ABSTRACT
Attac is the acronym for the Association for the Taxation of Financial Transactions and Citizens’ Action (Attac). The Italian branch of Attac is a political alliance that has grown over the last ten years and is tightly linked to other associations worldwide. For the purpose of investigating Attac’s organizational structure, focused on the cycle of protests that has emerged in the present globalized culture. In this age of complex social systems, mobilizations have had the effect of extending the debate about the relations between social movements’ organizations and the political system. Collective identity is placed halfway between structural constrictions and cultural dynamics and is able to recognize opportunities/constraints informed by the political biographies of those involved. This chapter combines the political biographical approach and the social perception paradigm, combining neo-institutionalism theory and the opening of the political opportunity structure perspective with the aim of informing the investigation.
