ABSTRACT
Since the rise of the global justice movement (GJM), a number of surveys have been conducted, particularly on the composition of the social forums. This article examines the main surveys (Fisher, Ibase, Reese, Della Porta, Agrikoliansky and Sommier) and the possibility of their cumulative study, a task that curiously has not been undertaken until now. What do these surveys tell us about the activists’ socio-biological characteristics, political, and organizational affiliations and ideological beliefs? We will see that, despite their common scientific interests, any comparison is delicate because of the methodology used and the way the questions are formulated. The surveys nevertheless paint a homogeneous portrait of the attendees.
