -- 3.3 Using Multiple Correspondence Analysis (MCA) and Ascending Hierarchical Clustering to study populations "in a situation of militancy" in an international event -- 3.4 Ascending Hierarchical Clustering, composition of groups of participants, and "bringing real people back in" through paragons -- 3.5 Conclusion -- 4. Women's issues and activists at the World Social Forum in Dakar -- 4.1 Transnational, but not only: the actors of women's issues in Dakar -- 4.2 Strategies, tensions, and blind spots around women's issues in Dakar -- 5. Division of labor and partnerships in transnational social movements -- 5.1 Acting "on behalf of" or acting "with." Methods of North-South cooperation at the Forum -- 5.2 South-South interactions at the WSF: another kind of cooperation? -- 6. Making waste (in)visible at the Dakar World Social Forum -- 6.1 Waste management as stage-setting for a transnational alter-global event.

6.2 Audiences -- 6.3 Backstage tactics and the boundaries of an institutionalized activist space -- 7. Latin Americans at the World Social Forum in Dakar -- 7.1 The singularity of the Latin Americans' relationship to politics -- 7.2 Explaining Latin American singularity: a specific militant profile -- 7.3 Conclusion -- 8. Groups and organizations at the WSF -- 8.1 Between material support of mobilization and ideological indicators: a forum portrait through organizations -- 8.2 Organizational space and social space -- 8.3 Understanding the affinities between organizations -- 9. Stepping back from your figures to figure out more -- 9.1 Why and how to inquire about "no-replies" -- 9.2 A panorama of "no-replies" in the WSF survey -- 9.3 Do the conditions of participation shape the modalities of participation? -- 9.4 When "no-replies" question the question -- 9.5 Level of instruction, social capital, and political competence -- 9.6 Feeling of political competence and nationality -- 9.7 Conducting surveys in several languages: methodological challenges -- 9.8 Insurmountable difficulties? Different worlds of meaning -- 9.9 Conclusion: what no-replies reveal -- 10. Conclusion -- Technical appendix: Surveying an international event through a multinational team -- General data on participants -- Appendix to Chapter 8 on groups and organizations: Clusters obtained by Ascending Hierarchical Clustering -- Questionnaire for participants to the Dakar World Social Forum -- Editor's biographies -- Bibliography -- Index -- Author's names -- Concepts and notions -- Organizations, places and public persons' names.