Protest campaigns against large-scale public works usually take place
within a local context. However, since the 1990s new forms of protest
have been emerging. This book analyses two cases from Italy that
illustrate this development: the environmentalist protest campaigns
against the TAV (the building of a new high-speed railway in Val de
Susa, close to the border with France), and the construction of the
Bridge on the Messina Straits (between Calabria and Sicily). Such
mobilizations emerge from local conflicts but develop as part of a
global justice movement, often resulting in the production of new
identities. They are promoted through multiple networks of different
social and political groups, that share common claims and adopt various
forms of protest action. It is during the protest campaigns that a sense
of community is created.