This paper is concerned with how people involved in 'local'protest might come to see
themselves as part of wider social groupings and even global forces of resistance. An
ethnographic study of the No M11 Link Road Campaign in London examines participants'
definitions of their collective identity boundaries at different stages of involvement. Cross-
sectional material from the beginning and later in the campaign shows that there was a
transformation in collective identity boundaries towards a more inclusive definition of …

This paper is concerned with how people involved in'local'protest might come to see
themselves as part of wider social groupings and even global forces of resistance. An
ethnographic study of the No M11 Link Road Campaign in London examines participants'
definitions of their collective identity boundaries at different stages of involvement. Cross-
sectional material from the beginning and later in the campaign shows that there was a
transformation in collective identity boundaries towards a more inclusive definition …