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Chapter 1. Local Conflict between Interest and Identity: an Introduction 1 1. Nimbyism or Social Movements? How to Explain 2 Protest Campaigns 1.1. The Local Dimension 2 1.2. Social Movements and Environmentalism 4 1.3. Resources and Mobilisation 7 1.4. The Political Dimension of the Conflict 9 1.5. Our Research 11 2. Campaigns and Networks: Two Periodisations 13 2.1. The Protest Campaign in Val di Susa 13 2.2. The No Bridge Campaign 22 Chapter 2. Networks and Cross-fertilisation: the Resources of the Protest 31 1. Networks and Cross-fertilisation: an Introduction 31 2. The Role of Local Institutions 34 3. The Role of Environmental Associations 37 4. The Role of Citizens' Committees and the Organisation from Below 40 5. Squatted Social Centres 43 6. Trade Unions and Workers 46 7. Deciding in the Network 49 8. Concluding Remarks 53 Chapter 3. Protest and Identity: the Symbolic Construction of Conflict 57 1. Protest and Identity: an Introduction 57 2. Framing the Identity: Between Localism and Community 58 3. Diagnosis and Prognosis: What Progress? 62 4. Motivational Frames: the Rights of the Community, 70 Mobilisation of the People 5. Concluding Remarks 76 Chapter 4. In Movement: the Repertoires of the Protest 79 1. Repertoires of Protest: an Introduction 79 2. The Construction of Knowledge 81 3. Protests and the Logic of Numbers 86 4. Direct Action and Solidarity 88 5. Protest as an Arena: Site Occupations and Camps 92 6. Multiform Action 96 7. Protest and Communication 99 8. Concluding Remarks 101 Chapter 5: Voices of the Valley, Voices of the Straits: a Conclusion 106