Movement, Globalization and Supranational Institutions at the First European Social Forum

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Notes

1. The complete research results can be found in: Fabio de Nardis, Cittadini globali. Origini e identità dei nuovi movimenti, Roma, Carocci, 2003.

2. Both indexes of locality and globality were based on the participants’ sense of belongings to the local or global dimension of collective life. For example, those interviewed were said to have a high level of locality if they asserted a high or average level sense of belonging to the following four spatial dimensions: ‘my neighbourhood’, ‘my city’, ‘my region’, ‘my nation’. Those interviewed were instead said to have a high level of globality when they affirmed a high or average level sense of belonging to at least two of the following three spatial dimensions intended as global: ‘Europe’, ‘the Mediterranean’, ‘the world’.

3. The index of glocalism resulted from crossing the two previous indexes of locality and globality. Thus an interviewee can be said to be ‘glocal’ when he or she expresses simultaneously a low, medium or high level of locality and globality.

4. It must be noted here that the lower percentage of trust in the UN was conditioned by the approval during the period of the Forum of resolution 1442 by the General Assembly, according greater freedom of action to the USA in the war against Iraq.

5. We speak about a high anti-EU index when the interviewed agrees with all three following modalities as regard to European Union: ‘Decisions are taken by bureaucrats’, ‘EU homologate all regional and local differences’ and ‘EU increases inequalities’.We speak about a high pro-EU level when the interviewed agrees with all three following modalities on European Union: ‘EU can be a bond to multinationals’ power’, ‘EU can be a democratic post-national institution’ and ‘EU can reduce the scissors of social inequalities’.

6. The Europeism index was obtained by crossing different anti-EU and pro-EU levels. Thus the interviewee is pro-Europeist when there is a medium or high pro-EU level.