La construcción de la identidad pública del movimiento antiglobalización en España

Abstract

Since Seattle, the media attention to the antiglobalisation movement has been bound to the issue of public (dis) order. This greater media attention has promoted the consolidation of the movement. It has also increased the political costs of the physical repression of non-violent action and has led to the gradual modiñcation of the authorities responses. In this sense, the locus of contention has moved (or expanded) from the streets to the symbolic domain, to a focus on the process of configuraron of its public identity (or image) through media discourse. This paper inquires into the nature of this process through the analysis of discourses displayed in the news published in El País during the Spanish Presidency of the EU in 2002.